Action cameras

By the end, your action camera will be broadcasting to your stream key and you’ll see it on Streaming in the dashboard.

You need: any plan with a stream key · the camera and its app on your phone · 10 minutes

What we know and what we don’t

What follows comes from what each manufacturer documents. We haven’t validated any specific model with us yet, so we can’t promise yours will work first time. If it connects (or if it doesn’t), tell us from Support: it helps us sharpen this page.

What they have in common

These cameras broadcast over RTMP from their app, and their apps want the URL and the key in the same field. So nothing gets split here:

• Copy the whole publish URL with Publish: with the port (:1936 on RTMPS, :1935 on RTMP) and with the /live/<your-key> at the end.
• Paste it as-is into the app’s field for streaming to a custom platform or RTMP.
• If getting it onto your phone is a pain, use your key’s QR code in the Other encoder format: it carries the publish URL as text, no typing.
• If the app lets you pick quality or bitrate, stay below your plan’s cap (Caps and states).

Which protocol to set for each one

Camera	App	Set the key to	What we know
GoPro (HERO7 Black and later)	Quik	RTMPS	Streams to a custom RTMP server and supports RTMPS
Insta360	The Insta360 app	RTMPS (if it won’t connect, RTMP)	A single field for the streaming address
DJI Osmo Pocket 3 and Osmo Action	Mimo	RTMP	Only RTMP is documented

GoPro

1. In the dashboard, open Stream Keys and set the Protocol selector to RTMPS.
2. Hit Publish to copy the URL. It starts with rtmps:// and carries :1936.
3. In Quik, connect the camera and go into the option to stream live to a custom platform (RTMP).
4. Paste the whole URL into the URL field. Don’t strip the port or the key.
5. Pick the quality and start streaming. In the dashboard, the key goes from No signal to Streaming.

Insta360

1. Set the key to RTMPS and copy the URL with Publish.
2. In the Insta360 app, go into live streaming to a custom platform or RTMP.
3. Paste the whole URL into the streaming address field (something like Streaming Address).
4. Start streaming. If it won’t connect, switch the key to RTMP, copy the new URL and paste it in again.

DJI

For the Osmo Pocket 3 and the Osmo Action, DJI only documents RTMP, so use RTMP.

1. Set the key to RTMP and copy the URL with Publish. It starts with rtmp:// and carries :1935.
2. In Mimo, go into live streaming to a custom platform or RTMP.
3. Paste the whole URL and start streaming.

On RTMP your key isn’t encrypted

On plain RTMP your key travels in the clear between the camera and our ingest server. On hotel or event wifi, that’s the part to watch. If you think someone may have seen it, rotate it.

Not working?

The camera won’t connect over RTMPS. Check the date and time on your phone and on the camera: if they’re wrong, the encrypted connection fails. If you’re at a hotel, an event or on a company network, it may be blocking port 1936: try mobile data. If it still won’t go, switch the key to RTMP and copy the URL again, because it changes.

It connects and the dashboard stays on No signal. The URL is old or trimmed. It happens every time you change the Protocol or the Region, or you Rotate the key. Copy it again with Publish and replace the whole URL in the app.

It’s fine standing still and drops the moment you walk. These cameras broadcast over RTMP, which handles a bad mobile network worst, and over a single connection. If you’re going to move around with poor coverage, broadcasting from your phone over SRTLA or SRT holds up far better: see Choosing a protocol.

Next step

• Choosing a protocol — RTMPS, RTMP, SRT or SRTLA, for your setup.
• The publish URL — how to read each piece of it.
• My feed isn’t arriving — the full run-through.