Can I IRL stream with no computer at all?

Yes, if the compositing happens somewhere other than your house. A phone alone can send a stream to Twitch, but then the broadcast is tied to your field connection and ends when that connection does. Stage runs the compositing in our cloud, so there is no PC at home and no local OBS to crash.

Not at home. Stage does the work OBS would normally do: overlays, alerts, your BRB screen, filters. There is nothing to install, update or restart.

Is a relay enough on its own if I have no PC?

No. A relay hands you a clean bonded feed, but something still has to composite it and stay connected to the platform, and in the relay setup that something is your own OBS. Without a PC you need the compositing hosted, which is what Stage does.

How to IRL Stream Without a PC at Home

Every other setup guide on this site ends the same way: pull the relay into your own OBS. That instruction quietly assumes a PC at home, powered on and stable for the entire time you are out walking. If you do not own one, or do not want to leave one running unattended, that whole architecture is closed to you.

No PC

nothing at your house

Phone only

Moblin or IRL Pro

Up to 3

destinations at once

Why the usual setup needs a PC

The relay architecture works because your own OBS is the thing connected to Twitch or Kick. Your phone bonds its connections and sends to the relay, the relay hands OBS a clean feed as a media source, and OBS holds the platform session no matter what your field connection does.

That is genuinely the right answer for most people, and it is cheaper. It just has a hard requirement in the middle of it: a machine at home doing the compositing, which has to survive the whole broadcast without you there to fix it.

What replaces it

Stage moves that machine into our cloud. Your phone sends to an ingest, Stage does the compositing that OBS would have done, and Stage hands the finished picture to your destinations. Nothing in the chain lives in your flat.

It is not a rented cloud OBS. There is no desktop to log into, no plugins to install, and no instance for you to keep alive. You configure it from Discord while you are moving, or from your browser at a desk.

Getting your phone into it

Stage comes with its own ingest, so there is no separate relay to point at first.

In Discord, run /ingest info with format: moblin or format: irlpro. It replies with a QR code.
Scan it. The app imports the bonded SRTLA URL directly, with plain SRT kept as a backup connection.
On anything that is not a phone, including a Belabox or a LiveU, run the same command without a format and paste the SRTLA or SRT URL into the encoder by hand.

Bonding still matters here

Removing the PC does not remove the need to bond. Your phone is still on cellular, and a single connection still dies under a bridge. Run at least two so SRTLA has somewhere to go.

Adding destinations

/destinations create adds Twitch, Kick, or any custom RTMP or SRT address. Three can run at the same time. Kick uses a per-user address you copy from your own Kick settings rather than a shared one.

What a dropout looks like

Stage watches your actual bitrate and round trip time rather than waiting for the connection to die outright. When the feed degrades it holds your picture with an unstable badge; when it drops far enough it cuts to your fallback scene, and it cuts back when you recover.

The fallback starts as a text card. Replace it with your own art using /fallback image, or a looping clip with /fallback video, attaching the file to the command itself. /fallback ingest goes further and makes a second encoder the fallback source, so a backup phone takes over instead of a still image.

By default it will keep broadcasting that fallback for a long time before giving up. /fallback timeout sets how long in minutes, where zero means keep going until you stop it.

What you give up

This is the part worth being straight about, because it is where Stage is the wrong answer:

No plugins, no VSTs, no Stream Deck, and no remote desktop into the machine.
No capture card or webcam at your house feeding in, since there is no machine there. A rented cloud OBS cannot do this either.
Sessions run 24 hours by default, and an instance with nothing streaming into it shuts down after ten minutes idle. Your scenes, destinations and ingest URL survive that and come back on restart. If you need to stay live longer than a day, ask and we will raise the cap.

If any of those are load-bearing for your show, the relay plus your own OBS is the better setup and you should stay on it.

What it costs

Stage is $45 a month and bundles an ingest. If you already pay $9.99 for an endpoint, the real difference is $35 a month, because the endpoint is included rather than charged twice. Stage+ is $65 and adds more tracks.

Stage is in early access and invite only, so there is no self-serve checkout yet. You request access and we open it.

See what Stage does

If you do have a PC and it is reliable, the cheaper path is worth reading first: keep your stream live when the signal drops is the relay and own-OBS version of the same problem.

FAQ

Can I IRL stream with no computer at all?: Yes, if the compositing happens somewhere other than your house. A phone alone can send a stream to Twitch, but then the broadcast is tied to your field connection and ends when that connection does. Stage runs the compositing in our cloud, so there is no PC at home and no local OBS to crash.
Do I still need OBS?: Not at home. Stage does the work OBS would normally do: overlays, alerts, your BRB screen, filters. There is nothing to install, update or restart.
Is a relay enough on its own if I have no PC?: No. A relay hands you a clean bonded feed, but something still has to composite it and stay connected to the platform, and in the relay setup that something is your own OBS. Without a PC you need the compositing hosted, which is what Stage does.