Today, we’re going to show you how you can use the Garmin companion
application STR3AMUP!™ for the Garmin Instinct® Esports watch
The application enables you to include real time body metrics from your watch
into video game streams and recordings
To begin, we will be using a third party streaming tool application
These are usually free software platform that is mainly used by steamers and content creators
In this video will be assuming that you
already have a basic knowledge of these types of applications
Once your streaming tool application is installed and setup,
you will see a layout similar to what you see on screen now
The background would show the game being played with the streamer in the lower right corner
Next, open the Garmin STR3AMUP!™ application
If you do not already have the application you can go to the download link below
When you open the application for the first time, you will need to accept the terms and conditions
Here, the application will search for your Instinct® Esports watch
In order for the application to find your watch,
we will need to start the Esports activity on your watch
On the watch, press the GPS button to open the activity list
Then, select Esports by pressing the GPS button a second time
Now, the STR3AMUP!™ application will list your watch
If you do not see your watch,
make sure that Bluetooth® is enabled and click on the refresh button
Then, select your watch and click “OK” to proceed
Once you have connected the watch, you will see the main screen of the STR3AMUP!™ application
This is where we will configure what and how you want to show your body metric data
You will get a choice of three different values: Heart Rate, Stress and Body Battery
On the right side we have a little preview window that gives you an idea of what it will look like
Keep in mind that the actual positioning and resizing happens in the streaming tool
In this example, you can choose to show heart rate, stress and body battery
Or, you can choose to only show one or two of these select-able values
Then, you can choose how you want to show this data
You have different variants available
For example, if you want to position it here at the bottom,
you can choose this one here on the left side
You can also customize the font and background colors
This is all that is needed to get started for a simple data overlay section
You can toggle the background color to see
how the data will look on both lighter and darker backgrounds
Once you are happy with the look, click “Create Overlay”
Then, a small controls menu window will appear
As a helpful tip, if you click “Close” it will take you back to the full menu
The other small window above the control menu is our important values window
It has a green background so that we can get a green-screen effect
This creates transparency in the streaming tool
Now, we will add the STR3AMUP!™ window into the streaming tool
In the streaming tool application, click on the “+” under “Sources”
Then, select “Window Capture”
Here, we will name the window capture “Values”
On the next screen, the window should be automatically selected to STR3AMUP!™ values
If not, you can select it from the drop down menu
It is also important to set the Window Match Priority to “Window title must match”
This will allow stream tool application to automatically find the window when
you start the application again and you will not need to set it back up
Then, click “OK”
Now, the value window will be present within your
streaming tool application where you can position or resize it
You will also notice that the body metric data is live, but your background is still green
To change this, right click on the value window
Select “Filters” at the bottom
Now, click on the “+” on the bottom left and select “Chroma Key”
Then, “OK” to finish
Here, you can adjust the value window’s opacity, contrast and more
Once this is set to your preference select “Close”
Back on the main screen of your streaming tool application,
we can re-position and resize the value data
From here you can choose “Start Streaming” to begin your stream showing real time Garmin data
If you decide that you want to change the data,
open the controls menu and click “Close” to open the full STR3AMUP!™ window
You can easily select a different style of layout, or change the values as we completed earlier
Now that we have our data all set up, we can go a step further by adding overlays
For example, on the right side there are a set of thresholds for heart rate, stress and body battery
If we selected the broken heart here for the heart rate overlay,
and the user’s heart rate goes above 100, it would show on the video stream
Once the heart rate drops below the threshold, the image would be removed
For both heart rate and stress, the user would need to go above the threshold to display
the overlay, while the body battery would need to go below the threshold
Now, we can set the overlay images and thresholds
First, choose the icon you would like to display and then set the threshold
Repeat this for each overlay that you would like to display
You can also use the hotkey selection to trigger video
filters or sound effects from other third party applications
To include the overlays into your stream, click “Create Overlay”
You will notice that we now have more small windows for each threshold
In this video we will show you the process for setting up one of the thresholds,
as the process will be the same for each one
Now, we will go back into your streaming tool application to set up the heart rate
threshold window data into your streaming tool
In the streaming tool application click on the “+” under “Sources”
Then, select “Window Capture”
Here we will name our window capture “Heart Rate”
On the next screen, we will need to change the window
selection to “Heart Rate” from the drop down menu
As previously mentioned, it is also important to set the
Window Match Priority to “Window title must match”
This will allow stream tool application to automatically find the window when
you start the application again, and you will not need to set it back up
Then click “OK”
Back on the main screen of the streaming tool application,
we can re-position and resize the overlay
Next, right-click on the overlay
Select "Filters" at the bottom
Again, click on the "+" on the bottom left, and select "Chroma Key", then "OK"
Once the image settings are to your preference, select "Close"
An important note here is that the threshold image will automatically
display by default to allow us to position it
Once you have found a home for all of the images,
we need to disable the overlay preview on the controls window by selecting “OFF”
You can toggle this back on later to re-position the images
Next, let’s set up an animated frame that will display every time a threshold is triggered
To begin, we need to reopen the full STR3AMUP!™ menu by selecting “Close” in the controls window
Under the animated frame section, select the check mark to enable it
You may also change the frame color and thickness using the on screen selections
Once done, select “Create Overlay” to set up the frame in your streaming tool application
Follow the same steps we completed before to add the image to sources
Now that your frame is added, you can position it to your preference
Another tip here is you can hold the shift key to stretch the frame
Once you are done, you can click “Start Streaming” to begin your stream showing real time Garmin data
And that is it!
Thanks for watching!
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