Singular and LiveU Solo

Follow

You can set your LiveU Destination to RTMP and send it to Lightstream in order to add your Singular overlays on top of your live video.

A - Log into Lightstream Studio

Log into your Lightstream account or sign up at golightstream.com

B - Add "RTMP Source" Layer in Lightstream (for your LiveU video)

Add an "RTMP Source" Layer

Get ready to copy the Ingest Key and Stream Key to paste into LiveU. The "Copy" button is designated for copying the Stream Key and the "Copy Ingest URL" text is to copy the Ingest Key.

RTMP Ingest and Stream Keys in Lightstream

C - Prepare the "RTMP Generic" Destination in LiveU 

Choose the "RTMP Generic" Destination option in LiveU, give your Destination a name, set the Profile size, and paste in your Ingest Key and Stream Key from Lightstream. You can ignore the "Secondary Ingress URL" box. 

Make sure to set your Profile to 720p at 30fps at most. Setting a higher quality will require a paid subscription level in Lightstream.

Prepare LiveU RTMP Settings

Prepare LiveU RTMP Settings

D - Select "GO LIVE" in LiveU

Now that all the RTMP settings are ready, select the "GO LIVE" button in the upper right corner to start going live with your video.

Selecting "GO LIVE" button

When the RTMP it fully live, "Now LIVE" this will appear in red under your device in the upper left corner:

"Now LIVE" will appear under your device

Now that your LiveU video is LIVE, the video should appear within Lightstream. It may take a few minutes for the RTMP source to be received in Lightstream.

LiveU RTMP Video Source Received in Lightstream

E - Add Singular Overlays into Lightstream (via 3rd Party Integration)

Now that your video feed is looking good, you're ready to add your Singular overlays. The next step is to click the plus (+) button next to LAYERS, select 3rd Party Integrations, and choose Singular.live.

Adding Layer, Choosing 3rd Party Integrations

Choosing SINGULAR.LIVE

Singular.live Layer Added

Now that you've added your Singular.Live layer, you'll have to paste in your Output URL. Jump back over to your Studio show that you've prepared, hit the clipboard button in the upper right to copy the Output URL.

Finally, paste it into the Singular Output URL space in Lightstream.

Pasting Output URL into Lightstream Layer

Note that the Singular.live logo in the center only appears when this layer is selected in Lightstream. Choose the RTMP layer and see that it disappears. It will not appear in the live output.

F - Stream to Destination!

Your LiveU video is being sent to Livestream and your Singular overlays have been added. You're ready to stream this live sandwich to your desired destination by hitting "GO LIVE" in the upper right corner of Lightstream.