Set up streaming
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Create your account
Sign up in the QikStream dashboard with a one-time code sent to your email or phone, or with your Kick account. There are no passwords.
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Link your Kick channel
In the dashboard open Profile and connect Kick. QikStream uses it for your live status, chat commands and the map.
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Get a relay stream
Ask for a relay stream on Discord. Once it is ready, you find it under Streams in the dashboard: one address for your encoder and one Play address for OBS. Self-service creation is planned.
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Connect your encoder
Use QikStream Mobile (Android, beta) or your own encoder — Belabox, IRLbox or a phone app with bonded SRT — and paste your relay address. See Encoders for the exact values.
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Receive the stream in OBS
Add a source with your Play address. We recommend the IRL Source plugin; the built-in Media Source also works. See OBS integration.
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Go live
In OBS set your platform's stream URL and key under Settings → Stream, then Start Streaming. Your viewers watch on Kick, Twitch or YouTube as usual.
Optional extras
- 1
Add the OBS dock
Control scenes from chat and switch to BRB automatically when your signal drops. Add obs.qikstream.com as a custom browser dock in OBS.
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Appear on the live map
Share your location from QikStream Mobile and choose your visibility in the dashboard: always, only while live on Kick, or hidden.
Before your first stream
Test at home first
Start the encoder on Wi-Fi and check that the picture arrives in OBS before you head out.
Prepare a BRB scene
Viewers see it instead of a frozen picture when every connection fails at once.
Charge everything
Encoding and several connections drain batteries fast — bring a power bank.
Check the latency
A longer buffer survives weaker signal; a shorter one keeps the chat delay low.