Need your help

[Kroggers]

During this year I have been trying to put together live in-car video streaming from my race car (started out as a project for my 5 year old boy to share the racing action with me). I have all the hardware sorted out and now for the last bit I need to get the web part fixed...

I have looked at a number of options, and it looks like YouTube is the beast one (and as I can understand free), but I need to get at least 100 subscribers to the team channel before they will even give the option to live stream, as you can see here - https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/youtube/youtube-live/0xoKC9YWEyQ

So, can you please help by subscribing to the channel (sorry if this is rude)? https://www.youtube.com/coolcavaracing

[stomachmonkey]

Done

Did you check http://www.justin.tv/

Last time I used them to stream they were still free.

[craigster59]

Done

[Rikao4]

another one

Rika

[jtfreels]

one more, I liked your 2013 videos..

[Kroggers]

Thank you all for the help. I will post some pictures and details on the set-up I have put together for this during the weekend...

Thank you for the link to Justin.tv I will have a look at that one. I was looking to use Bambuser, but they will only permit free streaming if you use their mobile phone app - and I want to stream my in car video signal.

[porsche4life]

Also check out ustream.

[id10t]

You no longer need a minimum number of subscribers (as of today)

YouTube Expands Live Streaming to All Channels

[Kroggers]

Originally Posted by id10t

You no longer need a minimum number of subscribers (as of today)

YouTube Expands Live Streaming to All Channels

Cool

Just checked and the Live option has become available now - now I just need to get the hardware configured and I can give it a test...

Thank you all for the help.

Will post some details on my set-up once I have some good pictures over the weekend and let you know how the testing turns out.

I did have a look at Ustream, can not remember now why - but it was not going to work for me for some reason. I think it was related to technology, but could be wrong...

[Kroggers]

Again, thank you all for the help to get the rating up on YouTube. It must have worked as I now can activate live stream

As I said, this all started at the beginning of the 2013 season. My kids really like to watch the in car video after my races and ask questions about the race and why things happen like they do. After one of the early races this season our boy Elias (5 years old) started asking why he could not come with me to the races and why he could not sit in the car with me whilst I was racing. This with my electronics and computer background got me wanting to do the next best thing - stream the in-car video to him from every race

I had a look at some of the more normal offerings like ustream, but most of them had restrictions or costs that I did not feel happy with.


The only option at the start of the season that I did find that did look like it would work was Bambuser. I was also worried about the broadcasting part and having a good signal. Using just my mobile phone and a good 3G account I tested Bambuser - I was actually impressed with the results - CoolCavaRacing | Bambuser

As you can see in the test videos on Bambuser, cornering can upset the phone when recording and the mount I had was not very stable. I also wanted a solution that did not use my mobile phone (will still need to work on this one)

I did some google searching and found a nice little broadcasting unit for a nice price from Cerevo.



Using my mobile phone as a network access point, I could now stream video from my Racelogic data acquisition system via the cerevo and to the internet using 3G.

Here is the full set-up installed in the car (with some cables still not completed).



But then I hit my first problems - after I had received my Cerevo I could not get it to work as expected. Turns out that the Cerevo can not connect to all types of networks and the one offered by Nokia phones was not supported - I had to get a Windows, Android or Apple phone! I borrowed a Android phone from a friend and managed to get it all working...

This brings us up to the end of the season - yes, took me a full season to sort out this set-up. And all was looking good until Bambuser sent out an email about a month back to say that they are changing the usage - in future free streaming can only be done with their mobile phone app. Therefore if I want to use my set-up I need to pay for a monthly subscription

And this then pulled me to YouTube. During the winter I will do some testing to see how the YouTube works and then the last step in the set-up is to remove the need for my mobile phone and to wire in a 3G or 4G unit to the car.

I will keep you all posted, but if there are any mobile broadcasting or telemetry experts here, then I would appreciate some guidance and advice. But like I said from the start, this is a fun project I started for my kids to share in the racing fun from a safe and relaxing place (I still think a race circuit is not a good place for small kids - home via live stream is much better), so not looking for a professional solution and trying to keep it cost free :cheers: