Get a key, pick the right region, put it in the right field. Ten minutes at most, and no account with us.
Bonding needs a receiver at the far end, because the links your phone is sending across have to be put back into one stream before that stream goes on to Twitch or Kick. Running one is a perfectly good option and the app supports it fully (see self-hosting an SRTLA receiver). If you would rather not, the LOLS Cloud relays are free, already running, and this guide gets you onto one.
publish:live:yourname:yourpassword. Keep it to yourself: it is what proves a
stream is yours, so treat it exactly like a stream key and never paste it into a screenshot or
a Discord message.publish: prefix, so paste it whole. This one field is
the single most common setup mistake.wifi and one cell, means
you are bonded and the relay has accepted both. The
bonding guide explains the rest of the readings.| Region | Host | Port |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | relay-uk.lols.gg | 5000 |
| Singapore | relay-sg.lols.gg | 5000 |
| Australia | relay-au.lols.gg | 5000 |
Every kilometre between you and the relay is delay you cannot get back, and it is paid twice because SRT recovers lost packets by asking for them again. A relay on the other side of the planet adds hundreds of milliseconds to your glass to glass delay, makes every retransmission more expensive, and at the extreme can stop the connection establishing at all. Pick the nearest one even if another looks less busy.
The app suggests a region from your SIM's country, which needs no location permission and no lookup, and it is only a suggestion. If you are travelling, or your SIM is from somewhere you are not, choose the one that is actually closest to you.
Each key includes 20 hours of streaming a month. That is well past what ordinary IRL streaming uses, and it exists for one reason: a relay is a shared machine with a finite uplink, and a handful of people running unattended feeds around the clock would make it worse for everyone else. Fair use is counted per person rather than per key, so minting a second key does not reset anything.
If your streaming needs more than that, email and ask. We would far rather sort it out with you in advance than have you find a wall mid stream. And if you would rather not have an allowance at all, self-host your own receiver: the app treats a relay and your own box exactly the same, so nothing about your setup changes except the hostname.
The relays speak standard BELABOX compatible srtla, so they are not limited to our app. Moblin on iOS and BELABOX hardware both work with the same key, and the exact strings to paste are on the relays page.
Losing the key? Treat it like a stream key: if it leaks, mint a new one and stop using the old one. If something looks wrong at the relay end and you cannot tell whether it is you or us, ask in Discord or email support@lols.gg with the region and roughly when it happened.
Prefer your own receiver? Self-hosting an SRTLA receiver covers what to run and which ports matter. New to bonding entirely? Start with bonding in five minutes, or the FAQ.