- Multistream is pinned on top. Your destinations are always in view, and the section can be collapsed (the Kit remembers).
- Below it, a stage strip: Pre-Flight > In-Flight. The dock shows one stage at a time. When you go live it switches to In-Flight by itself (you can turn that off in the Kit settings), and Done in Pre-Flight switches to In-Flight and stands by. Click a stage to take a look at it any time.
- Show all tools stacks every tool in one list instead of one stage at a time.
- Reset starts fresh after a stream: it clears the Pre-Flight checks and the In-Flight session log. Your settings stay. It is available whenever no stream session is active, including before your first stream.
- ? opens the manual. The gear opens the Kit settings, where each tool has its own switch. Turn a tool off and it disappears from the dock and does no work at all; its settings are kept. It takes effect the next time OBS starts, and you can switch a tool off only after the stream ends.
Red Warden BastionFree tools for OBS Studio
Red Warden Stream Kit
Free tools for OBS, from Red Warden Studios. One installer, one dock.
The Kit puts three tools in one OBS dock: Multistream sends your stream to several platforms at once, Pre-Flight checks your setup before you go live, and In-Flight watches your stream while you are live.
Free. Signed by a real LLC (Red Warden Studios LLC), so Windows shows who made it instead of “Unknown publisher”. Open source (GPL-2.0-or-later).
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The Kit
What's in the Kit
Tool one
Red Warden Multistream
Go live on YouTube, Twitch, Kick, TikTok, Facebook, Rumble, X or any RTMP server at the same time, from OBS's own Start Streaming button (every destination whose switch is on).
See Multistream Tool twoRed Warden Pre-Flight
A checklist that runs before you go live: mic, scene, stream settings, recording, and whether OBS is keeping up. It tells you in plain words what to fix.
See Pre-Flight Tool threeRed Warden In-Flight
A live watchdog while you stream: seven lights for your mic, desktop audio, scene, recording, network, PC and stream, a session log, and level meters in dB or LUFS.
See In-FlightThey work together in one dock, and you can switch off any tool you don't use.
One dock
All in one dock
The Kit adds one dock to OBS, named RW Stream Kit. Open it from OBS's Docks menu.
Red Warden Multistream
Go live everywhere with one button.
Red Warden Multistream sends your OBS stream to YouTube, Twitch, Kick, TikTok, Facebook, Rumble, X or any RTMP server at the same time. Press Start Streaming in OBS. That's it.
How it works
Install it.
Close OBS, run the installer, open OBS. The dock appears under Docks > RW Stream Kit, with Multistream at the top.
Add your platforms.
Click Add destination, pick a platform, paste its server and stream key. OBS keeps streaming to the platform in its own Settings > Stream; add every other platform here. Moving from obs-multi-rtmp or Aitum Multistream? The dock offers to import your destinations.
Press Start Streaming.
Every platform you switched on starts with OBS, and stops when OBS stops. Each card shows whether it connected. Flip a platform on or off at any time, even mid-stream.
Multistream features
Everything a multistream should do, and the things the others forgot.
At a glance
One dock, every platform, at a glance
Each platform gets a card: live or not, how much it's sending, and which encoder it uses. The header counts how many are live and how much of your upload the whole stream is using.
Light on your PC
No extra encoding
By default a platform shares OBS's own encoder: OBS encodes your stream once and every platform gets that same video and audio, so adding a platform adds no encoding work (just a little to send it).
When a platform needs something different (a lower bitrate, a 720p version, a different audio bitrate or track), give it its own encoder. Its audio starts out matching OBS's own bitrate and track.
Upload headroom
Know if your connection can carry it
Multistreaming sends a full copy of your stream to every platform, so upload adds up fast. The dock adds it up for you against your real upload speed (measure it with the built-in speed test while you're offline, or type it in), and warns you before you run out of headroom: an amber note above 75%, red above 90%.
