Trying to embed a Live Stream channel ID instead of a video ID. The purpose of that is because there’s a new stream every week, so the channel ID would automatically update the video. The video ID requires I manually change the URL every week.
The channel ID link doesn’t seem to work. Not sure if the YouTube component event recognizes channel IDs.
Be sure to replace the “[Channel ID]” in the iframe with your own. You can find it by navigating to www.youtube.com/account_advanced. See the image below.
Thanks for discovering & sharing that with us! Can you tell me what you did to set an image as the default display for the embed window when your channel isn’t currently live?
hey @mrwildenfree mine automatically generated an image, but im not sure how if it was anything I did or didn’t do. A quick solution would be to add a background image to the html embed so something shows if your video isn’t generating a thumbnail.
It’s not my account, so I figured this was the part that wasn’t right. They may not have a stream thumbnail set yet. Working on it. Will let you know! Thanks!
No, YouTube’s live chat is not embeddable from what I’ve seen. I used Chatroll. It’s not that great though. If you have developer knowledge, I would use PubNub.
Thank you so much for your input. That’s really helpful. I am low on the dev side - more of a designer - so I am looking at Chatroll - Pubnub looks very interesting but did make my head hurt a little.