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Enter the complete streaming destination. A key alone has no server for Roam to contact. If your service gives you an RTMP or RTMPS server and key separately, join them with one slash at the boundary. For example, rtmps://ingest.example.com/app plus YOUR_STREAM_KEY becomes rtmps://ingest.example.com/app/YOUR_STREAM_KEY.

That address is an illustration. Use your own server and key. If you already have a combined URL, paste it unchanged without adding another key. See the full URL examples.

An accepted URL only means its format can be used. It does not prove that the server is reachable or that the key is correct. Check ordinary internet access, compare the full destination with the platform dashboard, and make sure the receiving input or scheduled broadcast is ready.

If you send through a relay or home computer, check that receiver too. Keep a working key unless it is invalid or exposed; a temporary connection failure does not by itself require a new one. Connection checks

Roam accepts compatible RTMP, RTMPS and SRT destinations, including SRT without a passphrase. Use the address your service supplies. RTMPS encrypts the connection. Passphrase-protected SRT encrypts video and audio.

Do not add an s or invent a passphrase for a server that has not been configured for it. For YouTube RTMPS, copy the full address from Live Control Room because the hostname also changes. YouTube RTMPS instructions

To start, hold the pill at the top left of the camera screen for about a second. It reads Hold to go live. To end Roam's stream, tap the pill, and when Roam asks "Stop the stream?", tap Stop. This works while it is connecting or reconnecting too. Check the platform or relay's broadcast status afterwards, since it may keep its output running.

Stop before changing the active destination. In Settings > Stream, use Save current URL to keep a named destination you can select later.

Yes, since Roam Live 0.10.16. Signing in is optional. Open Settings > Twitch and tap Sign in with Twitch. The first-run page offers it too, with a Sign in to Twitch? step after Android's prompts, and so does the Stream destination needed dialog.

Signed in, Roam fills in your Twitch stream address and key, and brings your chat and events, such as follows and redeems, into the chat panel and TTS. Settings > Twitch lets you change your stream title and category, and shows your viewer count while you are live. The Mark control marks a moment on your live stream so you can find it later.

You do not need a Roam account. The channel fields in Settings > Chat & TTS still read a public chat without a sign-in. How the Twitch sign-in works

Yes. Send Roam's feed to a restreaming service or to OBS at home, then distribute it to your platforms from there.

Roam deliberately sends to one destination. Restreaming belongs off the phone. Uploading the same feed to several places multiplies the mobile bandwidth it needs. Keeping one upload leaves more room on your connection and keeps the extra distribution work off your phone.

For example, sending a 4 Mbps feed to three destinations separately needs about 12 Mbps of upload, before network overhead. Sending it once to a service that distributes it still needs about 4 Mbps from the phone.

Use a restreaming service

This is the simplest route if you do not need a home computer for scenes or overlays. Connect your platform accounts to the service, then use its incoming stream address in Roam.

• Restream: a good starting point for two channels. Its free plan accepts streaming software such as Roam over RTMP or RTMPS and sends to two supported channels at once. Three or more channels, Facebook Pages and Groups, and custom RTMP output destinations need a paid plan. Free streams can include Restream branding in platform descriptions. Free-plan details
• Livepush: its free-plan guide lists three destinations and 20 streaming hours per month, with one channel per platform type. Twitch and YouTube are supported on the free plan; Kick, Facebook and custom RTMP outputs need a paid plan. Free allowance and current platform limits.
• Streamrun: another option if you use its IRL streaming service. It is a paid service with a trial, rather than an ongoing free plan. Plans and output setup.

Plan details checked September 2026. Check the linked limits for the platforms you want before setting up.

Example: Roam to Restream

1. In Restream, add your platform accounts under Channels.
2. Choose New Stream > Encoder | RTMP and enable the channels you want to broadcast to, within your plan's limit.
3. Copy the server URL and stream key. Join them with one slash and paste the complete address into Roam Settings > Stream > Stream URL. The URL example shows how.
4. When you are ready to broadcast, hold the Go live pill in Roam. Check that each platform is receiving picture and sound. When finished, tap the pill, then Stop, and check that every platform has ended its broadcast.

Use Restream's streaming-software instructions for this route. You can also choose RTMPS on the free plan.

