Pick the service, add a camera and sound, check where it is going, and go live — then know it worked and where the replay will be.
You can stream a service from a web browser or from the Hubl Live desktop app. Both use the same Control Room, and a stream always goes out to your church’s own watch page. It can go to YouTube and Facebook at the same time.
Note
Before you start. Going live is part of the Full plan. You need a role that can go live — the A/V Team and Streaming Director role templates both can. For YouTube or Facebook, connect them first: Connect YouTube and Facebook for streaming. Stream from a computer, in the browser or the desktop app.
Open the Control Room
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Open Streaming
From your admin dashboard, open Ministry, then Streaming. If a broadcast is already running, you see it at the top with Rejoin broadcast — use that rather than starting a second one.
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Choose Go Live and pick the service
The dialog asks What are you going live for? Pick the service or event. That puts the stream on the service’s page for visitors and files the broadcast under the right date. Hubl reuses the same stream for that service every week. There is nothing to create or clean up.
Tip
Once a service has been streamed, its page on your website shows a Go live button to anyone who can broadcast. It opens the Control Room for that service directly.
Warning
Just go live starts a stream that is not tied to any service. It works, but the broadcast will not appear on the service page and that Sunday will look like it was skipped. Pick the service unless the stream really stands alone. If you picked the wrong one, you can move the broadcast afterwards.
Nothing goes out until you press Go live. The top bar reads Standby until then.
Add what people will see and hear
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Add a camera or a screen
Choose Add under Inputs. Add camera uses a webcam or capture device on this computer. Add screen shares a screen, window or browser tab, for slides or lyrics. Allow access when your browser asks. Go live stays locked until you have at least one picture source.
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Add sound
Choose Add again, then Add audio. Pick your soundboard or audio interface, not the laptop’s built-in microphone. The Sound section shows a level meter. If it warns about processing, clipping or silence, see Fix stream audio problems.
Tip
Set your mixer so the loudest moments stay out of the red. Hubl sends stereo at a fixed 128 kbps and does not lower quality during a broadcast. Clipping that happens at the board cannot be fixed later.
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Choose the scene you open on
The Scenes strip sets the whole look: camera, slides, or both. The scene marked Opening on is what viewers see first. Many churches open on Before service, a countdown to the service start time. See Switch scenes and put text on screen.
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Check where it is going
The top bar lists every destination after Streaming to: always your Watch page, plus YouTube and Facebook if they are switched on. The gear opens Stream settings to change the title, description, countdown and destinations.
Go live
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Press Go live
If the top bar says Streaming servers offline — click Go Live to start, Hubl first starts servers for you and shows Starting streaming servers. That usually takes a minute or two. It is why you should open the Control Room at least ten minutes before the service. Then confirm, and the broadcast starts.
Members who receive the go-live notification can tap it to open that broadcast in the Hubl Life app, including broadcasts without a linked event.
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Check that it worked
The top bar changes from Standby — nothing is going out yet to Live with a running clock, and shows how many people are watching. Open Watch page on a phone to see and hear what viewers get. YouTube can take 10–30 seconds to show the picture.
Note
Hubl checks your YouTube and Facebook connections when you press Go live. If one has stopped working, you get a red banner with a Reconnect button, and the broadcast will not start until you fix it or switch that destination off.
Warning
Keep the Control Room open while you are live. If the tab or app closes, what you were sending stops. Reopen Streaming and choose Rejoin broadcast. For drops and freezes, see My stream is offline, frozen, or disconnected.
End the broadcast
Choose End stream and confirm. Hubl stops sending, finishes the YouTube and Facebook broadcasts so they become videos on your channel and Page, and records the session under Past streams.
Where the replay goes
YouTube and Facebook keep their own copies. The service page on your website plays the YouTube one.
A Hubl recording is only kept if your church has the Cloud Recording Storage add-on. Without it, the broadcast is watchable live on your website but is not saved on Hubl after it ends.
Open a stream from Streaming and turn on Capture transcriptbefore going live. It is off by default, and someone with Manage live streamingmust change it between broadcasts. If capture is unavailable, the setting explains why.
In that stream's Broadcast History, expand Transcriptfor a broadcast. Finalized phrases appear with timestamps as speech is captured, and stay there after it ends. From a linked service page, Staff transcripts and broadcast historyopens the same history. Capture continues without this reading page open.
Permissions
Transcripts are visible only to staff who can Go live or Manage live streaming. Changing capture settings requires Manage live streaming.
Note
Transcripts include announcements and other broadcast speech, may contain mistakes, and do not replace pastor-authored notes. They are saved independently of cloud recording. An Interruptedstatus or missing-audio interval means part of the speech was not captured; a capture failure does not stop the broadcast.
Letting someone else run the stream
In People → Roles, give a volunteer the A/V Team template, or add Go live to an existing role. That lets them start and end broadcasts and see past streams, but not change settings or delete recordings. Streaming Director can also manage streaming and connect YouTube and Facebook.
Note
Someone with Go live can stream any service that has been streamed before. The first broadcast for a service, and Just go live, need someone with Manage live streaming. Have a director start each service once, and the A/V team can take it from there.