Platform advice
Advice from OBS's own platform data
For platforms OBS lists, the card compares your settings (video bitrate, resolution, frame rate, keyframe interval, audio bitrate) with the values OBS recommends for that platform, and says so in plain words when one doesn't fit. It only covers the mismatches it knows how to advise on, and it never guesses limits for a platform OBS doesn't list.
Account safety
It protects your accounts
Streaming platforms guard their servers against floods of connections, and they don't publish where the line is. So the plugin gives every destination a hard connection budget, each destination counted on its own:
12attempts in any 10 minutes
40attempts in an hour
Every attempt the plugin makes counts: the first connect, reconnects, retries, restarts of a stalled output, the Twitch bandwidth test, even you mashing Retry. When the budget is spent, the card says it's pausing to protect your account, and when it will try again.
When OBS reports a rejected stream key or a broken server URL, the plugin stops retrying on its own. Retrying those can only hammer the platform, so the card tells you what's wrong and points you to Edit instead. Other connection failures are retried, always inside the budget.
Auto-reconnect
Drops fix themselves
If a platform drops your connection, the plugin reconnects on its own: after roughly 5 seconds, then 10, 20, 40, then about once a minute for ten tries, always inside the connection budget. After that it slows down to every 30 seconds, then 60 seconds, then every 2 minutes. Each wait varies by up to 20% so retries don't bunch up. The other platforms keep streaming untouched.
A connection that stays open but stops sending data is noticed and restarted too.
Stream report
A report after every stream
When you stop, the dock tells you in one line how the stream went. Open the report for every platform: how long it was live, every drop and recovery with timestamps, and how much it sent.
The last 50 reports are saved, and you can copy one to share.
Twitch
Test Twitch without going live
Twitch has a bandwidth-test option meant for exactly this: it isn't meant to go out to viewers. One click in a Twitch destination's settings sends a short test stream of about 20 seconds using that option (bandwidthtest=true) and tells you whether your connection to that Twitch server holds your bitrate.
Switching over
Coming from another multistream plugin?
Red Warden Multistream finds destinations saved in obs-multi-rtmp and Aitum Multistream and offers to import them, with their bitrates and encoder where it can read them (check each one's settings before you go live).
Imported destinations start switched off, so nothing goes live until you turn it on. (SRT destinations aren't supported yet; RTMP and RTMPS are.)
Hotkeys, Stream Deck and automation
Every platform gets its own on/off hotkey in OBS's Settings > Hotkeys, plus "all on" and "all off". Bind them to Stream Deck keys. Streamer.bot, Touch Portal, SAMMI and scripts can list and switch platforms through obs-websocket.
Your stream keys stay secret
Keys are kept in Windows Credential Manager, never in a settings file. Keep keys out of server URLs and destination names too, because OBS writes those into its log file. (Multistream rejects a server URL that contains a saved key of 8 or more characters, but it can't catch every case.)
Supported platforms
Built-in presets, with a hint on each telling you where to find the server and key:
- YouTube
- Twitch
- Kick
- TikTok Live
- Facebook Live
- Rumble
- X
Plus Custom RTMP for anything else that takes an rtmp:// or rtmps:// address (Restream, a self-hosted relay, other platforms). SRT isn't supported yet.
If you switch Multistream off in the Kit settings, its hotkeys are gone after the next OBS start.
Red Warden Pre-Flight
Know you're ready before you hit Go Live.
The checklist
Pre-Flight is the first stage of the RW Stream Kit dock: a short checklist. Each line is a green tick, an amber warning or a red problem, with one plain sentence telling you what to fix. Is your mic muted? Is the right scene up? Is there room on your disk? Check them in a few seconds instead of finding out ten minutes into a stream.
Set it up once
The first time, the stage shows a Set up Pre-Flight card instead of checks. Settings asks:
- How do you stream? OBS's normal Stream button, Red Warden Multistream, or both. This decides which stream checks appear.
