Owncast

Connect Owncast with your Owncast host, an access token, and a webhook.

Connect Owncast

1. Open the Synchra Dashboard, go to your channel integrations, and choose Owncast.

2. Enter the public URL of your Owncast server.

3. In Owncast Admin, open Integrations, Access Tokens, and create an access token named Synchra.

4. Select Can send chat messages on behalf of the owner of this token and Can perform administrative actions such as moderation, get server statuses, etc.. The Can send official messages on behalf of the system permission is not required.

5. Paste the access token into Synchra and save it.

6. Copy the webhook URL from Synchra.

7. In Owncast Admin, open Integrations, Webhooks, and create a webhook with the copied URL.

8. Click Select all, then OK.

Keep the token private

Treat the Owncast access token like a password. Synchra stores it encrypted and uses it to call the Owncast integration API.

Owncast can be used for unified chat, bot messages, stream title updates, live status, stream preview, and hiding chat messages.

Common issues

Not receiving chat messages

Owncast sends chat messages to Synchra through the webhook you create in your Owncast instance. If chat messages are not appearing in Synchra, open the Owncast provider in the Synchra Dashboard and copy the webhook URL shown there.

Then open Owncast Admin, go to Integrations > Webhooks, and make sure a webhook exists with that exact URL. If it is missing or different, create a new webhook with the Synchra URL, click Select all, then OK.