I LOVE Faithlife Proclaim (and all of the tools here.) I have started having an unusual issue with our streaming setup that I THINK is non-Proclaim related. We are using Proclaim to feed OBS to stream to Facebook Live. Everything has been fine forever, but the past two Sundays our stream has not started at the pre-appointed time. Instead, it has started at a time near the end of the service. We can't even manually start the livestream. Anyone have any ideas? Oh, and I love this forum, too! Blessings!
- Rich Tiner we used to do something similar and it seems like Facebook is always changing how they let you schedule a live stream. We finally went to another service that automatically sets up our live stream with Facebook and Youtube as well as our Church Online platform and we've had no problems since then. Before we did that we frequently ran into problems with our Facebook streaming. So my guess is that it's a Facebook issue, but since we haven't had to set up our Facebook streaming lately I'm sorry I can't provide more help.
- Hi Rich Tiner, your experience and Pat Damiani's experience with Facebook is similar to ours. One day our events wouldn't start. They had changed the interface and we had to redo our event description . . . it was no longer in the same place and we had no stream to Facebook that Sunday as I was out of town and the volunteer didn't know what to look for. Did either of you know that there is a MIDI plug-in for OBS? I used to use MIDIKey2Key to generate hotkeys. I found the MIDI plug in and now Proclaim sends a MIDI note out when the stream is supposed to start. I was out of town again last Sunday attending an event with my son and his wife and the stream started perfectly. . . . Now, if I can only get the devs at Faithlife Proclaim to make the change I've been asking for - the ability to set each presentation to have two services with a 'Mid-Service Loop" I wouldn't have to download a 3 hour service in order to edit it into 2 separate 1-1/2 hour services :-)
- Facebook has two ways to Livestream now. The first is more of a manual process, the second way creates an "event" and it will not begin until the time it is set and is automatic and I have found major issues with it so I only use the first way now.