How do I connect the Playbox Stream app?
Playbox Stream is our own iPhone app for streaming a game: it films with the phone camera and puts the Playbox scoreboard into the video itself, so you need no Custom RTMP, stream key or overlay link. You connect it to your Playbox account once, with a QR code:
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On the iPhone, open Playbox Stream. It shows âConnect your Playbox accountâ with a code scanner.
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On another phone or a computer, open Playbox, Settings (gear icon in your profile), âConnected Appsâ, and tap âConnectâ next to âPlaybox Streamâ. A full-screen sheet shows a QR code and a six-digit code.
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Scan the QR from inside Playbox Stream, not with the camera app, or type the code under âOr enter the codeâ. Tapping the code in Playbox copies it, which helps on the same phone.
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Playbox asks âConnect
?â. Tap âConnectâ only if it is your phone; âNot meâ rejects it.
A code lasts 5 minutes and is replaced by itself while the sheet is open. The row then says âConnectedâ. You can add more phones the same way; âDisconnectâ signs all of them out at once.
The app then lists your games under âMy gamesâ: games you organize or are a âManagerâ or âResults trackerâ (the former Referee) of, so a helper with a role can stream a game without being its organizer. Open one, create the stream on your YouTube channel, the organizerâs channel or the Playbox channel, and tap âGo liveâ. During the stream, the appâs âOverlayâ panel has the same overlay settings as Settings, âOrganizer toolsâ, âOverlayâ, including the âBetween-game screenâ switch and its checkboxes, so you can change them live without opening the website. Goals are still recorded in Playbox (Match room) on another device.
Playbox shows you the way as a banner, âGo live with Playbox Streamâ, on the gameâs Media tab and in Stream settings. It is visible only to people who run the stream (organizer, manager, referee), only on a real game that is not finished or cancelled. Depending on where you are it offers one step: âAdd streamâ if the game has no stream yet, âConnect Playbox Streamâ if no iPhone is paired (it opens Connected Apps), or âOpen Playbox Streamâ once an iPhone is paired. Players do not see it.