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Sacrament Broadcast

West Building · Start Here
Start here every Sunday This page is your home base. Follow the steps below in order. Not sure whether today is YouTube or Zoom? Ask the broadcast coordinator (Stake or Ward Technology Specialist), then tap that button when you reach it.
Take a breath — you’ve got this Follow the pictures one step at a time. If a screen ever looks different from the picture, don’t guess — stop and text the coordinator (the number is at the bottom of every page). You cannot break anything.

Sunday setup — do these in order

  1. At the pulpit (front of the chapel): turn on the chapel sound system / pulpit microphone — press the red button on the rostrum.
  2. Still at the pulpit: check the wireless audio box shows a blue light. It is usually on — this is the one that sometimes gets switched off.?
  3. Go to the cart at the back of the chapel. Plug in the two USB cables and the power adapter (see Setting up the laptop cables near the bottom of this page).
  4. Open the laptop and log in. (You must be logged in to open these instructions.) The login password changes from time to time — if it does not work, text the coordinator.
  5. Check the Wi-Fi is connected — look at the network icon by the clock. This laptop joins the church Wi-Fi automatically; you do not need to open Edge or accept a “terms” page.
  6. Open Chrome. It opens YouTube and these instructions automatically.
  7. Open OBS Studio (the black circle icon). Click the Live Broadcast scene — you should see the chapel in the big picture, and three scenes on the lower-left (Live Broadcast Sacrament Between Meetings). If the picture is black or frozen, see: the camera will not appear.?
  8. Start the broadcast & go live on your platform page. Tap the button for today’s service just below. That page shows you how to turn on both broadcast buttons in OBS — Start Virtual Camera and Start Streaming (they don’t interfere; running both is your backup) — and how to go live.
What do these words mean? (tap to open)

OBS — the program on the desktop (black circle icon) that sends the picture out. Leave it open the whole time.

Scene — a saved view inside OBS. You switch scenes with one click to change what people at home see.

Start Virtual Camera — the OBS button that feeds Zoom.

Start Streaming — the OBS button that feeds YouTube.

Which service are we running today?

YouTube
Broadcasting to the ward YouTube channel.
In OBS you press Start Streaming.
Zoom
Broadcasting in the Zoom “Sunday Broadcast” webinar.
In OBS you press Start Virtual Camera.
Turn on BOTH in OBS — you’re double-covered Always turn on both buttons — the order does not matter. Start Virtual Camera (for Zoom) and Start Streaming (for YouTube) are independent — turning one on does not affect the other.
• Start Virtual Camera feeds Zoom.
• Start Streaming feeds YouTube.
Neither one cares if the other is also on, so you can safely press both and be protected either way.
🔄 Broadcast BOTH at once (backup mode) Run YouTube and Zoom together every week, so if one platform is down the other still carries the meeting. Open the both-at-once checklist →
Golden rule for the whole meeting Once you are live, do not end the stream or the meeting between wards or during the sacrament. You only switch scenes inside OBS. Ending it drops everyone watching at home.

Something not working? Open the Help & Troubleshooting page →

Setting up the laptop cables

The laptop uses three cables. If any come unplugged, match them like this picture:

Cooling / fan stand (the laptop sits on top) front (you sit here) 1 power (Surface blade) 3 USB 2 LEFT RIGHT BACK
Top view of the laptop — where each cable goes.
  1. Silver USB cable → the LEFT side of the laptop.
  2. Black USB cable → the cooling / fan stand the laptop sits on. Do NOT plug the black cable into the laptop.
  3. Power adapter → the RIGHT side of the laptop. Its end is a flat magnetic Surface “blade” connector — not a USB plug.
The three cable ends: (1) silver USB to laptop LEFT, (2) black USB to the cooling stand, (3) power (Surface blade) to laptop RIGHT.
The three cable ends: (1) silver USB to laptop LEFT, (2) black USB to the cooling stand, (3) power (Surface blade) to laptop RIGHT. (click to enlarge)
The silver USB cable plugged into the LEFT side of the laptop.
The silver USB cable plugged into the LEFT side of the laptop. (click to enlarge)
Two cables are black — don’t mix them up The cooling-stand cable ends in a USB plug; the power cable ends in a flat magnetic Surface “blade” connector. Only the silver USB cable and the power adapter plug into the laptop — the black USB goes to the cooling stand.

Other equipment (for reference)

📷 Camera angles & remote — what buttons 1, 2 and 3 do →

The chapel camera (Tongveo). The remote control changes the view; it does not affect OBS.
The chapel camera (Tongveo). The remote control changes the view; it does not affect OBS. (click to enlarge)
The wireless audio box at the PULPIT. Blue light = on. This is the one that sometimes gets switched off, so check it each week.
The wireless audio box at the PULPIT. Blue light = on. This is the one that sometimes gets switched off, so check it each week. (click to enlarge)

There is a second audio box by the broadcast laptop. It is almost never touched (off once in about three years) — you only need it for troubleshooting. See Help & Troubleshooting if there is no sound.