How to label my livestream?

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engineer43

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How and where in OBS can I label my stream so I can find it on Facebook? I am just now setting up OBS for future use at my church, but I want to use my personal Facebook account for the test.
 
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Lawrence_SoCal

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I don't believe it works that way.. or you can't (in OBS).. that I'm aware of
OBS (and similar software) uses a stream key to identify who you are (sender), essentially. Based on settings at stream provider (not OBS), that dictates which account and any video Title, description, settings, etc used for Livestream Video

As a fellow House of Worship (HoW) streamer (for last 2+ years), here is my $0.02
- Hopefully you are familiar with, and read up on facebook.com/live/producer If not, I recommend you do
assuming you login with a separate account (we created one strictly for streaming so livestream team did NOT have main church FB login info) and that account has FB permissions to post video , in FB /live/producer you switch who you are posting on behalf of (main FB church acct in this case)
- You can do a test stream to HoW account, no need to use alternate account. A Facebook (FB) test stream is visible to account admins only, not public. A Test Stream is one of many options/settings in /live/producer
Other related comments
- Personally, I make sure to use FB's Scheduled Video Event, so that you get a consistent (static) URL for livestream videos, visible to non-Facebook users. This way you can use HoW communication (emails, newsletter, website, etc) to post URL which essentially goes to account Video library and can be set/saved/watched on Roku, Apple TV, smart TVs, etc. We found this particularly helpful for the older crowd).
Further, as bulk of congregation was already in FB, choice was single platform for community. Since then, FB upgraded their system and now allows general 1080p streaming, so other than marketing reach, no point (for us) in streaming to other platform (YouTube) other than maybe marketing reach​
the naming (Title) of the livestream video, and how it will appear in Video Library is set in Facebook's interface
- Good practice is to change stream key regularly (or better yet, don't use a persistent key, and use a new one every service... which is what we do). Our Process is log into /live/producer, find Scheduled Video, choose Setup Live Video, copy stream key into OBS, and you are all set
Warning: previously I'd immediately do a test stream connection (over an hour before the service), stop stream in OBS, spend next hour finishing Service Bulletin (PPTx) tweaks and other prep work. Then starting stream in OBS 10-20 minutes in advance of scheduled start, per FB rules/warning/notice. (side note, we start livestream [Go Live) 5 minutes before service start time to give livestream a chance to get distributed and users to find/connect to stream. Waiting to Go Live as service starts is NOT something I'd recommend]. A couple of months ago, FB Auto-start of livestream at scheduled time stopped working (after 2 years). One change we made was to NOT do that test connection in advance, plus some other process changes in /live/producer, and auto-start is working again... no idea if that early connection with a non-persistent key was the issue???​
related - I toggle the FB setting so that if FB stops receiving a stream, FB does NOT end the livestream (in case issue on my end, and I can re-connect, which happened a lot 2 years ago). We manually, to be on the safe side, End Live Video in FB /live/producer when we are done. With solid PC and stable Internet, this probably isn't necessary... but I'd rather not risk it​
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Hope that helps
 
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