Testing your equipment at home

If you are new to the platform, it is recommended you test one live stream with your streaming equipment ahead of time. This tutorial will guide you through setting up your first account, creating a racing team and drivers, and finally creating a 30-minute "My Races Live" stream event to ensure everything works smoothly. Grab your camera, and let's get started!

Creating a new account

Adding a new team and drivers

Creating a test stream

Configuring your camera

Making sure you are "Live"

Additional tests you can do while the stream is live

Ending the Test Stream

Ready to go Live? Do this!

Creating a new account

If you don't have an account yet, follow these steps:

1. Go to myraces.live/portal and click on "Sign Up" to create a new free account.

2.  A verification email will be sent to your email address. Once your email is verified you can login with your user.
   

Adding a new team and drivers

Creating a new team and drivers is required before creating any stream event. This information will be used to display the team's name and the current driver information in the stream overlay.

1. Go to Race Streaming>Racing Team and create a new team.

2. Go to Race Streaming>Drivers and add drivers to your team.

Creating a test stream

Now, you're ready to create a test stream. This step will automatically create a 30min long unlisted YouTube Live video on the MyRaces Live YouTube channel that your camera stream will be sent to, together with the live race data overlay.

1. Go to Race Streaming>Steam and click on "Start a Test Stream".

2. Select your racing team, driver and enter your car number. Optionally select a race data source and select a race event from the list of current events.

3. Click "Start" and wait a couple of seconds for the "Status" to show "Live".

4. Wait for up to 2 minutes for the "Infra" to show "Ready".

Configuring your camera

When the stream infra shows "ready", power on your streaming equipment and start live streaming:

• Find the RTMP URL displayed under your newly created Stream Event:

  • Click on your test Stream Event> scroll down to the "CAMERA CONFIG" box.

  • Copy the full RTMP URL, for example: "rtmp://1234.myraces.live/1234/cam1"

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In your streaming equipment:

• For MineA5 cameras, use the touch screen or the MLive App to navigate to the streaming settings. Under "Single Network Channel", configure the "Local chn-1" and:

  • Select the protocol: RTMP with encoding H.264.

  • Paste the full RTMP URL in the "Streaming Address" field (including the /cam1 at the end!!)

  • Leave the "Stream code" field empty.

  • Save the address and/or click on "Start Streaming".

• For Yi4K+ cameras, you can use the built-in "Show QR Code" button under Cameras>Default Camera (the camera you're using for that stream). Make sure to first update the Default Camera object with your WIFI SSID and Password.
  

- For other equipment/phone streaming app (LiveU Solo, Prism Live, StreamLabs):

• If your equipment requires both a "Stream URL" and a "Stream Key", remove the "/cam1" from the main URL and use "cam1" as the "Stream Key":

  • RTMP URL: "rtmp://1234.myraces.live/1234/

  • Stream Key: "cam1"

Making sure you are "Live"

Scroll down to the "Live Streams Health" under your Stream Event and use the refresh icon to see the graph below. The "orange line" representing the input from your camera stream should start spiking up.

Note:

• If the orange line stays to zero, it means we're not receiving the video stream from the camera. Go back to your camera/phone to stop the live stream, double-check your network connection and the configured RTMP URL for any typos, and try again.

No stream from the camera

Receiving stream from the camera

Additional tests you can do while the stream is live

Here are some additional tests you can perform while the stream is live. These actions will trigger an automatic update of the video overlay:

• Update your team and driver information (click on the stream event, then on the edit icon located at the top right corner of the "My Team" box).

• Pick a race data source and a live event. Find a car number that is participating in that race and use that number as your stream car number to discover how the live race data is displayed (click on the stream, then on the edit icon located at the top right corner of the "Race Event" box).

• Test the Pause/Resume actions to discover how to hide your camera video input stream temporarily and send custom messages to your audience. This feature can be used before the race start to share the race schedule or in between race sessions to announce when the next session will take place. Note:

• It may take up to 20 seconds for your change to be reflected in the video overlay.
  

Ending the Test Stream

The test stream will stay up for 30 minutes until the indicated stop time, after which, it will start to tear down and be moved under the "Past Streams" tab. It's important to know that when a stream is past, it cannot be used anymore, therefore, you should only end a stream if you're completely done with your live stream. If you want to end the stream earlier than the stop time, you can use the button "End Stream".

Now that you have tested your first stream, you're ready to learn how to create a real stream for your upcoming race weekends and experiment with the more advanced features.

Ready to go Live? Do this!

Follow this next tutorial