Use OBS at home

Follow the home OBS guide, then choose a restreaming service as OBS's destination or use the free Multiple RTMP outputs plugin. The plugin sends a separate upload from your computer to each platform, so your home connection needs enough upload capacity for all of them.

The phone still sends one feed to OBS. See the OBS multistreaming steps, including how to set up the plugin's start and stop sync for Roam's remote controls.

Reset the exposed key through your platform, then replace it in Roam's active and saved destinations and any other app or relay that uses it. If a private SRT URL was exposed, replace the affected credentials through the issuing service.

Keep the complete destination out of screenshots and public support posts. Kick's help explains its reset control and the need to update streaming software afterwards. Kick stream-key help

The panel under Settings > Chat & TTS is for you on the phone. It is not included in the outgoing video. Show chat panel is on by default, and the panel shows on the camera screen once a channel is set. Enter a public Twitch or Kick channel name or a YouTube channel handle on that page, or sign in to Twitch.

You can change its text size, width and side. To show chat inside the video viewers receive, follow the chat overlay instructions.

Use Roam Chat to create a Twitch chat overlay, then add its URL as a Web layer in Roam Live or as a Browser source in OBS.

Follow the chat overlay setup steps for appearance, sizing and positioning. The Overlays page also covers live text, location, images and their battery-use differences.

Roam does not directly mix webpage sound into its outgoing audio. A web overlay may play sound on the phone, and the microphone may pick up the speaker, but that is not a reliable alert-audio setup.

Check received audio rather than assuming sound you hear on the phone is included. If OBS produces your final broadcast, add and configure the alert's audio there.

Check that Show chat panel is enabled and that the channel name or YouTube handle is correct. Confirm there are new messages in that channel and that the phone has internet access. YouTube needs an active live chat.

Roam reads external chat services, so outages and service changes can affect messages independently of the camera stream. YouTube chat uses an unofficial interface and may stop working when YouTube changes its site. A working phone chat panel also does not prove a separate web overlay is connected.

Recommended is Roam's default: 720p at 30 fps with a 2,500 kbps video target. Data saver uses 480p at 1,200 kbps. Sharp uses 1080p at 4,500 kbps. All three run at 30 fps.

Use a quality your connection and receiving service can sustain. Auto bitrate can lower the video target when the connection weakens and raise it again as it recovers. Heat protection can also lower bitrate. Stop the stream before changing the quality preset.

Streaming works a phone hard on its own. Dual camera, web overlays, a bright screen and charging add to the load. So do other apps, a hot day, a case on a car's dash and a phone already warm at the start.

Roam goes by Android's thermal status, the phone's own heat assessment, not a temperature. The phone status pill at the top of the camera screen shows the level in a word, next to the battery. As it rises, Roam steps in:

• Moderate, HOT on the pill: Roam caps the bitrate at 70 percent of your quality setting, so 1,750 kbps on Recommended.
• Severe, TOO HOT on the pill: the cap drops to 40 percent and the second camera turns off.
• Critical, CRITICAL on the pill: the torch also turns off and web overlays pause. If the phone is still critical a minute later, Roam ends the stream to protect it.
• Emergency or shutdown, also CRITICAL on the pill: the stream stops at once, and a new one can't start.

A heat warning on the camera screen says what changed. The resolution stays the same. Hide screen never turns on by itself. When the phone cools, the caps lift and you can turn the second camera on again. Web overlays paused by heat stay off for the rest of that stream and come back at your next one.

To give the phone its best chance, close other apps before you go live, including anything recording in the background, and start with a cool phone. While live, avoid running anything else over Roam, and keep the phone where air can reach it. Air con in a car counts. On a hot day, shade, one camera and fewer web overlays help. So does Hide screen. Show its button under Settings > Customisation.

The message reads Stream stopped because the phone became critically hot. The phone reached Android's critical level and was still there a minute later. By then Roam had already cut the bitrate, turned off the second camera and the torch, and paused web overlays. So Roam ended the stream to protect the phone. At Android's emergency level, Roam stops the stream at once.

Let the phone cool before you go live again. Put it where air can reach it, and close other apps, including anything recording in the background. Your stream address and settings are untouched, so once it has cooled, hold to go live as usual. What Roam does as the phone heats up, and what helps

If the phone is still at the critical level when you hold to go live, Roam asks you first, and then the phone gets 30 seconds to cool instead of a minute. At the emergency level, Roam won't start a stream until the phone cools.

