Stream to a hosted service

Instead of sending your video straight to a platform, or to your own OBS at home, you send it to a third-party service, and let that service broadcast for you.

What this is

It’s the same idea as the other two guides, just a different destination:

Straight to a platform: your phone talks directly to Twitch, Kick, and so on.
To your home OBS: your phone sends to a PC you run, and OBS broadcasts.
To a hosted service: your phone sends to software someone else runs, and it broadcasts.

People use a hosted service to reach several platforms at once, for drop protection without running their own PC, or to add overlays and alerts on the service’s side. What a given service does depends on the service.

How it works

To Roam, a hosted service is just a destination like any other. The service gives you an ingest URL (RTMP or SRT), you paste it into Roam, and go live. The service takes it from there.

Let the service do the heavy lifting. If a service can add overlays, alerts, or scene elements, do those on its side, not on the phone. Every overlay the phone renders is more work and more heat for it. The cooler setup is to keep the phone as a plain video sender and let the service (or OBS) build the final picture. Roam’s own overlays are there mainly for when you stream straight to a platform.

Set it up

Sign up for the service and connect your platform (or platforms) in its dashboard.
Find the ingest URL it gives you to stream into. It’ll be an RTMP URL (server + key) or an SRT URL (with a stream id or key on the end).
Open Roam → Settings → Stream and paste that URL into Stream URL, exactly as you would a platform’s URL. (See the platform guide for how RTMP and SRT URLs are put together.)
Press and hold GO LIVE. You’re streaming to the service, and it broadcasts onward.

Which service?

There are many, and they vary: some just fan your stream out to several platforms (restreaming), some add overlays and alerts, some focus on drop protection for IRL. A couple of well-known restreamers are Restream and Beamstream, both with free tiers.

Those are just examples. The same concept applies to any service: if it gives you an RTMP or SRT ingest URL, Roam can stream to it. Pick the one whose features fit what you need.

Want to run it yourself instead? See Stream to your home OBS. Or learn what every button and setting does.