- Your microphone, your desktop / game audio (optional) and your starting scene.
- Whether you record your streams.
- Which checks to run (switch off any you don't want), and your own checklist.
Pre-Flight remembers your mic, audio and scene by the source itself, so renaming one in OBS doesn't break it. If one gets deleted, the check turns amber and asks you to pick again.
What each check does
| Check | What it looks at | Green / amber / red |
|---|---|---|
| Mic unmuted | Whether your chosen mic is muted in OBS. | Green when it's on. Red if it's muted, missing, or not an audio source. Amber until you choose a mic. |
| Mic test | You press Test mic and say something. Pre-Flight listens for 5 seconds, then shows two numbers: Loudest (your highest peak) and Typical (the average level of the sound that wasn't silence), in dB, for example -8.2 dB. A silent mic reads -inf. | Green if the loudest moment was above -30 dB and clearly above the room's background level (it measures loudness, not speech). Amber if you haven't tested yet, or the mic is very quiet (move closer or turn up its gain). Red if no sound came from the mic, or it was muted during the test. |
| Desktop audio | Whether your desktop / game audio source is muted. Only shown if you chose one. | Green when it's on. Red if muted. Amber if the source is gone and needs picking again. |
| Starting scene | Whether the scene you picked is the one live in OBS right now (in Studio Mode, the one on the program output). | Green when it is. Red if a different scene is live. Amber if you haven't chosen one, or it was deleted. |
| Main stream | Whether OBS's own stream (Settings > Stream) has a server and a key. Only shown if you stream with OBS's normal button. | Green when OBS reports the stream as set up (that doesn't prove the server will accept it). Amber if the key looks empty (some servers carry it in the address). Red if no server is set or the service isn't fully set up. For stream services Pre-Flight can't judge, it says so rather than guess. |
| Multistream | Asks Red Warden Multistream which destinations are switched on. Only shown if you stream with Multistream. | Green when at least one destination is switched on, naming them (it doesn't test the connection or key). Red if none are on. Amber if Multistream isn't found. |
| Recording | Only if you said you record. Checks that OBS will start recording with your stream, that your recording folder exists and OBS can write to it, and how much space is left. | Amber if OBS isn't set to record automatically when you stream (it tells you how to turn that on) or if under 20 GB is free. Red if the folder is missing or not writable, or under 5 GB is free. If recordings go to a web address, Pre-Flight says it can't check that. |
| OBS keeping up | Whether OBS is dropping frames. It watches for 30 seconds. Before you're live it looks at rendering; while you're live it also watches encoding and your network. | Green while losses are small. Amber above 0.5% of frames, red above 2%, with a hint (close other programs, lower your bitrate, use a wired connection). |
| Your checklist | Your own items, ticked by hand. | Green when every item is ticked. Red while any is not, listing which. |
Mic test numbers
Your checklist is for the things only you know: "Phone on Do Not Disturb", "Chat window open", "Water by the desk". Ticks start over when your stream ends, so you go through them again next time.
A Mic test result is cleared when your stream stops, when you press Reset, when you change scene collection and when you pick a different mic, so you test again before the next stream.
Check & Go Live
Check & Go Live runs through the list:
- If nothing is red, it asks OBS to start its main stream right away. Check that OBS connects; your switched-on Multistream destinations join once it's running. While you are live the button reads Live and is greyed out.
- If anything is red, a box lists the problems (and anything amber or unclear, as "Also worth a look") with two buttons: Go live anyway or Cancel. Your call; Pre-Flight just makes sure you know.
Amber warnings never stop anything. They're a nudge.
It never gets in your way
Pre-Flight does not block OBS's own Start Streaming button, and it never stops a stream that has started. If you press OBS's button while something is red, the stream starts as normal and a short banner in the Pre-Flight dock tells you what was wrong ("You went live with problems: ..."), which you can dismiss.