On supported phones, enable Dual camera in Settings > Camera, then use its Main control. You can choose the PiP size and corner and mirror the front-camera inset.

Concurrent camera support depends on the phone. It also adds heat and battery use, so test the phone under the conditions you plan to stream in. Thermal protection may turn the second camera off.

Connect the microphone, open Settings > Audio and select the available input. If it is missing, leave this category and return to refresh the list. Watch its meter and listen to a received test. The Main MIC control also gives access to microphone selection and input gain when enabled.

Bluetooth microphones use a phone-call voice mode and may sound different from wired or USB inputs. Select and test a Bluetooth microphone before starting; switching routes during a stream may need a restart. Raise input gain cautiously: louder audio can clip.

BRB changes what viewers receive. The phone-side BRB screen shows your message or image with audio muted. When a connected OBS BRB scene is configured, the control switches that scene instead; Mute mic and camera during OBS BRB controls protection of the phone feed.

Hide screen blacks out your phone display while streaming continues. It keeps phone chat and controls out of sight when the display faces other people. A reminder of how to get back shows for about eight seconds, then the screen goes dark. Touch and hold the screen for about two seconds to return. It does not hide overlays already included in the broadcast. Hidden by default. Show its button under Settings > Customisation. Older versions called it Stealth.

Roam uses a foreground streaming service to keep an active stream running when you go to another app or turn the screen off. Its notification provides a way to stop.

Android and phone-vendor battery restrictions can still interrupt background work. Tap Settings > Reliability > Background use and allow it when Android asks. On Samsung, Xiaomi and some other phones, a line under that row says where the phone's own battery switch is. Test this on your own phone before a long stream.

Roam retries a dropped stream for the period selected under Settings > Reliability: 1, 5 or 15 minutes, or Forever. Auto bitrate can help when a connection weakens, but it cannot send video with no usable connection.

The platform or relay decides what viewers see during the gap and whether its broadcast stays open. Local recording can continue while Roam reconnects. To end the attempt rather than keep retrying, tap the RECONNECTING pill, then Stop.

Enable Settings > Reliability > Record to phone while streaming. Roam records a local copy while streaming and publishes the completed file to Movies/Roam after recording stops. The recording continues during network reconnection attempts.

Recording needs at least 2 GB free to start and stops if free space falls below 500 MB. This stops the recording, not the network stream. Recording uses additional storage and power.

Look in Movies/Roam using your phone's Files or gallery app. Roam copies the finished recording there after it stops, so a long recording may take time to appear.

If it remains missing, check available storage and open Roam again so pending recordings can be retried. Keep Roam's app data while seeking help, since an unpublished recording may still be stored with the app. A failed publication does not guarantee that the file is recoverable. Get recording help

The Stream URL sends the phone's video and audio to an OBS receiver. Settings > OBS connects to OBS WebSocket for scene changes and broadcast controls. They are two separate connections.

A connected OBS control does not prove the phone's video has arrived, and received video does not prove remote control is connected. Check both using the phone-to-OBS guide.

Only if you enable Sync OBS streaming with Roam and OBS is connected and configured. With sync off, Roam sends its feed while you control OBS broadcasting separately.

With sync enabled, Roam only stops an OBS broadcast it started. Do not assume stopping the phone ends a broadcast that was already running in OBS. For a receive-only test, leave sync off and confirm OBS's own output remains stopped.

No. Show OBS control on main screen changes the visibility of the Main control. It does not disconnect OBS or disable the configured connection behavior.

Use Disconnect in OBS settings to disconnect the remote-control session. Manage the phone's stream and OBS's own broadcast separately.

Stop streaming, open Settings > Help & about, and export a password-protected backup. Transfer it privately, then import it through Help & about on the other phone. Import replaces that phone's Roam setup.

A complete backup includes settings, overlays and connection credentials. Keep the backup and its password private. Roam cannot recover a forgotten backup password. Recheck camera and microphone choices on the new phone because its hardware may differ.

Google Play manages updates for Play installations. Roam's in-app update check is for installations made from an APK.

Use the same installation source for updates. A differently signed APK cannot update a Play installation in place. Check the version in Settings > Help & about when comparing instructions or reporting a problem.