This article goes over the steps on how to add a Facebook profile, page, or group as a custom RTMP to your Switchboard Cloud Account. 

Watch the step-by-step videos below:

• How to Add Facebook as a Custom RTMP into Switchboard Cloud. 
• How To Go Live to a Facebook Destination as Custom RTMP in Switchboard Cloud.

Important Notes: 

1. When you GO LIVE using this method, you must FIRST open Facebook Live Producer, and then start sending the stream from Switchboard Cloud. The order of these steps is important so that Facebook knows to expect an incoming stream. 

 

2. If you have applied a Switchboard Template to your destination group, the Title and Description contents will not publish to any Custom RTMP destinations. You can however manually add the Title and Description contents on the left-hand panel inside of Facebook Live Producer.

 

Open Facebook Live Producer or click this link: Facebook Live Producer

STEP 2

On the left side panel, choose the appropriate Facebook profile, page, or group.

STEP 3

Make sure Use Stream Key is selected.

STEP 4

In the middle panel scroll down to the Streaming Set up.

STEP 5

Enable User Persistent Stream Key.

Step 6

In the Facebook Live Stream Set-up Panel, copy the Server URL and Stream key and paste them into appropriate fields inside of Switchboard Cloud.

Read this article to learn how to Add a Custom RTMP Destination to your Switchboard Cloud Account.

Add the Facebook Destination as a Custom RTMP into your Destination Group.

When it is time to Go Live

STEP 1

FIRST, OPEN Facebook Live producer BEFORE sending the video from Switchboard.

STEP 2

Open Switchboard Cloud, when the video is present in the confidence monitor, start streaming to the Facebook Custom RTMP destination. 

STEP 3

Once the video is showing in the Facebook Live Preview window, you can press the GO LIVE button located in the lower left-hand corner.

PART 1:

How to Add Facebook as a Custom RTMP into Switchboard Cloud. 

PART 2

How To Go Live to a Facebook Destination as Custom RTMP in Switchboard Cloud.

HAPPY MULTISTREAMING!