Visual Siddur 201

Key Terms:

Poe
- Power over ethernet — you have to have a special ethernet switch (like a router, but just ports–no routing), but it means that the ethernet cable can power anything it plugs in to.
Ndi
- This is a video transport protocol that lets us move full-band video/audio with almost no latency from one place to another
Ip address
- You need to know what your local ip address is. Google “how to find my ip address”. You’re looking for your LOCAL address (ie, the address of your computer… most likely something like 192.168.1.17), not your public address (ie the address of your “home”)

Applications / Web Apps

Singular.live
- This is where our overlays / visual siddur lives. It is a website
- https://www.singular.live/nonprofits
OBS
- This is my recommended open-source live streaming production platform / encoder. This is where we will set up each of our “scenes” and configure all of the “sources” (eg webcam, mic, singular) that will be a part of each scene.
- https://obsproject.com/download
OBS Plugins
- OBS Websocket
  - This lets OBS talk to all of our other things
  - https://github.com/Palakis/obs-websocket/releases/tag/4.8.0
- NDI for OBS
  - This is the technology that we’ll use to send the stream to zoom
  - https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi/releases/tag/4.9.1
NDI Tools
- This is a powerful set of tools that lets us take the video/audio output from one place and seamlessly move it to another place with almost no latency.
- https://ndi.tv/tools/#download-tools

Recommended Hardware

Elgato Stream Deck XL ($250 or so)

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