IRL Streaming Gear: Use Speedify Instead of a LiveU Solo or Gunrun Backpack to Stay Online While You Move

Use a Raspberry Pi with Speedify Channel Bonding Technology

A Gunrun backpack built around a LiveU Solo is the reflex answer for IRL streaming gear, and it works – but the price starts near $1,600, which is a lot for one creator to spend on staying online.

Speedify is an app that does the same core job in software: it moves your broadcast over two or more internet connections at once – Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular data, wired Ethernet, Starlink and others – so one weak cellular signal cannot end a stream. This walkthrough weighs a Raspberry Pi rig against a LiveU Solo, lists the components and software, and gets you live with Speedify for a fraction of the cost.

What You Should Look at when Choosing Your IRL Streaming Gear

Along with a camera or smartphone for the video part, you should also make sure you have a fast and reliable Internet connection, so, you need a way to use multiple connections at once.

In our example, we installed Speedify on a Raspberry Pi 4. With Speedify, we have the only VPN capable of software channel bonding, so we were able to incorporate the bonding part of the technology right off the bat.

IRL Streaming Gear: Components List

Below you’ll find a sample list of components we used in our IRL streaming gear budget alternative. As long as you find similar hardware with the same functionalities, you should be good to go.

Sample components and costs

The total budget for this IRL streaming gear is about $200 plus the cost of the smartphone, if you don’t have one alreay. This is still significantly cheaper than the Gunrun backpack. Plus – you may not need to purchase all of this equipment if you already have similar items available.

IRL Streaming Gear – Software You Need

As mentioned before, one of the core elements of this live streaming backpack is Speedify, the only app that can combine multiple internet sources into one bonded super-connection for more stable and secure live streaming, video calling, and web browsing. You can easily set up Speedify on your Raspberry Pi using the instructions here.

And, as mentioned above, if you want to live stream to more than one platform at once: Twitch, YouTube, Facebook Live, Instagram, etc. – you need a dedicated streaming solution. Here are some examples:

Get the IRL Streaming Gear Live

At first, we tried building OBS on the Raspberry Pi, but came to the conclusion that it is too unstable. Plus, the streaming quality is limited by the hardware capabilities of the Raspberry Pi.

So we decided to use the Raspberry Pi as a bonding router only (see video above), sharing the bonded Internet connection to the smartphone via Wi-Fi. This is ideal for being able to operate this setup, in a backpack. 

You can use any streaming solution that supports the operating system you have on your smartphone – iOS or Android.

All you have to do is:

  • connect your smartphone via Wi-Fi to the fast and reliable bonded Internet from the Raspberry Pi – check out this guide on how to set that up.
  • start the livestream from your smartphone – either through the dedicated streaming solution or directly from the social media platform’s app.

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