Free bonding relays

SRTLA receivers in the UK, Singapore and Australia. Sign in with Twitch, no account with us, no subscription.

Bonding needs a server on the other end to put the links back together. Renting one is the usual answer. These are free instead, and they work with any app that speaks BELABOX-compatible srtla, not just ours.

Get a relay key

Locations

RegionHostPort
United Kingdomrelay-uk.lols.gg5000
Singaporerelay-sg.lols.gg5000
Australiarelay-au.lols.gg5000

Pick the one nearest you. A relay on the other side of the world adds hundreds of milliseconds and can fail to connect at all.

Setting it up

LOLS IRL (Android)

  1. Streams → +SRTLA
  2. Tap your nearest region and the host and port fill themselves in
  3. Paste your key into Stream id

Moblin (iOS)

Add a stream and paste this as the URL, with your key on the end:

srtla://relay-uk.lols.gg:5000?streamid=publish:PATH:PATH:PASSWORD

Your key already has the publish:… part filled in. Paste it whole. Make sure the stream you just edited is the selected one before going live, and grant Moblin camera and microphone permission: without the mic it connects, authenticates and then sends nothing at all, which looks like a server problem but isn't.

BELABOX, or anything else

Point it at the host and port above and use your key as the SRT stream id. If your app can talk to a self-hosted srtla_rec, it can talk to these. Going the other way and running your own receiver is covered in the self-hosting guide, ports and stream ids included.

Prefer to host your own? That works too. The app speaks standard BELABOX-compatible srtla, so pointing it at your own receiver is always an option and you are never locked in to us. These relays are a convenience, not a dependency.

Fair use

Each key includes 20 hours of streaming a month, well beyond ordinary IRL use, and there so the relays stay fast for everyone. Fair use is per person, not per key. Need more? Just ask. We would rather hear from you than have you hit a wall mid-stream.

Relays forward in real time and record nothing. Like any server you connect to, a relay sees your device's IP address while you stream; see the privacy policy.

Good to know

The relays are provided as-is, with no uptime guarantee. They're monitored and we care if they break, but if a stream absolutely must not drop, host your own receiver, which the app fully supports.

Anything else? The questions and answers page covers what the fair use allowance includes, what happens when a link dies mid-stream and which phones are supported.