Done and Levels
Done says you finished checking: the dock switches to In-Flight and stands by. Levels shows or hides the level meters so you can check your mic and sound before you go live (see "Levels" under In-Flight).
Works alongside Multistream
Use either one on its own, or both. With "Both" or "Red Warden Multistream" chosen in Pre-Flight's settings, Pre-Flight checks that at least one Multistream destination is switched on before you go live. Pre-Flight reads Multistream directly inside OBS. The tools share one dock but keep their own settings.
Red Warden In-Flight
Know how the stream is going while you are on air.
While you are live
In-Flight is the second stage of the RW Stream Kit dock. While you are live it shows seven lights and a status line: "Standing by" when you are off the air, "Watching" while you are live. It counts you as live when OBS is streaming, or when any Multistream destination is live or reconnecting. Each light is a circle you can click for details: what is wrong, when it began ("Since hh:mm:ss") and what to try.
Seven lights
Green is fine, amber is "check soon", red is failing, a dashed ring means "can't tell yet", and a grey ring means the light is off. Any light can be switched off in In-Flight's settings.
| Light | What it watches |
|---|---|
| Mic | Red at once if the mic is inactive, missing or not an audio source. If it is muted: amber after 20 seconds, red after 60. If OBS has sent no audio data for 5 seconds it shows "can't tell". Optional: amber when the mic is very quiet (off by default). |
| Desktop | Red if the desktop / game audio source is missing or muted. Amber after 120 seconds of digital silence. |
| Scene | Watches your "holding scenes", such as a be-right-back screen. Amber when you stay on one past its time limit (default 5 minutes), red 5 minutes after that. Grey if you set none. |
| Rec | Grey ("Turned off") if you don't record. Red if recording hasn't started within 60 seconds of going live, or if it stopped. Amber if paused. |
| Net | Dropped frames on OBS's main stream and on each Multistream destination, each judged on its own (see below). |
| PC | Late frames from rendering and skipped frames from the encoder, over the last 30 seconds. Amber above 0.5%, red above 2%. It says "Still measuring your PC" while it fills its window. |
| Stream | Green while OBS's own stream is active. If OBS reports an error code when the stream stops, the light stays red ("Stream dropped (code ...)") until you acknowledge it or a new session starts. |
A bad light clears only after it has been fine for 10 seconds, which stops flicker. The numbers behind the lights (mic timers, silence time, drop thresholds, recording grace) can be changed in In-Flight's Advanced settings.
When a light goes red
A new red light flashes once, and the dock title gets a dot in front of its name until you deal with it. You can switch on a sound for a new red light (a system beep, off by default). Then:
- Acknowledge says you saw it.
- Snooze 10 min dims the light and holds back the flash for 10 minutes. The problem is still there.
Session log
Click Session log to see a running list, up to 200 lines, such as "hh:mm:ss Net started ..." with the action word started, got worse, ended or acknowledged. Reset clears it. The log covers the current session only and has no copy or export button, so note down anything you need before you reset.
Network
A Network light that knows which destination is the problem
The Net light judges the main OBS stream and every live Multistream destination separately, each over its own 30-second window. One bad destination can't hide behind a good one, and a good one can't hide a bad one. A destination that is reconnecting is amber and isn't judged for drops. Dropping more than 0.5% of frames is amber, more than 2% is red (both changeable in Advanced settings). The light shows the worst output.
Click it and you see which output is the problem, how much it has dropped, what to try, and a line such as "Main stream and YouTube are fine". If the worst problem is a Multistream destination, a button Turn off <destination> drops just that one and keeps the rest of the stream going.
Levels
Levels
Levels shows live meters for your mic, desktop audio and any other sources you add. It starts collapsed; open it with the Levels button in Pre-Flight or the Levels header in In-Flight.
- dB mode: a bar from -60 to 0 dBFS with a peak and a smoothed average. Green up to -12, amber above -12, red above -3.
