StreamHelpers.com Wiki

Guides for the IRL Dashboard, the Companion app, the SRTLA receiver and StreamHelpers Pro, written and kept up to date by the people who use them.

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The router dashboard runs your whole IRL rig from a GL.iNet router: bonding, cameras, overlays, chat and going live.

• Dashboard overview: every tab, and where its guide is
• Settings: setting up, the setup guide, backups and moving to another router
• Going live: the Stream status tab, resetting for the next stream, and the backup stream
• The header: the chips across the top of every tab
• Router and bonding: connections, signal, and bonding them together
• Cameras: DJI, SJCAM, streaming from a phone, and the Director Mini
• Publishing: Restreamer, Restream.io and OBS
• Restreamer vs Restream.io: what each does, and whether you need one or both
• GPS and weather: position, maps, weather, clock, timers and theme parks
• Pro Chat: combined chat, the host view, featured messages and chat alerts
• Audience games: trivia, polls, closest guess, the emoji meter, jokes and What am I looking at?
• Overlay control: switching overlays on and off, designing your own, and getting them into your encoder
• Overlay reference: every overlay, what it does and its settings
• Diagnostics: what the router sees, and asking AI about a problem
• Updating the dashboard
• Keeping your rig secure
• When an update or a router goes wrong

The Android app that turns phones into cameras, a director, and extra bonded connections.

• Companion app help: every screen and every button
• When the Companion warns you: heat, battery, Wi-Fi and memory
• Choosing a phone

The server your bonded stream lands on before it goes to Twitch, YouTube, Kick or anywhere else.

• Your own streaming server: four steps, one command
• Renting a server
• Running the receiver on Unraid

An optional subscription on top of the free dashboard.

• StreamHelpers Pro: what it adds, pairing a router, your account, and what happens offline
• Pro features: Pro Chat, the Live Map, overlays without the mark, Motion & g-force, and the Companion's Pro layouts and talkback
• Pro Live Map: a public page showing where you are

• How support works: Discord, voting, and the Trusted members
• Rules
• Editing this wiki: how to get edit access, and the style we write in
• Source code: it isn't published, and that isn't up for debate

The software is free and provided as-is, with no warranty. See the disclaimer and the credits and licences.