What is SRT connection bonding
In SRT Servers, set SRT Routing to SRT main/backup failover, choose Pull, then enter the source hosts and routing ports for the main and backup contributions.
Prerequisites
- prepare one reachable main source and one reachable backup source
- have the source hosts and routing ports for both contributions
- for each additional backup stream, prepare its source host and routing port
- confirm access to the destination and relevant server/session state
If you want to learn more about how main/backup algorithm works, please refer to official SRT documentation here.
How to set up Main/Backup switching in Callaba
For this tutorial you will need your streaming sources, main one and another one to fall back to, plus a Callaba Cloud instance.
To keep this tutorial short and sweet, we are not going to explain the basics here.
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Callaba is a streaming service that supports a broad range of video industry standards. We provide simple and convenient video streaming pipeline within a single solution : input source encoding, video processing, output source decoding, live video and audio streaming, video recording, video on demand.
Pro tip :
Make sure you read launching tutorial to the end, so that you know how to stop your instance when your work is finished. This is important to avoid unnecessary charges.
Let’s begin
1. Log into Callaba Cloud Live Streaming dashboard
2. Go to SRT Servers section
Click “Add New”
In the page that opens
Name your server
Port : specify port (in our case 9003)
Scroll down to the Routing Settings
SRT Routing : SRT main/backup failover
Routing mode : Pull
In our example we’re going to be pulling both of our streams (the main one and the backup one).
Now all we need to do is to specify our sources (Hosts).
Routing Host IP : specify your source IP
Routing SRT Port : specify port
The same way we’ll have to add our backup source.
Click “+ Add SRT Host”
Routing Host IP : specify your backup source IP
Routing SRT Port : specify backup source port
If you have more backup sources, add them the same way
Allow Pulling
This step is required for version 7.3 and above.
In our version 7, we have added Allowed Streams.
"Allowed Streams" is a protective mechanism to ensure that only allowed streams can connect to your instance. No outsiders!
By deafult, each SRT server has two allowed streams - Publisher and Receiver. This means that the SRT server can send (publish) and receive streams.
As we are setting up routing that requires Pulling, we need to add a new allowed stream to tell the SRT server that it's okay to engage in this type of connection. We've allowed it.
Without this explicit permission, Pulling will not work.
Let's do it
Unfold Allowed Streams
Click "Add Stream"
In the new stream that appears, set Role to Puller.
Role : Puller
Click "Save"
Save the configuration. During a planned check, stop the main source, check destination picture and audio plus relevant server/session state, then restore the source and record the result.
Pro tip :
To see your incoming / outgoing bitrate you’ll need to set up some kind of a receiver for your stream. A receiver can be a player, a recording process, a restream, for example. Or you can grab the stream any other way.
This is the end of this tutorial.
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Happy streaming!
