Streaming to BATC using Portsdown2020 Link-Pi encoder and IPTSIN

[g7kpm]

I have been trying to configure a PI3 running Portsdown2020 to stream to the BATC using IPTSIN.
I have a link-Pi encoder streaming 1080P H264 UDP to the Pi's IP address on port 10000 and the encoder reports that it is push encoding OK but I cannot get it to work. The Pi streams OK if the source is set to the built in static F testcard in the menu so the stream URL and key is correct.
Can anyone assist with this or can anyone advise if the Link-Pi encoder can stream to the BATC directly (and advise on the correct configuration) without the Pi as I can't get that to work either!
Thanks in advance.
Jason

[G3GJA]

Jason

There's no need to use a Portsdown; the Link-Pi will stream directly to the BATC stream server.

Here is the config for GB3EY that uses this method:

Link-Pi config

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You are interested in the Sub Stream settings; the Main Stream is sent to the repeater's transmitter.

Breaking the composite picture down, the top quarter is the Encode configuration.
Next one down is the overall Stream config.
Following that is the Stream config tab.
At the bottom is the Stream Play URL tab with GB3EY's key obfuscated.

Hope that helps

Clive G3GJA

[g7kpm]

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Hi Clive,

Thank you for the reply. It looks like my Link-Pi encoder has different firmware to yours as the GUI is different and it keeps putting a :0 at the end of the stream URL!
e.g. udp://@rtmp.batc.org.uk/live/gb3ct-STREAMKEY:0

I think this is why it isn't working

[G8GKQ]

Jason

Try: rtmp://@rtmp.batc.org.uk/live/gb3ct-STREAMKEY

Not UDP.

Dave

[G3GJA]

Well spotted Dave!

Clive

[g7kpm]

Hi Clive and Dave,

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I figured it out eventually! The main stream configuration page would not accept the BATC URL in the correct format as it kept adding UDP:// to the start and :<port number> at the end of the URL automatically every time save was clicked.
In the push page as above, the URL could be correctly added in the custom tab (not the RTMP tab) with the sub stream selected for an H264 stream. At first the encoder was showing that it was streaming and CTs stream was showing as active, but not displaying video which was down to incorrect selection of main and sub stream, the main stream being H265.

Thank you both for your help

73, Jason