Schedule A Broadcast For Later (Advanced)

This walkthrough demonstrates how to use Switchpro to schedule a broadcast for a later time so you can promote it and get people hyped ^_^. This walkthrough also goes over RTMP streaming using Streamlabs on a second device, in this case my iPad. Any RTMP streaming client will work, however, we just like Streamlabs :) If you haven't already, go ahead and create a broadcast (we suggest in a new tab so you can follow along here).
Is your broadcast created? Cool! Let's go!

After you create your broadcast, you will land on the broadcast control screen. Before your broadcast is active, you will have a choice of starting the broadcast immediately, or scheduling it for later. For this walkthrough, we are going to schedule our broadcast for 10 minutes from now. Go Ahead and tap schedule broadcast, then the calendar icon to open the calendar.

You can pick any time, here we are setting the broadcast for 10 minutes in the future, then tap set.

Double Check that the time and date is what you want then schedule your broadcast.

Next, toggle your broadcast to 'Public' broadcast your broadcast becomes discoverable on our upcoming broadcasts marquee.

Now, lets take a look at the broadcast Wall. This is where the information about your broadcast lives until it's Showtime, like the poster art, description of your broadcast, and calendar signup for your fans.

You can share the URL of your broadcasts wall anywhere to promote. Once you are in your room and streaming, users will be able to join your broadcast either through this page or through, any direct link to your broadcast that has been shared, or discovered through the upcoming broadcasts marquee. Tap the 'Hamburger' () to open the main navigation, then tap Upcoming to get to the upcoming broadcasts marquee. (note on larger devices, there's no hamburger, just tap 'Upcoming' in the main nav bar at the top.)

There's your broadcast! As long as your broadcast is set to public, it will appear here. Once your broadcast is streaming and you are in the broadcast chatroom, your broadcast will automatically apppear in the now playing marquee until your broadcast ends. Next, lets go back to the control screen for our broadcast to start streaming and get ready to take the stage.

First tap the 'Hamburger' again to open the main menu, (), then tap the settings cog to open your main settings menu (), then finally tap your broadcast title to get back to the broadcast control screen for your broadcast.

Now we are back on the control screen for our broadcast, but we are going to do something different this time. Note the Stream Server and Stream Key fields, we are going to use these values to stream from a second device. In this case I'm going to use Streamlabs on my iPad.

I'm assuming if you are here, you probably already know how to download and install Streamlabs...So here we are at the home screen (of Streamlabs). First, tap the main menu in the upper left.

Then choose account settings...

Then tap setup for Custom RTMP Server...

Remember the Stream Server and Stream Key values on your broadcast control screen? This is where they go, lets go get them from Switchpro.

Now, log into your Switchpro account on your second device like I did on my iPad here, and navigate to the broadcast control screen, and then use the clipboard buttons to cut and paste the values into the appropriate fields in Streamlabs, tap save, then return to the Streamlabs home screen. If you've streamed with RTMP clients before this should seem familiar...

Now hit 'Go Live'...

Streamlabs will ask you what platform to broadcast to, in the select platform dropdown, select the custom server we just set up (custom rtmp), and then Next. You can put whatever you'd like in the Title and Description when streamlabs asks for it, it won't impact your stream on Switchpro at all, this is more for multistreaming to other services if you wish.

Once Streamlabs is connected, you will see the bitrate and some other information near the top of the screen on Streamlabs. Let's go check our stream preview in Switchpro on our first device we started with.

If all is groovy, you should see your stream from Streamlabs in the stream preview window on your primary device in Switchpro like so. Now all we need to do if take the stage!

And finally, we are in our room and streaming from a secondary device! Most advanced streamers will prefer this method, as you can present a much higher quality production. Plus you can chat on your primary device without bouncing your camera all around ^_^.