open-live

Open Live is a cloud-native live broadcast production suite that replaces traditional hardware — vision mixers, audio consoles, and multiviewers — with a fully browser-based solution. This repository is the central API server. The browser-based production controller lives in open-live-studio.

Try it on OSC

The fastest way to try Open Live — no Kubernetes required.

Visit openlive.apps.osaas.io to spin up a managed Open Live instance on Open Source Cloud. Start for an event, tear down after. No infrastructure to manage and no monthly minimum.

• 14-day free trial, free plan available
• 15 EUR/month (self-hosted Strom) or 69 EUR/month (shared GPU in Frankfurt)

Features

• Vision mixing — cuts, auto transitions, DSK layers, picture-in-picture, graphics overlays, and fade-to-black
• Audio mixer — per-channel faders with EBU R128 loudness metering
• Multiviewer — sub-500ms WebRTC glass-to-glass latency
• Stream Deck control — hardware button panel integration
• Up to 16 sources per production
• REMI / remote production — crews work from anywhere via browser; eliminates travel and equipment shipping
• Self-hostable on any Kubernetes cluster, zero vendor lock-in

Requirements

• Node.js 23+
• pnpm 10.33+
• CouchDB instance (local or remote)

Setup

pnpm install
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your credentials and config

Environment variables

Copy .env.example to .env and fill in the values:

Variable	Description	Default
PORT	Port the server listens on	3000
COUCHDB_URL	Full CouchDB connection URL including credentials	required
COUCHDB_NAME	CouchDB database name	open-live
CORS_ORIGIN	Allowed CORS origin (URL of the studio frontend)	http://localhost:5173
STROM_URL	Base URL of the Strom pipeline engine	http://localhost:7000
STROM_TOKEN	OSC Personal Access Token for authenticating against an OSC-hosted Strom instance	(empty — not needed for local Strom)
LOG_LEVEL	Fastify log level (trace, debug, info, warn, error)	info

Never commit .env — it is gitignored. Use .env.example as the reference.

Strom authentication

When STROM_URL points to an OSC-hosted Strom instance, set STROM_TOKEN to your OSC Personal Access Token. The server automatically exchanges it for a short-lived Service Access Token (SAT) and refreshes it before expiry. No extra steps needed.

Leave STROM_TOKEN unset when running Strom locally without authentication.

Commands

# Start development server with hot reload
pnpm dev

# Type-check without emitting
pnpm typecheck

# Compile TypeScript to dist/
pnpm build

# Start compiled server (production / OSC deployment)
pnpm start

API

Method	Path	Description
GET	/health	Liveness check
GET	/healthz	Liveness check (OSC health probe alias)
GET	/ready	Readiness check (requires CouchDB)
GET/POST	/api/v1/productions	List / create productions
GET/PATCH/DELETE	/api/v1/productions/:id	Get / update / delete a production
POST	/api/v1/productions/:id/activate	Activate production — creates + starts Strom flow
POST	/api/v1/productions/:id/deactivate	Deactivate production — stops + deletes Strom flow
POST	/api/v1/productions/:id/sources	Assign a source to a mixer input
DELETE	/api/v1/productions/:id/sources/:mixerInput	Remove a source assignment
GET/POST	/api/v1/sources	List / create sources
GET/PATCH/DELETE	/api/v1/sources/:id	Get / update / delete a source
GET/POST	/api/v1/templates	List / create Strom flow templates
GET/PATCH/DELETE	/api/v1/templates/:id	Get / update / delete a template
WS	/ws/productions/:id/controller	WebSocket controller channel

Source model

Sources represent individual video/audio feeds. Each source has a streamType (srt or whip) and an address (SRT URI or WHIP endpoint URL).

Template model

A template is a reusable Strom flow blueprint. It contains:

• flow — the full Strom flow JSON (elements[], blocks[], links[])
• inputs[] — parametric input slots: { id, blockId, addressProperty } — maps a logical input name to a block in the flow and the property that receives the source address

Activation flow

1. A production is given a templateId and source assignments (POST /api/v1/productions/:id/sources)
2. POST /api/v1/productions/:id/activate clones the template flow, patches each assigned source's address into the matching block, creates the flow in Strom, and starts it. The stromFlowId is stored on the production.
3. POST /api/v1/productions/:id/deactivate stops and deletes the Strom flow and clears stromFlowId.

OSC deployment

The app is deployed on Open Source Cloud. Environment variables are injected at runtime via an OSC parameter store — no .env file is needed on the server.

Required services: CouchDB (apache-couchdb), Strom (eyevinn-strom), parameter store (eyevinn-app-config-svc + valkey).