How to Livestream Using Multiple iPhones or iPads

One phone or tablet streams to an event at a time, unless you add an extra camera angle. An extra camera costs extra, and it lets another iPhone, iPad or Android phone stream the same event at the same time. Guests keep your one event link and switch between the angles in the player.

Several phones at the same time

• Personal account: add up to 2 more cameras with Add Another Camera Angle, for 3 in all. Each extra camera is $35 in the US (CA$35 in Canada, £25 in the UK, €29 in euro countries, and a local price elsewhere). You add cameras in the EventLive app, version 4.3.2 or later on iPhone and iPad or 4.3.8 or later on Android, or on the web at broadcaster.eventlive.pro.
• Business account: add each angle as a room called Camera, or each place (two courts, two stages, an overflow room) as its own room. Each room is unlocked like an event, at 1 credit per day, and rooms are included in the Unlimited plan. See Multi-Room Events.

Each camera or room needs its own phone or tablet while they're live at the same time. One phone can't stream two cameras.

Switching to another device

Without an extra camera, only one device can be live on your event, so stop the first before you start the second. The same goes for each camera: one device at a time.

1. Pause or stop the stream on your first device.
2. Sign in to the same EventLive account on your second device.
3. Start or resume the stream from the second device.

With a business account, camera operators don't need your sign-in. Invite each one as an Editor of the event or of your account, and they use their own sign-in. See How to Add Team Members to Your Business Account. The iPhone, iPad and Android apps get team accounts in an upcoming app update. Until then, team members open the event on the web at broadcaster.eventlive.pro and use its How to Go Live, or stream with the event's stream key.

See How To Switch Devices During a Livestream.

Several cameras on a computer, OBS and encoders

• On a computer: EventLive for Windows and EventLive for Mac switch between several cameras connected to the computer, such as webcams and professional cameras, without RTMP. On a Mac, one of them can be an iPhone with Continuity Camera. See How To Use Multiple Cameras for Live Streaming.
• One edited program with OBS or a switcher: combine your cameras in OBS, vMix or a hardware switcher and send one stream to your event over RTMP.
• Several streams at once: EventLive supports multi-room streaming. Each room, and each extra camera angle, has its own unique stream key, so each encoder or computer streams to its own room or camera. Find each key in that room's or camera's How to Go Live → RTMP. See Multi-Room Events.

Troubleshooting

• A second phone can't go live: another device is already live on the same event or camera. Stop that one first, or add another camera angle for the second phone.
• Switching devices: make sure you're signed in to the same EventLive account on both.