Bond
Throw away the backpack.
No bonding backpack. No box running hot on your back. No overheating hardware at all. Bond turns the phones around you into one connection, and when one network fades, the others carry your stream.
Bond comes in three sizes: two, four and eight phones beside you, and as many platforms at once. Every Studio plan carries Bond too: two on Studio, four on Studio Plus, eight on Studio Pro and fourteen on Studio Max.
- hardware to buy, rent or carry
- 0
- phones one stream can lean on
- 14
- a month for Bond on its own
- $9.99
Go on. Cut a connection.
This is the stream going out over your phone, two phones beside you and Wi-Fi. Cut them one by one and watch what viewers get.
Try it: cut a connection
A preview of a live stream going out over four connections, your phone, two phones beside you and Wi-Fi, to Twitch, YouTube, Kick and TikTok. Cut connections to see what viewers get: while one is left the stream carries on; when all are cut, Studio shows Be right back and returns to Live by itself once a connection is back. Timings are shortened.
- Twitch
- YouTube
- Kick
- TikTok
- Twitch
- YouTube
- Kick
- TikTok
- and more
One word
You always know where you stand.
Your stream is spread across every connection you add and put back together by Lumbus. One word tells you where you stand.
Protected
Two or more connections on different networks are carrying you.
Single
One connection, or several on the same network. Add a phone on another network.
Weak
Your connections together carry less than your stream needs. Quality drops; the stream stays up.
Lost
Nothing is carrying your stream. Studio shows viewers Be right back until a connection returns.
How it works
Three things, and nothing to set up.
- 01
Scan a code
Each phone you add scans a code from your screen. No account to make, nothing to configure.
- 02
Keep the app open
The phone keeps the Lumbus Live app open and lends its connection, on its own plan. Leave and the stream carries on without it.
- 03
Lumbus rejoins the stream
Your stream is split across every connection and put back together by Lumbus before it goes out, to your studio or straight to your platforms.
Bond on its own
Three sizes. Phones and platforms go together.
Your phone is the camera, the phones around you become the connection, straight to your platforms. No production room. Want it too? Every Studio plan carries Bond, from two phones on Studio.
Bond 2
$9.99a month
Solo streamer. 2 phones beside you lend a connection · 2 platforms at once · Protected, Single, Weak or Lost, in one word · The Lumbus Live app on your phone
CompareBond 4
$14.99a month
Serious streamers. 4 phones beside you lend a connection · 4 platforms at once · Protected, Single, Weak or Lost, in one word · The Lumbus Live app on your phone
CompareBond 8
$19.99a month
Crews and events. 8 phones beside you lend a connection · 8 platforms at once · Protected, Single, Weak or Lost, in one word · The Lumbus Live app on your phone
CompareEvery new account starts with seven days of Studio Pro; at the end you keep it or pick a Bond size. The picture is your phone’s, passed through.
Where Bond earns its keep
Questions
- How does Bond work?
Each phone you add runs the Lumbus Live app and lends its connection. Your stream is split across all of them and put back together by Lumbus before it goes out: to your studio, or straight to your platforms.
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Each phone you add scans a code from your screen, keeps the Lumbus Live app open and lends its connection. Your stream is split across every connection and put back together by Lumbus before it goes out — to your studio, or straight to your platforms — so one weak network never ends the stream. One word tells you where you stand: Protected (two or more connections on different networks), Single, Weak or Lost.
- Do the phones around me need a plan?
They use their own data plans, shared between them, so each one carries only a part of your stream. How much depends on your picture quality; the next answer gives a figure.
- How much data does a stream use?
It depends on the picture quality you stream at. As a guide, plan on about 4.3 GB an hour for high-quality HD, shared across the connections you add.
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Plan on your video bitrate plus about 20% for Bond’s own overhead: that is what your connections carry between them. At 8 Mbps that is about 4.3 GB an hour, so 100 GB lasts around 23 hours; a poor network pushes it towards 5 GB an hour. Adding more phones does not add to the total — the same stream is divided between them.
- What happens when my signal drops?
Viewers see a “Be right back” screen instead of a frozen picture, and Live comes back by itself when your signal returns. All your platforms stay connected the whole time.
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Studio watches your feed once a second. Weak for a few seconds and viewers get your Low bitrate scene; gone, and they get Be right back. A frozen or black picture arriving at a healthy bitrate is seen too — shown as a word, and sent to Be right back if you turn that rule on. Live comes back by itself once the signal has held for a few seconds — with a margin, so it never flaps. Viewers see a designed scene, not a frozen frame, and all your platforms stay connected the whole time.
- Can I put the other phones back in my pocket?
On Android, a phone can keep lending its connection in the background. On iPhone, the Lumbus Live app must stay open on screen while that phone is lending its connection; the join screen says so.
- Do I need any hardware?
No. Lumbus uses your phone as the camera, and the phones around you as extra connections. If you already use a camera or a laptop, Lumbus takes that too; a camera sends its picture through your phone or a laptop, unless it streams by itself.
Where next
Seven days of Studio Pro, free.
Every Studio plan starts on Studio Pro, free for seven days: eight phones beside you, the full production room, every Pro feature. No card needed: add one only to keep a plan when the week ends.
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