Stream Directly to Facebook from a PTZ Cam
Did you know that our cameras can stream directly to Facebook??? Check this out to find out how.
In this episode of Back to Basics we demonstrate how to live stream directly to Facebook using a PTZOptics camera. You can now live stream to multiple destinations inside of Facebook including: your personal page, a page you manage a Facebook group or an event. So you have quite a few options for live streaming to Facebook and any of these destinations are reachable via a custom RTMP streaming key given from Facebook. The basics of live streaming to Facebook with a PTZOptics camera involves entering the Facebook RTMP streaming key into your PTZOptics IP camera interface.
Once you have your Facebook Live RTMP live streaming information you can insert that into the PTZOptics IP camera interface. Facebook will give you a RTMP Server Name and Secret Stream Key. Unlike YouTube which allows users to gain an unchanging stream key they can use over and over again, Facebook always generates unique keys for live streaming. The Server is always the same so you can always simply take the Facebook Server information and type "/" slash the stream key to enter the full streaming destination into your camera.
Before we set up our camera it's a good idea to plug in a microphone so that you can embed audio into your live stream. You will have to check the audio and video boxes along with the "on" button for your RTMP stream directly inside the IP interface of the camera. Once you have entered in your Facebook stream key and checked all the correct buttons click "apply". Once apply has been clicked you can go ahead and reboot the camera. Once the camera has been rebooted it will have a start up dance and once initialized it will start streaming to this destination.
Facebook has fetched the live stream
Once Facebook has fetched the live stream you can go ahead and click "Go Live". From here you are ready to start live streaming on Facebook! Have fun!
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