What you need
Live video is a paid module, turned on per event from your dashboard — see pricing for current rates. It's self-hosted, so there's no third-party streaming account to create and no separate link to send anyone: the video shows up on the exact same fullscreen display window you'd already use for slides, a lucky draw, or live bidding.
Camera and mic permission
Your browser will ask for camera and microphone access the first time you go live. If you accidentally block it, look for the camera icon in your browser's address bar to grant it and try again — there's nothing to reset on the Joinlah side.
Going live from your phone or laptop
- 1
Open Display from your event dashboard
This is the same screen used to manage slides — with Live video turned on, it gets its own section for the camera.
- 2
Start the camera
Tap Start camera and allow the permission prompt. A small preview appears right there in the dashboard so you can check your framing and lighting before anyone else sees it.
- 3
Put it on the display
Starting the camera doesn't show it to your audience yet — flip On display to actually push it to the fullscreen display window. This split exists so you can quietly get set up first and go live on your own timing.
- 4
Stop camera when you're done
This ends the stream and releases your camera and mic. If you just want to duck out of frame for a minute without ending the stream entirely, toggle Off display instead — your camera keeps running, the audience just sees the idle screen until you flip it back.
What your audience actually sees
Open on its own, video fills the fullscreen display edge to edge — the same treatment as a lucky draw reveal, since there's nothing else competing for the screen. Turn on Live bidding or Live chat alongside it and the display adapts: the current auction lot or the chat ticker sits in a panel next to the stream instead of covering it, so remote attendees can watch you and follow the bidding or chat at the same time.
Tip
The display window updates over a live connection, the same one the lucky draw and remote control use — there's no meaningful delay between flipping a toggle on your phone and it changing on the projector or a remote attendee's screen.
Works for hybrid or fully online events
- Attendees watch from the same public event page they'd already use to check their ticket or bid — nothing extra to send them.
- For a fully online event with no physical venue, this is the whole show: there's no requirement to also be projecting to a room.
- For a hybrid event, the person speaking at the venue and someone watching from home see the exact same display, at the same moment, including anything else on it like a live auction lot.
Before your event
Camera and mic access require a secure connection, which Joinlah already runs over — but a laptop's built-in webcam and mic are usually good enough for a talk or an auctioneer; for anything longer or where audio quality matters, plug in an external mic if you have one. A wired internet connection is also worth using over venue Wi-Fi if the room is going to be crowded with phones.