I wanted to live stream my personal honeybee hive to YouTube. Here it is:

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1 April 17, 2017 Broadcast your IP Camera Live Stream to YouTube, Windows 10/64 Step by step instructions. Background: I wanted to live stream my personal honeybee hive to YouTube. Here it is: Requirements: 1. IP camera with native RTSP and RTMP feeds. Although you may not need it, I wanted night IR, Pan and Zoom camera features. After some false starts and testing a few cameras from Amazon, I settled on a Dericam PTZ IP Camera, Model S1 for $ Download and install the VLC media player. My version is Weatherwax. This is available as a free download Obviously, you need to have a YouTube account, so register & set one up if you don t already have one. 4. Finally, download and install the free Open Broadcasting System (OBS) latest version. Step 1 Set up your camera. Follow your camera s setup procedures. After finishing, your camera should have a local IP address ( ) and have some basic settings. Here is what mine looks like:

2 Your settings may be different, but be sure that your camera has an IP address. There should be some video settings, and these are important for smooth streaming to YouTube. This is what my settings look like:

3 The key settings for streaming are the Bitrate and the Frame Rate. You may need to play with these setting to get the results you want. For best results, your camera should be on a high speed wired connection, but that was not possible for my purposes so I have my camera connected via WiFi which sometimes makes my YouTube live stream a bit choppy. Step 2 VLC, confirm RTSP camera feed. Different IP camera s may have different RTSP feed strings for VLC, but every camera s customer support team should be able to provide you with a connection string to stream your camera s feed locally to your installed VLC player. You cannot continue if you cannot see your camera s feed in your installed VLC player. Here s my Dericam connection string: rtsp://admin:password@ :554/11. Your login [admin:password] will be different, as will your camera s IP address. The standard RTSP port protocol is 554, so that probably won t change. My camera s stream is 11 (meaning camera 1). Once you have your camera s RTSP connection string, here s how you set up VLC:

4 Start VLC Click the Media dropdown menu Select Open Network Stream and enter your RTSP connection string from step 2.

5 Click Play. You should see your camera s live stream. If you don t, check your connection string. Work with your camera s customer support until you can successfully stream your camera to your VLC player. Step 3 Set up YouTube Live Stream. Go to your YouTube Live Dashboard and enter all your stream s basic information. Be sure to review Advanced Settings. Copy your Encoder Setup to a text document on your computer you will need this information to set up your Open Broadcasting System (OBS).

6 Step 4 Set up Open Broadcasting System (OBS). Start OBS Studio. Be sure that View, Listboxes is checked so you see the + sign in the Sources box.

7 Click the + in Sources and select VLC Video Source in the dropdown menu.

8 You can name your source anything you want I left it as the default VLC Video Source. Check Make source visible. Click OK, and the property window will be displayed.

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10 Click the + sign on the right, and select Add Path/URL. A model window will display where you will add your camera s RTSP connection string from step 2. Click OK and your connected properties window will appear with your camera s stream playing.

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12 If you had multiple camera s and multiple streams, you would continue to add them here. Loop Playlist checkbox would then loop through all your different streams. I only have one camera, so the Loop Playlist checkbox is disregarded. Click OK to exit the properties window. Click on Settings on the right.

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14 Click on Stream on the Left to enter your YouTube Live Stream credentials. Click OK. Click on Output.

15 Note the Video Bitrate. I find my streaming works best when this closely matches the bitrate you set for your camera in step 1. I also find the Encoder Preset setting veryfast works best for me. Your settings may change, and you should both test and experiment with various settings. You should also check the various settings in Video and Advanced to further customize your live stream. Click OK to return to the main OBS dashboard.

16 Use the Red Framing outline to drag your streaming output to your desired window size. Click Start Streaming to start streaming to YouTube. In a few delay seconds you should be live streaming!