Remote Church How To: Integrated Video Conferencing
- Tech_Writer
This is a video conferencing system which allows you to hold virtual church services with each participant connecting via a custom meet.listentochurch.com URL to broadcast the result into your audio stream.
This service is freely available as part of your plan.
Thanks to those who so graciously assisted with testing and troubleshooting this. Also thanks to those who paid initial setup costs.
Getting Started
You can retrieve your ID by going to https://listentochurch.com/manage. From there you can email yourself the Mount details. This email will include a 9 digit number starting with 81.
You’ll need to keep this number as it will be used every time you want to broadcast to your stream.
Go to https://meet.listentochurch.com and create a new meeting or join an existing one if you’ve created one already. You can use the random text it generates or enter your own.
You’ll need to allow access to your microphone and camera if you wish to broadcast.
You’ll see a popup at the bottom of your window which gives you the choice of entering a password. If you’re using something like “Demo” for the meeting name then we’d recommend entering a password but if this is a temporary meeting and you use a random string then it’s up to you. You can access this box again by pressing on the 'i' in a white circle at the bottom of the screen.
Share the newly created URL and password with your presenters.
To call out your conference to your stream select the + sign on the bottom of the screen. You need to have moderator rights to be able to perform this. Moderator rights are given to the first person in a conference.
Enter the number you’ve received as part of your account setup (step 2). Please be aware that you must not be actively streaming from elsewhere or this will not work. Once you have the number entered click on Telephone.
Next click on Invite. That will join another your audio stream into the meeting. Please be aware that it might take up to 1 minute to finish the connection.
As the moderator, you have control of the session. To manage interactions with any user, click the 3 small dots on their box. Here you can mute the user, send private messages, or if the user is being disruptive, kick him/her out.
