Settings is where you tell the router what kind of stream rig you have. It also holds the guided setup, dashboard login, backups, updates, header chips, quick links and community help.

Open Settings from the gear icon in the dashboard. Most sections are folded cards. Open the card you need, change the fields, then press Save settings.

Press Guided setup if you are not sure which boxes matter. On a brand new router the dashboard opens Set up your stream first instead of dropping you into the full Settings page.

The wizard asks one plain question at a time:

1. What sends the video to this router? Choose Android devices with the StreamHelpers.com Companion app, A phone or a camera on its own, A Director Mini, or A computer running OBS.
2. Where does your location come from? This appears unless the Companion is already your director. Choose Companion GPS, a USB GPS receiver, or no GPS for now.
3. How should your connections be used? Choose SRTLA or Just one connection.
4. Do you want OBS in the middle? Choose No, keep it simple or Yes, run it through OBS.
5. Where does your stream end up? Choose Restream.io, your own Restreamer, both, or straight to one platform.
6. Tailscale on this router. This is an instruction screen, not a saved setting. It shows whether Tailscale is running and how to switch it on.
7. The machine at the far end. This appears only when your answers need one: SRTLA, self-hosted Restreamer, or both. Choose Set one up now or I already have one.
8. AI assistant. Optional. Pick a provider and key, or leave it off.
9. Here's your setup. Check the summary, then press Save my setup.

Use Back, Next, Skip, I'll use Settings and Save my setup at the bottom. After saving, use Open the dashboard, All settings or Run it again.

The wizard merges into your existing setup. It does not erase settings it never asked about. A blank password or API-key field means “keep what is already saved”, not “clear it”.

If the wizard says you need a receiver or Restreamer, it gives you one command:

wget -qO- https://streamhelpers.com/receiver | sh

Paste it into the server or machine you will use. It asks nothing, installs the receiver, Restreamer, backup stream and Tailscale together as one container, and prints the address of the receiver's own settings page. Add a Tailscale key on that page and it shows one line starting IRLCFG- (on a machine that already has a receiver, the command prints that line straight away). Paste the line into the wizard and press Apply. It fills in the receiver address, Restreamer API address, port and login. The full guide is Your own streaming server.

The SRTLA receiver address must be a real public address. Do not use a Tailscale address for bonded video. Restreamer's API address is the opposite: use its Tailscale address when you can, because that is only a control link.

The Tailscale — reach this rig from anywhere card does not save anything into the dashboard. It reads the router's own Tailscale state and tells you how to turn it on.

Use it for:

• opening the dashboard from your phone over mobile data;
• giving a remote producer a private Tailscale share;
• reaching cameras that are not on this router's Wi-Fi;
• reaching your Restreamer and receiver from the road;
• reaching OBS on another computer.

The card shows a copyable dashboard address when Tailscale is running. Press Copy to copy it.

To switch Tailscale on:

1. Create a free Tailscale account.
2. Open the router's admin page.
3. Go to Applications → Tailscale.
4. Switch it on and press Apply.
5. Press Device Bind Link, sign in, and press Connect.
6. Reload Settings.

Tailscale is for dashboard controls, Restreamer controls and remote cameras. Your bonded video still goes to the receiver's public address. A tunnel would collapse all modems into one path and defeat bonding.

The Menu bar card chooses which tabs appear. Turning a tab off removes it from the dashboard. It does not stop that feature if it is already running.

Some tabs also need settings before they appear:

Go Live and Settings cannot be hidden.

These cards describe the equipment and services the dashboard can control.

Pro multi-platform chat shows the Chat tab for Pro Chat. It is only the router-side switch. Finish platform sign-in inside the Chat tab. See Pro Chat.

Fill OBS computer address, OBS WebSocket port and OBS WebSocket password to show the OBS tab. In OBS, use Tools → WebSocket Server Settings → Show Connect Info.

The address must be reachable from the device viewing the dashboard. A phone on this router's Wi-Fi may not be able to reach an OBS computer on another network unless you use Tailscale.

Fill Director Mini IP to show the Director Mini tab. Use Auto-scan network or press Find it in the setup wizard if you do not know the address. The username defaults to Admin. Leave the password blank only if the Mini still uses its built-in default.

Tick Use Android devices with the StreamHelpers.com Companion app to show the Companion tab. The app finds the router by itself once the Android device is on the router's Wi-Fi.

What the devices do chooses between:

• GPS + connection sharing - the Director Mini or OBS still does the video.
• Director - one device takes cameras in over RTMP, adds the overlay, sends HEVC over SRT; the rest are failover encoders.

Bluetooth for the cameras chooses whether a USB Bluetooth dongle or a Companion device handles camera Bluetooth setup.

See Companion and choosing a phone.

How are your modems bonded? is either SRTLA - built in, free or No bonding - single connection.

SRTLA splits video across all usable uplinks. It needs a receiver at the far end. No bonding still leaves the Bonding tab available as a place to find the router's SRT and RTMP input addresses. See Router and Bonding.

Where does your stream go? decides which publishing tabs appear:

• Not set — no Restreamer or Restream.io tab.
• Self-hosted Restreamer (datarhei) - your own server — shows Restreamer when a Core API address or Web UI URL is filled.
• Restream.io - cloud multistreaming — shows Restream.io.
• Both - Restreamer on your server, fanning out through Restream.io — shows both. Your encoder should still point at one place: Restreamer.

Use Sign up for Restream.io if you need a Restream account. See Publishing.

