Livepush offers a minimal multi-chat overlay you can use to bring your live stream chats and comments in real-time from platforms including Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and Trovo. You can also style your chat overlay by picking themes, background color/transparency, and a few more settings to make it look like your own.
Requirements
Access to either Facebook, YouTube, Twitch or Trovo accounts.
A Livepush account.
Step by step guide
Setting your Multi chat overlay is pretty easy to begin with. Let's walk through the steps.
1- Sign in to your Livepush account (if you don't have one, create your Free Account.
2- Go to your Dashboard Home and click on your stream card i.e. Live Input or Pre-recorded live stream.
3- In the Stream Dashboard page, make sure you have connected your destinations that you want to bring chats and comments from and that they are turned-ON with the ON/OFF switch next to each destination.
To connect YouTube, see How to stream live to YouTube with Livepush
To connect Facebook, see How to stream live to Facebook with Livepush
To connect Twitch, see How to stream live to Twitch with Livepush
To connect Trovo, see How to stream live to Trovo with Livepush
Chat Support: For the moment, Livepush supports retrieving live chats and comments from YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Trovo. We shall add more platforms soon.
4- Now from the same Stream Dashboard page, select Multi Chat tab from the left menu.
5- From Multi Chat page, you can copy your Multi chat overlay URL and can also style the chat the way you like.
6- Once you are done styling your Multi chat, copy the Multi chat overlay URL and open the URL in a new tab in your browser to see the chats appearing.
Great Job! you have successfully configured your Multi Chat overlay that is now ready to help interacting your viewers with you and the community.
Next, you will be using this Multi Chat overlay URL into your OBS Studio to put the chat on top of your video content to pull the chats in real-time and show them as a part of your live video streaming. That is where the real magic will happen.
If you need any help in any step over the course or need improvements to the article, please do not hesitate to contact us via our Live chat support.
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