Three things
it does that
are hard to
do otherwise.
These are three of the reasons people go looking for something like this in the first place.
Your upload is
doing too much.
Send one stream to a server you rent, and let that relay fan out to its own list of destinations.
Home and venue internet often cannot sustain many simultaneous platform uploads. Send one clean stream up to a relay you own, and let that server split it out on a connection built for exactly that.
Point it at the server you rented, pick your SSH key, press one button. When it finishes you have your own cloud relay.
No subscription. The server is yours, from about $6 a month. Against a $39-a-month plan you are ahead inside six months and roughly $400 a year better off after that. Add streams and the gap widens; what you paid us does not move.
Drift is visible
Cast Beacon keeps checking what each relay is actually doing against what it was told, repairs the drift, and surfaces anything it is pushing that the configuration does not know about rather than quietly fixing it.
| From | Port | To | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service | push | Relay 01 · src | program |
| Relay 01 | plat | YouTube · A | program |
| Relay 01 | plat | Facebook · in | program |
| Relay 01 | plat | Kick · in | program |
| Relay 01 | plat | X · in | program |
Drag a node. Arrow keys work too.
Overflow without
expensive
hardware.
Wire the Chromecasts, Google TVs and Android TVs on your network to a stream, like any other output.
Putting the feed on a second screen has meant buying a box for it. A dedicated player averages about $330 a screen on Samsung's own total-cost-of-ownership figures — before cables, mounts and the time to hang them.
Cast Beacon uses the sticks and smart TVs already in the building. A Chromecast is $30. Four rooms is $120 of hardware instead of $1,320 — found on the network, wired by dragging, on your terms.
Screens can follow the stream
A screen can start showing its stream when that stream goes live and stop when it goes idle, without anyone walking over to it.
Automation with manners
An automatic stop leaves a screen alone if somebody is already using it for something else.
| From | Port | To | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service | TVs | Overflow Room | stream |
| Service | TVs | Foyer Screen | stream |
| Service | Displays | Operator Monitor | stream |
Drag a node. Arrow keys work too.
A dead feed
should not mean
a dead broadcast.
When the incoming feed drops, Cast Beacon cuts to a standby instead of dropping the broadcast.
Wire in a slate, a looping file, or a real backup source. If the primary dies, destinations get the standby rather than nothing — and when the primary comes back, it cuts back on its own.
Failover and recovery are automatic
You do not have to be watching, and there is nothing to press.
Use your own standby media
Point it at your own slate or video and that is what people see.
| From | Port | To | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|
| OBS Connector | feed | Service · src | disconnected |
| Cast Beacon Standby | out | Service · bkup | carrying |
| Service | push | YouTube · A | still connected |
| Service | push | Twitch · in | still connected |
Drag a node. Arrow keys work too.
Own
your stream.
These three mattered most to us. We would rather do a few things properly than a long list badly.
There is more in the app than this page shows — the node graph itself, named profiles you switch shows with, recording in both places, and one automation vocabulary across all of it. An MCP server and an in-app assistant that helps you run your stream are being built in now.
We kept the scope narrow so that the parts that exist actually work. Stop paying a subscription for a service that is not good enough.
Want it on
your machine?
Alpha access is free. We pick testers from the list in small groups, so we can keep up with what each group finds.