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NOALBS Cloud

How NOALBS Cloud works

When you stream IRL, your encoder (a BELABOX, IRL Pro, Moblin, …) sends video over mobile networks to a stream server, and OBS picks it up from there. When the connection gets bad, viewers see a frozen or pixelated picture, or nothing at all.

NOALBS watches the stream server and switches OBS to the right scene for you:

Scene When
LIVE The feed is healthy.
LOW The bitrate dropped below your LOW trigger, or the latency (RTT) rose above it. A scene that hides the bad picture or says the connection is weak.
BRB No usable feed. A “be right back” scene.

When the feed recovers, it switches back.

The Live page: the stream is LIVE on BELABOX Cloud, with its bitrate chart, the stream servers, OBS’s preview, the scenes and the activity.

NOALBS and NOALBS Cloud

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NOALBS is a program you run on your own PC next to OBS. NOALBS Cloud is the hosted version: the same switching rules, but nothing to install or keep running, plus things a program on your PC can’t do:

  • a dashboard you can use from your phone or give to your moderators,
  • stream history with charts, markers and every switch,
  • chat commands on Twitch, Kick and YouTube without running a bot yourself,
  • remote control of your BELABOX and Moblin.

How it connects

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OBS ── obs-websocket ── browser source ──► NOALBS Cloud ──► your stream server's stats

You add one browser source to OBS. It talks to OBS’s built-in WebSocket server on your PC and connects out to NOALBS Cloud, so there are no ports to open and nothing on your network has to be reachable from the internet.

NOALBS Cloud reads your stream server’s stats URL once a second, decides which scene should be on air and tells OBS through the browser source. That only works while OBS is open with the browser source active.

Words used in these docs

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  • Workspace: your account’s home. It holds your switchers and the people who can use them. You can be in several, for example your own and a streamer’s you moderate for.
  • Switcher: one OBS setup. It has its own browser source link, stream servers, scenes, triggers and chat settings. Most streamers have one.
  • Stream server: where your encoder sends video. A switcher can have several, tried in order.
  • Triggers: the bitrate (kbps) and latency (ms) at which NOALBS switches.

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