Live Streaming with Interact

Interact supports live streaming out of the box and enables you to easily host broadcasts for your team.

Live streaming requires a broadcast client such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, OBS, or similar. Follow the guide for your platform of choice for creating a live stream inside of Interact.

The key components for livestreaming are:

We'll walk through how to connect your Cloud Streaming Provider to Interact. If you haven't selected your Local Streaming Software, you can follow this guide to get started with OBS - a free local streaming tool.

To get started, you'll need to decide where you'd like to share your live stream - using a Page or a Feed Post are the most common options, but you can embed the live stream player anywhere using some basic HTML.

1. Set up a Livestream

Create your livestream in your provider of choice - we'll use Stream in our examples below.

Once you have your Viewer Token and Livestream ID, you can create the live streaming player inside of Interact.

2. Create a Page

Navigate to add a page that you'd like to use to broadcast your stream via Manage Pages > Add Page. Create any content on the page to accompany your livestream. Then add an iFrame block:

Using the Viewer Token and Livestream ID from above, replace the placeholders in the URL below:h

https://<intranet-url>/livestream/index.html?call=<livestream ID>&token=<viewer token>

Replace each placeholder - including angle brackets.

3. Add the Livestream URL to the iFrame block

Copy this URL into your iFrame block, and publish your page (or save as draft.)

4. View Your Page

On the page viewer, if you've started streaming, your livestream will now appear inline:

If the stream hasn't started yet, the page will display a message to viewers. Once the stream ends, the video player will be blank.