OBS Stopped Connecting to Facebook Live Stream

[KC Meacham]

Like most of you, this problem between Facebook and OBS started all of a sudden. For 5 years we have flawlessly live streamed on FB via OBS...until 2 weeks ago. Now, when attempting to go live, we see the "video source required" message. I am bout to try the browser refresh method and see if I have any luck. Until then, I am believing this to be a Facebook issue. But, we all know how contacting them for support can be. Good luck everyone!

 

[kirrito117]

I've been successfully streaming for several years, and three weeks ago the OBS would not connect to Facebook. Sometimes times out with the message "Could not access the specified channel or key". I tried a myriad of key entry options, including persistent key. I kept trying last night prior to a live broadcast today, and for a long time it wasn't working, but then it worked several times. Unfortunately, today it would not connect for my live stream. I've tried several browsers, and oddly once today the blue button came on Facebook, but when I clicked it, it just went spinning. I did a speedtest and have 90+M upstream and downstream. I am running OBS 31.0.1, however, I don't recall if that update was the beginning of my turmoil. Can I "easily" roll back to a previous version? Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Also I noticed that 'sometimes' when you click "start streaming" it immediately turns to "stop streaming" which made me think it was partially successfully through the connection process.

We started having this exact same problem in our church the last week of January. We've done all the same steps as many here. Such as trying different browsers, obs versions, resets, cache/cookies clearing, etc. Will admit we've not tried duck duck go.

The one thing I have noticed is that when I swapped our login from our churches account to my personal I could instantly successfully connect my video source. I'd log out of my personal and go back into our church account and once again the system would not recognize the video source, despite reporting good metrics.

So, at the risk of sounding harsh, is there anyone on this post that's having this trouble that is not using a church account?

 

[DIS12]

We started having this exact same problem in our church the last week of January. We've done all the same steps as many here. Such as trying different browsers, obs versions, resets, cache/cookies clearing, etc. Will admit we've not tried duck duck go.

The one thing I have noticed is that when I swapped our login from our churches account to my personal I could instantly successfully connect my video source. I'd log out of my personal and go back into our church account and once again the system would not recognize the video source, despite reporting good metrics.

So, at the risk of sounding harsh, is there anyone on this post that's having this trouble that is not using a church account?

I found the same thing as you. Switched from our church account to my personal account and it just worked. Switched back to church account and it failed. All that was on my home computer. Went to church Sunday and Facebook failed so I hit the Chrome browser refresh button while OBS was trying to connect, and it connected Facebook to OBS. We broadcasted fine. Works every time in my experience. Try it.