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As was mentioned, a search for "church authenticator" in either app store returns the correct app at the top of the list. For iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/church-authenticator/id1141071127 For Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.lds.authenticator In either case...

If precautions are taken, I think there would be some flexibility in creative solutions during these unusual times. I offered to my stake president the availability to come to my home and have his message webcast to the stake, while adhering to the practice of social distancing. I also let him know...

Tickets are now irrelevant since all such gatherings have been cancelled, postponed, or will be available electronically only.

bhawley wrote:Does anyone know if there are plans to increase from the 400 to handle an entire stake?

You might have to look outside the church webcasting system if you need to handle a larger numbers of connections.

russellhltn wrote:But I doubt if we'll be seeing much of an audience at the Conference Center.

There won't be a live audience for the April GC.

But I think the First Presidency and Twelve have simply decided to postpone them. I've just been in touch with my SP regarding our April stake conference, and while he appreciated my offer to setup a webcast to the stake membership via YouTube Live, he suggested that it may have already been cancel...

Sure, but if a stake can webcast a stake conference to all its members in a similar fashion as General Conference, it wouldn't need to be cancelled.

In light of the new guidelines from the First Presidency regarding large gatherings of saints in the affected areas of the COVID-19 virus (including USA), that number of 200 connections per stream is likely to be heavily taxed.

If you're concerned about capacity, I suggest using YouTube Live. It has unbelievable capacity and will spin up more servers automatically on demand. You can use your existing Teradek box for encoding. Hard to beat for free.

I don't know of anyone streaming Sunday School, but YouTube Live has been my preferred streaming service ever since about 2015 for stake conferences. (Before it was available to the general public.) I went with the church's streaming service once I thought it was stable enough because using YouTube ...