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Welcome back once again
to the Gaming Careers YouTube channel.
My name is Pete, and today we're going to be talking
about a controller to control aspects
of your livestream that you can run on your mobile phone.
So you won't need to Alt Tab back to the streaming software,
you can do things like going live,
switching scenes, enabling and disabling sources,
or muting your mic right from your mobile phone.
We're going to be covering it in detail,
and how to set it up in this video
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So this app is available both on iOS and Android.
It's completely free, and as I said,
it's built by Streamlabs.
So the kind of things it lets you do are things like
going live, starting and stopping the recording,
swapping scenes, enabling and disabling certain sources
that are in those scenes, muting your audio,
as well as changing your overall design if you wish to.
I'm just going to give a quick demo as to how it works.
So as you can see, I have Streamlabs OBS
running on my computer, this is running on my phone.
If I wanted to, say, change scene
from my starting soon scene which I'm on right now
to my intermission, I just click the button
and it swaps scene.
Now, here you can see I've quite a lot going on,
I've got quite a lot of different sources
enabled on this scene.
If I just wanted to disable my camera, I just click camera,
my camera goes, click it again, and it comes back.
Super simple, instant in terms of how quickly it works,
and it's a great little controller,
absolutely free, that you can use on your livestreams.
So obviously the main advantage for this
is that you never actually need to physically
Alt + Tab to Streamlabs OBS on your computer
to be able to do these things.
You can just do them from your phone
which could be on a little stand,
or it just could be next to your keyboard,
and the screen stays awake throughout
when you have the remote open,
so you don't need to worry about unlocking your phone
or something like that.
It stays awake the whole time
so it's really quick and easy to use,
and obviously the main advantage is that it's free.
Now, one of the obvious comparisons
people are going to be making between the app
is with the Elgato Stream Deck.
And I've got to say it's nowhere near as customizable
as something like the Stream Deck is, as you would expect.
The Stream Deck is a premium product,
you can use it with a variety of different applications
outside of streaming as well, things like editing programs.
It's completely customizable, you can change
what each button does, how it looks.
This is just the basics,
so it just does Streamlabs OBS controls
for different scenes, different sources,
muting your mic, like I would call it the essentials
but obviously it's free so you're not going to get
the same level of performance as you would
out of a Stream Deck, but it's a really great alternative
for those of you that maybe can't afford a stream deck
or are saving up and just want to get your hands
on a little controller right away.
The other major thing to note is that the application
only works with controlling Streamlabs OBS,
not regular OBS studio.
So Streamlabs have built this application
for your iPhone or for your Android devices
and it only controls Streamlabs OBS.
So if you haven't yet tried out Streamlabs OBS,
I have a link in the top of the description
where you can download the software
and you'll need that for the next step
which is downloading and installing the app on your phone.
So now you should have Streamlabs OBS
installed on your computer, so if on your phone
you head to the App Store or Play Store
and search for Streamlabs,
you should find the app that you need to download.
On the App Store it's called Streamlabs Stream Live,
so click to download that, and I'll just give
a brief description as to what the app does,
'cause it does more than just the remote control feature.
It's actually been built from the ground up
to be an IRL streaming, so you can stream
from your mobile phone and your mobile phone camera.
So we're only going to be doing a small subset of that,
as in we're going to be looking just at the remote control.
So we're going to be skipping a lot of the functionality
but you might get some requests for permissions
as we install the app,
to allow it to use the camera and microphone
'cause it's been built as an IRL streaming app.
Once it's installed, you should be able to launch it,
and you should be greeted with a login screen here.
It's going to be in landscape,
'cause the whole app is built to be in landscape mode.
You need to log in either with your Twitch or YouTube,
Mixer, Facebook, whichever platform
you're going to be streaming to, and whichever platform
is linked to your Streamlabs account.
For the majority of you,
and for me as well, that's Twitch.
If I click log in with Twitch it's going to give me a form
to log in and as well as the authentication
if you haven't already done that for Streamlabs.
So just enter those details
and I'll see you at the next screen.
So again, when you launch it,
you're probably going to see a screen that asks you
to enable the camera and the microphone.
This is if you wanted to use it for IRL streaming.
It's not necessary if you're just going to be using it
for the remote control, but enable them if you're going
to be thinking about doing any IRL streams,
and then the next screen is going to ask you
to enable some widgets for the IRL stream.
Again, not necessary, so you can just click next
and then finally get started, and it should take you
to a screen which has a camera view.
So you can see here, here's my Streamlabs OBS
and that's where I'm recording my videos,
but we're actually interested in setting up
the remote control, so if you hit the little hamburger
in the top corner and then go to remote control,
you can see it gives you a space to scan a QR Code.
Now, in Streamlabs OBS on your computer,
you want to come up here to the Settings menu,
down to remote control, and you can see here's a QR code.
So line it up with your phone, click to show,
and it should sync, and there you go.
I have all the controls ready on my phone,
and that will completely control Streamlabs OBS.
If I want to swap to my intermission scene,
I just click it, and there's my intermission scene.
If I want to hide my social media or my camera,
it's as simple as that.
Once it's set up, it's forever linked,
and it'll stay on this screen.
It won't dim down or lock your device,
as long as you have Streamlabs OBS open.
A couple of things to note about the app
is that it shows the sources
depending on which scene you have selected.
So right now I'm on my intermission scene,
and you can see I have quite a few different sources enabled
but if I just went to my stream starting soon scene,
I only have the one source which is just
the video background that's looping.
So it will always show the sources
that are enabled and disabled in that scene.
So if we go back to the intermission one,
you can see it updates with all the different sources
that exist inside that scene.
One of the improvements I would love Streamlabs
to make on the app is the ability
to be able to rearrange the icons here,
'cause these are set in a default order,
and you can't rearrange them.
So what annoys me about this is this muting the mic,
or muting your desktop audio, these are both options
that are at the very very bottom of the button list.
I'd love to be able to move those up to the top
as those are really handy functions
to be able to have right at your fingertips,
if you need to cough, or if somebody comes into your room,
or something like that,
and you just want to mute your mic very very quickly.
One handy thing to think about is if you have an iPad
or an Android tablet with a bigger screen than your phone,
you can of course install this application on a tablet
instead and you will have more buttons at your fingertips,
without needing to scroll around.
So hopefully for those of you that are using Streamlabs OBS,
you are now set up with your own little controller.
I'm not by any means saying that this is
a replacement for the Stream Deck.
For me the Stream Deck just has way, way more functionality,
and it's just so much easier to use,
but I understand that it is out of some people's price point
and this is just a really simple way to get started
with Streamlabs OBS and being able to up your production
level by not having to Alt + Tab to your software,
and just control things from your phone instead.
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