- LUFS mode: loudness as people hear it, shown as Now (the last 0.4 seconds) and 3s avg (the last 3 seconds). Optional True peak (shown in dBTP; keep it below -1 dBTP) and optional Reference, a line at a level you choose (the Kit never suggests a target).
- Compare sources: lines such as "Mic is 6.8 LU over Desktop Audio" tell you how your sources sit against each other.
- The meters run only while the Levels section is open and on screen.
Set it up
Set it up
The first time, In-Flight asks you to choose your microphone and scenes. You can Copy my choices from Pre-Flight, Choose by hand..., or Set up later.
What it connects to. In-Flight makes no network connections of its own. It watches OBS and Multistream from inside OBS.
Download
Get Red Warden Stream Kit.
Red Warden Stream Kit 1.1.0
One plugin with all three tools: Red Warden Multistream, Red Warden Pre-Flight and Red Warden In-Flight.
FreeNo account, no watermark, no paid tier.
There is nothing to tick: the installer installs one plugin with all three tools. The zip holds one folder, rws-stream-kit, plus the licence and notice files and install instructions.
Verify your download (SHA-256)
Compare these with the result of Get-FileHash <file> in PowerShell.
RedWardenStreamKit-1.1.0-Setup.exe12a3c04499403e9a8e85904d061b5a83cb9dc73ff6d638952c78ee53edb56f03
RedWardenStreamKit-1.1.0.zip3b5851430bb96468d1e814bf038d183cf099b9e321e379a838fef97988b534c1
Manual
The full manual for 1.1.0 is on this site: every control in the dock, the lights, Levels, settings, hotkeys, automation, updates, privacy and troubleshooting. The dock's ? button opens the same manual.
Read the manualRequirements
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
- OBS Studio 31.1 or newer (the Kit is designed for 31.1 and up; the installer doesn't check which OBS you have)
- Close OBS before installing. If the installer sees OBS running, it asks you to close it before it continues.
Install, update, remove
Install: close OBS (the installer asks if it sees OBS still running), run the installer, finish, open OBS. Look in the Docks menu for RW Stream Kit. Windows will ask for permission, because the plugin installs into the folder OBS shares between all users. The publisher shows as Red Warden Studios LLC.
One plugin. The Kit is a single plugin (rws-stream-kit) holding Multistream, Pre-Flight and In-Flight. There are no per-tool choices in the installer: switch a tool off or on later in the Kit settings (gear in the dock > Tools), then restart OBS.
Upgrading from 1.0.x: run the 1.1.0 installer over the old install. The separate Multistream and Pre-Flight docks are replaced by the one RW Stream Kit dock. The installer removes the files of the older plugins it replaces and touches nothing else, so your destinations, stream keys, reports, hotkeys and settings carry over.
Already have the standalone Multistream installer? Just run the Kit installer. It removes the old Multistream for you first and keeps your destinations and stream keys. (If the old one can't be removed, the installer says so and asks you to remove it from Windows Settings > Apps, then run it again.)
Update later: run a newer Kit installer the same way. Your settings and stream keys are kept.
Uninstall: Windows Settings > Apps > Installed apps > Red Warden Stream Kit (OBS plugins). The uninstaller removes the plugin files; your destinations, settings and stream keys are stored elsewhere (OBS's settings folders and Windows Credential Manager), so reinstalling picks them back up. (Removing one platform inside the Multistream section is different: that also deletes its saved stream key.)
No installer? Close OBS. If you have Kit 1.0.x or the standalone Multistream, delete the rws-multistream, rws-preflight and rws-inflight folders from C:\ProgramData\obs-studio\plugins\ (leave OBS's plugin_config folder alone; it holds your settings). Then copy the rws-stream-kit folder from the zip into that plugins folder (or into a portable OBS's own plugins folder), and start OBS. Don't leave old tool folders beside the new one.
