Remote Access

When interacting with the Streamer.bot WebSocket Server, you may want to access your instance from other devices, such as your phone or another computer.

Depending on your use case, there are a few different ways to achieve this.

Local Area Network (LAN)

You can access your Streamer.bot instance over your local network by simply using the local IP address of the machine running Streamer.bot.

Configuration

By default, Streamer.bot's WebSocket server only listens to connections from localhost (i.e. the same machine).

To allow connections from other devices on your local network, you need to change the Address setting in the WebSocket settings.

You can listen to only LAN devices by setting Address to your LAN IP address, or you can simply listen on all adapters by setting Address to 0.0.0.0

Example

For example, if you have an HTML/Javascript overlay utilizing the Streamer.bot Client, you would change the host property to the local IP address of the machine running Streamer.bot.

const client = new StreamerbotClient({
  host: '192.168.1.10' // Replace with your local IP address
});

Mixed Content Restrictions

If you try to interact with the Streamer.bot WebSocket server via a web page hosted from https://, most web browsers will block ws:// connections to any non-localhost address due to mixed content restrictions.

There are a few ways to get around this:

• Secure You can use the other remote access methods below to securely connect via wss://
• Insecure You can use the --allow-running-insecure-content flag in Chromium based browsers
  • Note This flag will also work for OBS Studio and allow connections from any browser sources or docks, such as Streamer.bot Chat
• Insecure You can host your web page via http:// instead of https://

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

A VPN allows you to securely connect to your home network from anywhere in the world.

Tailscale

tailscale serve 8080

const client = new StreamerbotClient({
  host: 'device.my-tailnet.ts.net',
  port: 443,
  scheme: 'wss'
});