What are Stream Groups, and why do you need one in your Switchboard account?
One of the essential features required for multistreaming in your Switchboard account is setting up destination groups. You can add your social channels (such as YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, etc.) for multistreaming, add and apply stream titles and descriptions, and select destinations for live streaming.
This support article will teach you how to create a stream group in your Switchboard Cloud account. You can add destinations and set up your group so that you can go live.
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Add a Destination Group to your workflow.
It is possible to add multiple groups of destinations to your workflow. This feature can be useful if you have many destinations saved to your Switchboard account and want to keep them organized. Grouping destinations is particularly useful when multiple team members work on the same Switchboard account.
To add a destination group, click the Create a Group button.
A pop-up window will open.
Give the Group a Name.
Click Save and Next.
Add Destinations
The Destinations sub-menu will open.
- Click the Connect More button.
- Choose the Platform type from the menu.
- Follow the Prompts for logging in.
- Complete the steps until you reach the Success Window.
Repeat the steps to connect more social channels to your Switchboard account.
- Note that these steps are needed to connect social channels the first time you set up your Switchboard account.
Choose platform type.
We'll choose YouTube in this example.
Once we've finished adding the social channels to the Stream Group, we'll click Save and Next.
Add Custom RTMP Destinations
Check out this resource for connecting RTMP destinations to your Switchboard account.
Adding Multiple Stream Groups to your Workflow
You can build up your workflow by adding multiple Stream Groups.
Simply click the Add Group button at the top of the workflow.
- Give the Group a Name.
- Click Save and Next.
- Add Destinations to the group by toggling on the destinations you've already connected to your Switchboard account; you won't need to log in again or reauthorize these social channels.
- Click Save & Next.
- Edit the stream titles.
- Click Submit.
We've successfully created another group on the workflow, along with the destinations we've activated for the group.
Delete Stream Group
Removing it from the workflow is easy if you no longer want to keep a group in your workflow.
- Click the pencil icon to open the Group Editor.
- Select Delete Group in the new window.
- Confirm your selection.
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