Hey folks,
Here is another update about HiveStreams.Live
Announcing another new, much anticipated feature!
Streamers can now press a button to make a quick and easy and editable "Going Live Now!" announcement auto-post to their Hive Blogs when going live!
For the moment, its just a pretty basic template, like this real auto-posted example right here!
Each post has your HSL Channel cover photo and profile photo, with the rest of this early draft version of the feature looking like my personal example linked above.
In the future, I will make it possible to completely style your own template, title, tagline, keywords, and so on for these in your channel settings and check a channel settings option box to make auto-posts like this happen or NOT happen as you wish whenever you start sending an actual RTMP feed to the HSL RTMP endpoint.
That coming update will allow you to optionally skip the button push step if you like, and just always let it post for new streams starting automagically when the server feels the force of your video feed's bits and bytes hitting its firewalls to be served to the people of the Hive!
For now though, the quick and easy "easy button" was to make, well, a button. That you have full control over. And that may always be enough for controlling it, but we still need to allow you to customize those posts in your HSL channel profile settings, and I am working on that too!
You'll find this new button conveniently located here on your "Start Streaming" instructions page, which is available from the link on your Channel Page when you are logged into your streaming account on HiveStreams.Live!
Now you can easily monetize those streams,
With posts! With peer to peer direct tips! With renewable, customizable Channel Patron Subscriptions! And there's still so much more to come!
Here's how it looks and works:
You can click the post button just one time and the button will then change to a plain text message indicating that your post was successful, so that you don't accidentally click it twice. You'll also get pop up alerts for problems with auth or posting and a success alert on the corner of your screen when its all good too!
Until the auth is confirmed by keychain and the service posts and confirms posting of your blog for you via Keychain, the button will remain, so you can cancel from the keychain popup and nothing will happen till you say it happens!
Do note though, that if you reload this page in your browser, the button will reset and reappear regardless of previous posts or attempted posts with it, and thusly you could click it twice, so be careful and check your blog for a new post if you just aren't sure.
Once clicked and a post successfully made, the button will disable, and you can launch your stream per normal from OBS or your mobile studio app or however you've chosen to send your RTMP stream to HiveStreams.Live using the information on this same instructions page. The post is optional, it is not required to press this button to start a stream, only to announce to the world that it's ON NOW, Baby!
This feature is currently only working for Hive Keychain users, and is not yet developed for HiveSigner users, so my apologies for that, but my recent key tool usage poll shows me not many of you are using HS much anyway and I'll make all the auth tools you all prefer work equally well, as I proceed into and then finally finish the AIOHA integration discussed in a moment in this post below.
If you have questions about using this or any aspect of HiveStreams.Live, please do come ask in the HSL Discord!. Myself and others are already there and surely we can all work together to try to help you get going with live streaming!
In other HSL development news...
I have now got a proper development instance clone of the platform running so that I can accelerate building and testing new features and I have established an up to date private github development repo for some upcoming collaborative work that is in the works with some other eco-system apps.
I am always looking for ways to collaborate with other developers and ecosystem apps so that we can all offer you more and better capabilities on our collaborating platforms.
Stay tuned for that, it is all still in the very early discussions for now but let's just say that saving and publishing your live streams for post-show Video on Demand (VoD) replays in a Hive-centric and decentralized storage kind of way is probably coming sooner rather than later!
I also am beginning to break ground on replacing the dual HiveSigner/Hive Keychain login buttons with a single one that will support ALL the things via Hive's All-In-One-Hive-Auth tool called AIOHA.
I am trying to make it as easy as possible to get in and use it, and I look forward to looking at YOU and YOUR live content soon!
Until then, as always...
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