How to connect YouTube and plan your streams

If you stream your courts on YouTube, connect your organization’s channel once, then add each event’s streams with the game each one starts at. Dodgeball Hub links every game to its moment in its court’s stream, so visitors can watch a game from the event’s schedule, and writes a chapter per game into the video when the stream ends.

Before you start

• You need to be a manager of your organization to connect a channel. Anyone who can edit an event can plan its streams.
• Have the Google account that manages your YouTube channel at hand.

Steps

1. In your organization’s menu, open Meine Organisation and click Informationen aktualisieren.

   

2. Under YouTube-Kanäle at the bottom of the page, click YouTube-Kanal verbinden.

   

3. Google asks you to sign in, to choose the account if you have several, and to allow Dodgeball Hub access to your YouTube account, which it needs to read your streams and write their chapters. Google then brings you back here: the page says Der Kanal ist verbunden. and lists the channel.

   

4. Click Als Standard festlegen. The channel is marked Standard für Events, and your events use it unless one chooses another.

   

5. Open your event’s planner and click Einstellungen at the bottom of the sidebar.

   

6. Open the Felder tab.

   

7. YouTube-Kanal shows the channel this event uses. Standard der Organisation follows your organization’s default; choose another of your channels if this event streams elsewhere.

   

8. Under Streams, paste a court’s stream link in YouTube-Videolink. A scheduled stream’s link works before it goes live.

   

9. In Beginnt mit Spiel, choose the first game the stream shows. The games are grouped by court.

   

10. Click Stream hinzufügen.

    

11. The stream is listed with its court and its status, Bevorstehend until it goes live. Add one for every court you stream.

    

How a stream plan works

• A stream covers its court from the game it starts at until the next stream on that court starts. If a court streams in several videos, such as one per day, add each one at its first game. A game joins its stream when it actually starts, so running late doesn’t matter.
• The channel and the streams save as soon as you change them; you don’t need Alle Einstellungsänderungen speichern. Choose another game under a stream to move its start, or click Entfernen to take it off the plan.
• Each stream’s line shows whether it’s Bevorstehend, Live or Beendet, how many games it links, and whether its chapters were written. Dodgeball Hub checks the streams regularly around the event. Once one has gone live, Streams jetzt synchronisieren appears at the top of the tab to check right away.
• On the event’s schedule, each court links to its stream for the day, and a game with a video offers Ansehen (Live ansehen while it’s on), starting the video where the game began.
• When a stream on the event’s channel ends, Dodgeball Hub writes a chapter for each game into the video’s description. To stop that, turn off Spielkapitel schreiben on the channel.

Look after your channel

• Trennen removes the channel: no more chapters are written, and events that used it switch to your default channel, or to none. Streams you planned stay listed.
• If Google stops letting Dodgeball Hub in, the channel is marked Muss neu verbunden werden. Click Erneut verbinden and sign in again.