Flirting with Owncast, Raspberry Pi and OBS - Adventure in Self Hosing

[bcoyle]

Owncast is an environment similar to youtube etc, just not as well known. There is no censorship and you are pretty much allowed to have you own channel with your own stuff. But, You should still pay attention to copyright laws.

Owncast has a central directory where other people have their channels and live broadcasts are highlighted. It has chat etc.

There are many solutions in the cloud, but can be costly if you use a lot of bandwidth. Also, you don't want to store a lot of videos there either.

So this is an experiment in self hosting.
Owncast has downloadable software that runs on a PI and make it pretty easy to get started.


Of course, upload speed is important, so you need good upload speeds to make this work.

So wish me luck and join in the adventure if interested.

 

[bcoyle]

Step 1. Buy a pi. I ordered a pi 5 kit from amazon yesterday, Should be here today.

 

[bcoyle]

Step 2. Got the PI today - Put it together.
I got a pi 5, 8gb ram, 128gb sd card with preloaded OS.
The instructions were printed very small. Had to use a magnetizing glass.
Went to the god of all knowledge to help for a few details.
Plugged the power supply in, got a green light.
Connected a monitor, mouse,keyboard.
Came up alright.
Created account, password
selected english, timezone and browser type.
Connected the lan cable.
browser worked fine
I am totally impressed

IT IS SO TINY!