What's new
Version 1.1.0 2026-10-12
One plugin, one dock, and a new tool: In-Flight watches your stream while you are live.
- One dock for everything. Multistream, Pre-Flight and In-Flight now live in a single "RW Stream Kit" dock. Multistream stays on top; below it the dock moves from Pre-Flight to In-Flight when you go live. Your destinations, stream keys and settings carry over from 1.0.x.
- New: In-Flight. Seven lights (Mic, Desktop, Scene, Rec, Net, PC, Stream) show at a glance whether your stream is healthy, with one plain sentence when something needs you.
- A network light for every stream. It judges OBS's own stream and each Multistream destination on its own, names the one that is dropping frames, and can turn just that one off while the rest keep going.
- Levels. Live meters for your mic and desktop audio, in dB or LUFS, with true peak and an optional reference line.
- Mic test numbers. Pre-Flight's mic test now shows how loud you were: Loudest and Typical.
- Less setup. If Pre-Flight already knows your mic, In-Flight uses the same audio choices automatically.
- Tools on or off in Kit settings, instead of checkboxes in the installer.
- A user manual, installed with the Kit and opened from the dock's ? button.
Install: close OBS and run RedWardenStreamKit-1.1.0-Setup.exe. It replaces Kit 1.0.x and the standalone Multistream and keeps your settings.
Windows 10/11 64-bit, designed for OBS Studio 31.1 or newer. Signed by Red Warden Studios LLC. Source is in this repository (GPL-2.0-or-later); this release was built from tag kit-v1.1.0.
Support: support@redwardenstudios.com
Updates & privacy
Updates, and what the Kit talks to.
Updates
With update checks on (the default), the Kit checks once per OBS start, about 15 seconds after the dock loads, whether a newer version exists. If there is one, you see one notice at the top of the dock for the whole Kit, with a Download link that opens this page and a Not now button (either hides the notice until the next OBS start). Nothing is downloaded or installed automatically. You can switch the check off in the Kit settings, on the Updates page ("Tell me when an update is available"); the same switch appears in In-Flight's Advanced settings.
People on an older OBS than the new version needs are told which OBS version to get first, instead of being offered a version that won't load.
Privacy, in plain words
No account and no analytics. The Kit only connects to:
- the streaming servers you add in Multistream (that's where your stream goes);
- Cloudflare's public speed test (
speed.cloudflare.com), only when you run Multistream's upload test (it sends throwaway test data), and Twitch, only when you run the optional bandwidth test; - redwardenstudios.com, once per OBS start with update checks on, to look for a newer version. The request has no body and carries the Kit version in its User-Agent, and our server sees ordinary connection details such as your IP address, like any website does (see the FAQ). Switch it off in the Kit settings.
Pre-Flight and In-Flight make no network connections of their own. Your stream keys are kept in Windows Credential Manager, not in a settings file.
FAQ
Questions streamers ask.
Is it really free?
Yes. No paid version, no watermark, no limits, no account.
Why is it open source?
So you can see exactly what runs inside your OBS, and so it can't quietly change. The Kit is licensed GPL-2.0-or-later, and the source is published with every release.
Does it collect any data?
No account and no analytics. Your stream goes only to the servers you add, and the optional upload and Twitch tests talk to their own servers. Our website hears from the Kit in one way: once each time OBS starts (with update checks on), the Kit asks for a small file saying what the newest version is. That's a plain HTTPS GET request for https://redwardenstudios.com/updates/stream-kit.json, sent with a User-Agent of RedWardenStreamKit/<version> (for example RedWardenStreamKit/1.1.0), so it includes the Kit version, and our server sees your IP address like any website does. It sends no account or stream information. Turn the check off in the Kit settings to stop future checks.
Why does "signed" matter?
