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 我的组织 and click 更新信息.

   

2. Under YouTube 频道 at the bottom of the page, click 连接 YouTube 频道.

   

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 频道已连接。 and lists the channel.

   

4. Click 设为默认. The channel is marked 赛事默认频道, and your events use it unless one chooses another.

   

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

   

6. Open the 场地 tab.

   

7. YouTube 频道 shows the channel this event uses. 组织默认 follows your organization’s default; choose another of your channels if this event streams elsewhere.

   

8. Under 直播, paste a court’s stream link in YouTube 视频链接. A scheduled stream’s link works before it goes live.

   

9. In 起始比赛, choose the first game the stream shows. The games are grouped by court.

   

10. Click 添加直播.

    

11. The stream is listed with its court and its status, 即将开始 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 保存所有设置更改. Choose another game under a stream to move its start, or click 移除 to take it off the plan.
• Each stream’s line shows whether it’s 即将开始, 直播 or 已结束, 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, 立即同步直播 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 观看 (观看直播 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 写入比赛章节 on the channel.

Look after your channel

• 断开连接 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 需要重新连接. Click 重新连接 and sign in again.