Core API address is the API the router talks to. Do not include /ui at the end. The Tailscale picker can fill it as http://TAILNET-IP:8080.

Username and Password are the Restreamer login. Web UI URL is usually the same address with /ui/ added, and is what appears inside the dashboard. Allow high-resolution server preview decoding is only for high-resolution sources when the receiver has enough decoding power.

Most people leave Client ID, Client secret and Redirect URI alone. Restream.io sign-in now happens from the Publishing tab with a Connect button. These fields remain for streamers who already use their own Restream developer application.

AI provider turns on AI buttons. API key is your own key from that provider. Model can be left blank or filled after Load models. API URL is only for Other (OpenAI-compatible).

The same key powers Diagnostics Ask AI, GPS place explanations, AI trivia writing, jokes and other AI features. You pay the provider directly. The key is stored on the router and is only sent to the provider when you press an AI button.

Spare tab URL and Spare tab label add one extra iframe tab for something you already host elsewhere, such as a scoreboard.

The Links tab card builds the dashboard's Links tab. The tab appears only when Quick links or Buttons that ask first has at least one line.

Write one button per line:

Label | https://example.com/

Quick links open directly. The default list includes YouTube Studio, Twitch, Kick, Facebook Live, Rumble, X Producer and Instagram.

Buttons that ask first use the same format but show a yes/no box before opening. Use those for links that do something as soon as they load, such as a webhook or crew alert.

The dashboard ships with the login off. On a private router Wi-Fi that is convenient. If you share the dashboard, turn it on first.

In Dashboard login:

1. Type a Username.
2. Type a Password.
3. Type Password again.
4. Usually leave Don't ask on the router's own WiFi ticked.
5. Press Save settings.

Any password is accepted. Clearing the username switches the login off. Changing the password signs out every device that chose Stay signed in on this device.

When the login is on, the sign-in page asks for Username, Password, and Stay signed in on this device, then uses Sign in. Remembered sign-ins last for 30 days unless you change the password.

The login is skipped on the router's own LAN only when Don't ask on the router's own WiFi is ticked. It is still required over Tailscale, public share links and anything not on the router's own network.

For the security rules behind this, see Keeping your rig secure.

Settings does not create share links directly, but it points you at the two places that do.

Open the Router tab and use Share with someone not on your Tailscale. Press Create a public link. If Tailscale Funnel is not approved yet, press Turn on Funnel for this router first, then come back and press Create a public link again.

Use Copy public link to hand the address to a helper. Use New link — cuts off the old one to replace it, or Stop sharing to turn it off.

This link gives full dashboard access to anyone who has it. Set a dashboard password first. See Router and Bonding.

Open the Trivia, Polls or Jokes tab and use Share with a helper. Press Turn on. The card gives one link that opens Trivia, Polls and Jokes only. The helper can write questions, run polls and fire jokes. They do not get your AI key, overlay builders or the rest of the dashboard.

Use Copy, Email or Send… to share it. Use Turn off to cut helpers off at once, or New link to kill the old link and make a fresh one.

See Audience games.

The StreamHelpers Pro card opens Pro status, pair or manage….

On the Pro page:

• Pair this router opens StreamHelpers in a new tab so you can approve pairing.
• Resume pairing appears if a pairing is waiting for you to finish.
• Manage on StreamHelpers opens your Pro account page.
• Unpair this router switches Pro features off on this router. Your subscription and platform accounts stay on StreamHelpers.
• Learn more about Pro opens the Pro feature list.

Pro can enable Pro Chat, the hosted live map, removing the StreamHelpers.com overlay mark, Motion & g-force, Pro Companion layouts and talkback. See Pro features.

The Header chips card opens Choose header chips…. Chips are the readings across the top of every tab. See Header chips.

Use Backup & restore before updates, before experiments and before moving to another router.

Press Download backup to save one JSON file. By default, passwords and API keys are left out, so the file is safer to keep in cloud storage or send to a helper.

Tick Include passwords and API keys only when you understand the risk. A backup with secrets should be treated like a password.

Press Restore from a backup… to import a file. Restoring overwrites this router's settings. Redacted secrets in the file leave the router's current secret values alone.

The backup includes the Settings screen, SRTLA receiver/interface choices, timer design, theme-park settings, overlay builder preferences, hidden-overlay choices, header chips, overlay designs, and your macros with the Macros tab's settings. It does not include the router's own internal login signing key, Moblink pairing, the fixed SRT input port, or live timer state.

To move a setup to another router:

1. On the old router, open Settings → Backup & restore.
2. Press Download backup.
3. If you want passwords and API keys moved too, tick Include passwords and API keys before downloading and store the file carefully.
4. On the new router, install the dashboard.
5. Open Settings → Backup & restore.
6. Press Restore from a backup… and choose the file.
7. Check the Dashboard login, Tailscale, receiver address, camera addresses and overlays before going live.

The System update card shows Installed, Latest and Checked. It also shows release highlights, Full release notes, Check now, Update now and Tell me when there is a new version.

Always download a backup first. Then see Updating the dashboard for the full update steps.

If a tab sends you to Settings with a repair request, the same card may show Reinstall now even when you are already up to date. Reinstalling the same version puts missing helper files back and keeps your settings.

The Help & community card has Wiki and Community support.

Questions, bug reports and feature requests go through the StreamHelpers Discord from the support page. There is no live, phone or email support, including for Pro subscribers.

Credits & licences… opens the credits page. The router also ships the licence notices in its licences folder.