Most free streaming tools are unsigned: Windows calls the publisher "Unknown", and you have no way to know who made the file or whether it was changed. The installer is signed by Red Warden Studios LLC, so Windows shows exactly who published it, and the signature breaks if anyone tampers with the file. (A brand-new download can still get a SmartScreen "not commonly downloaded" notice for its first days while it builds reputation; the publisher name is how you know it's the real one.)
I upgraded and my Multistream and Pre-Flight docks are gone. Where did they go?
In 1.1.0 they are one dock. Open OBS's Docks menu and choose RW Stream Kit. Multistream is pinned at the top, and Pre-Flight and In-Flight are the two stages below it. Your destinations, stream keys and settings carried over. If you still see two or more old docks, an older plugin is still installed: run the Kit installer again, or remove the old rws-multistream, rws-preflight and rws-inflight folders from the plugins folder, and restart OBS.
How do I turn a tool off?
Click the gear at the top of the dock to open the Kit settings, go to the Tools page, clear the tool's switch and save. It takes effect the next time OBS starts. A tool that is off disappears from the dock and does no work at all; its settings are kept, so turning it back on later restores them. You can switch a tool off only after the stream ends.
Is In-Flight using my CPU?
In-Flight watches OBS and Multistream from inside OBS and makes no network connections. A few specifics: its checks run about once a second; the Levels meters run only while the Levels section is open and on screen; and if you switch In-Flight off in the Kit settings it is not loaded at all after the next OBS start, so it does no work. We don't publish a CPU figure.
Does Multistream slow my PC down?
By default, platforms share the encoder OBS is already running, so adding one costs upload bandwidth and a little sending work, not another encode. Only a platform you give its own encoder adds encoding work.
What about my internet?
Every Multistream platform gets its own full copy of the stream. OBS's own stream plus three more platforms at 6 Mbps each need about 24 Mbps of upload. The Multistream section adds this up for you and warns before you run out.
Where does OBS's own stream go?
Exactly where it always did: the platform in OBS's Settings > Stream. Add your other platforms in the Multistream section. Every destination whose switch is on starts and stops with OBS's Start Streaming button.
What happens if one platform drops?
Only that one is affected. Multistream reconnects it by itself, and the others keep streaming. In-Flight's Net light names the destination that is dropping frames and can turn it off.
Could Multistream get my account flagged for connecting too often?
That's what the connection budget is for. Each destination is limited to 12 connection attempts in 10 minutes and 40 in an hour, and when OBS reports a rejected key it stops retrying.
Will Pre-Flight stop me going live?
No. OBS's own Start Streaming button always works. Check & Go Live asks you to confirm if something is red, and you can always choose Go live anyway.
Can I turn a platform on or off while I'm live?
Yes: with its switch in the Multistream section, a hotkey, a Stream Deck key, or an obs-websocket tool like Streamer.bot.
Mac or Linux?
Not yet: Windows only for now.
I use obs-multi-rtmp or Aitum Multistream.
Multistream offers to import your destinations. Once you've switched, remove them from the old plugin: it keeps stream keys in a plain-text settings file.
Can I use the source code?
Yes, it's GPL. The names "Red Warden", "Red Warden Studios", "Red Warden Stream Kit", "Red Warden Multistream", "Red Warden Pre-Flight", "Red Warden In-Flight" and the Red Warden logos and emblems are trademarks of Red Warden Studios LLC and aren't covered by the GPL, so a modified version needs its own name and logo.
Something went wrong.
Email support@redwardenstudios.com. For Multistream problems, its stream report (Copy report button) is the most useful thing to include. The manual's Troubleshooting section covers the common ones.
Who made this
There's a whole studio behind these plugins.
The Red Warden Stream Kit comes from Red Warden Studios, a small independent studio that builds software, writes fiction, makes music and streams. If the Kit earned a minute of your time, the rest of the place might too.
The streamer
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The Commander's channels. Twitch and Kick, the same stream at the same time.
Meet the Commander SoftwareRed Warden Bastion
The division that built the Kit, and LLypses, a room full of minds.
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