To be honest, I rarely write and almost only read interesting articles. As it turns out, now I finally have something to show: A friend and I do amateur livestreaming of sports events of our sports clubs (a dragonboat and a canoe racing club) located in the city of Halle (Saale) in eastern Germany.<p>Our equipment consists of<p>- different kinds of controlled and uncontrolled cameras
- a bunch of smartphones with different kinds of connectivity
- one or two DJI drones that can do limited quality live streaming via RTMP
- a few streaming servers to collect streams
- a livestreaming workstation that utilizes an Intel Arc A380 for streaming to YouTube with AV1 and utilize the bandwidth that we get because
- we have a special directed radio link with LTE+ (LTE with carrier aggregation yielding us ~100/40 Mbit/s) since the local landline is only 16/1.6 Mbit/s<p>Over time we<p>- gradually improved and learned about streaming and different kinds of wireless connectivity
- improved our overlays for the stream, they are generated mostly as websites from the corresponding databases (dragonboat races are different from canoe races etc.)
- 3D-printed a load of little things for fixation and installation<p>Today, we do day 1 of our two-day dragonboat races for school classes from first grade to highschool from our city and the surroundings, 2700 pupils are expected. Around the same time we usually do a three-day dragonboat race, as well as in autumn a long-range (2-6 km) canoe race and a dragonboat indoor-cup in winter time.<p>You may ask questions or give your opinions, I will answer them, but with delay as we are busy on-site.