Live Streaming Coming Soon to Heights Platform

Hey everyone,

Some exciting news: live streaming is coming soon to Heights Platform! 🎥

This powerful update will make it effortless to engage your students, run live lessons, and bring your community together in one place, without juggling additional tools.

Soon, you’ll be able to start live calls from different places within your account:

• Live Lessons: Turn a course lesson into a live stream, and access the recording as a lesson video once the streaming is over.
• Meeting Rooms: Start and schedule live calls or streaming sessions directly from your community channels.
• Digital Products: Offer paid or free access to a live event or group meeting room using digital products, and share the registration page with users inside or outside your program to hold webinars, coaching sessions, and more.

We’d love to hear from you about how you plan to use this feature!

Do you plan to host live lessons within your course or challenge, using Heights as your Zoom alternative, sell access to live events to promote your courses, or something else?

💬 Comment below and share your ideas! Your feedback helps us build something you'll truly enjoy.

That truly is exciting!

I can't wait to see this! My first thought, network sessions, our monthly drop-ins and I may need to consult AI for more ideas!

Question; will it work on mobile devices?

The reason I ask is that my large corp clients use Citrix which blocks far too many good things people can access, so they may need to revert to using their personal mobile devices.

wow, this is awesome. I know my ask will be a bit specialized, but I wonder if the audio will have a similar to Zoom way of making sure musical instruments can be heard? Zoom by default suppresses sustained sounds like fans and motors (good for talking) but that also suppresses musical instruments. We can turn off the suppression in Zoom. How about here? I'd love to bring our classes inside the platform!!

I can still bring my tech talk sessions into Heights, but wouldn't it be nice to have everything right inside a course? Will you be hosting the lesson videos afterwards? I don't currently have your video hosting plan?

Question; will it work on mobile devices?

Yes, Catherine this is planned to work on mobile devices as well. There is nothing to install so attendees will be able to access right from their mobile browser.

We can turn off the suppression in Zoom. How about here? I'd love to bring our classes inside the platform!!

Yes, Laurie! While we plan to offer a noise suppression feature, we plan to have it off by default and so audio should come through without any alteration.

There will be multiple ways to use livestreaming and meeting rooms. You can do live lessons, offer webinars or coaching sessions through digital products, or have meeting rooms and livestreams in specific community channels.

With all of these you will be able to record the call. For livestream lessons, after the stream the lesson will turn into a video lesson with the recording of the call as a video.

For other uses, you will have access to the recording file, and will be able to download that and then upload it to a lesson if you want members to be able to view it again later.

My use for live streaming would be primarily for marketing a coaching webinar to engage with potential clients.

Great to hear @kevin-mccarthy. The livestreaming feature will support that, so you'll be able to use it to host a webinar for leads.

@laurie-mccarriar There is a setting in the zoom app to allow for original audio.

@martin thanks, well aware of original audio in Zoom, we use it every day. I was asking about similar functionality here in the new streaming and they answered in the affirmative.

I was planning to use the live stream feature in the community to drop in and add some focus to a topic or as a bonus for reaching milestones. My plan in 2026 is to try to weave the community much more intentionally into the curriculum. I will also be using this definitely in the group courses that will be added in the first quarter of 2026. The fact that it can be recorded is really nice for possible content repurposing.

Is this feature available on Heights-built website pages before someone logs in? If not, if it is used for webinars, then everyone must create an account to access the webinar? That might not be a bad thing as long as it is set up correctly in the offer to keep them in their "lane".

Sounds like a great plan Rodney! As far as the functionality, there will be multiple ways you can use these livestreams and meeting rooms.

One option will be to have them available in a digital product that you could use for a free webinar stream, or for a paid group coaching call.

Another option that we plan to offer which we didn't yet detail above is a generic instant meeting room link that you'll be able to share anywhere or use in calendar invites as a way of having your own branded meeting room, like an alternative to Zoom. In this type of meeting room anyone can join, even if they don't have a student account in your program.

The guest can simply type their name and then when you are in the meeting room you will see a join request appear and can decide to let them in or not.

Initially, I plan to use this for my weekly "ask me anything" office hours for my community so my students who are taking one of my courses or have already graduated from a course can have access to me and other experts I bring in each week in order to provide them additional support on a weekly basis. I plan to start hosting one of these calls each week and may eventually host 2 or 3 calls to accommodate different times/days of the week. I love that these can be automatically hosted on the Heights Platform and accessible to the participants of my courses since it is all on the same platform.

Can I invite a guest expert to join me and can we both be primary presenters in a live session and then we can see which community members are present so we can take questions throughout the session?

Can we get an RMTP endpoint, so we can hook in via zoom / eCam / Livestream Broadcaster?

@matt-zembruski that's great! We expect something like this to be one of the most popular uses. While it is nice to essentially have your own branded meeting platform, the ability to get everyone into it easily without them having to jump to different software or figure out something to download should help reduce friction for students.

Regarding guest hosts: at launch there will be the option for any author users in your account to join and present as admins. This can be useful for situations like when you want to have a livestream to many students, and have more than one person present.

In addition to streams in lessons, community channels, or digital products, we are going to have a generic group meeting room which will allow guests to join even if they don't have a student or author account in your program. This can also be useful for having a guest expert speak. For internal group meeting rooms and livestreams we plan to introduce the ability to add a guest host without having to make them an author in your account, but we haven't yet confirmed if that will be part of the initial launch.

@martin at launch you'll be able to stream and hold meeting rooms in Heights directly from Heights in your browser. We plan to support RTMP output in the future so that you could for instance start a live stream in Heights and have the same feed go to other platforms like YouTube live at the same time.

Currently we support any camera devices on your computer, so you would be able to use eCam, OBS, etc as a camera input for calls you start in Heights.

We weren't planning RTMP input since we believe it would be much easier for creators to simply select their camera and start the call directly from Heights.

To me, as creator, RMTP Input is absolutely essential.

We appreciate this feedback Martin! Can you share more about how you'd use RTMP input if we offered it so that we can better understand your use-case?

Yes.
Your idea works well for the "single creator with a laptop". However many of us have gotten more professional.

There is a full workflow involved.

I have some creation points. They range from "just iPhone" to "Videostudio, with Atem Mini Pro". Another important one is "Livestream Zoom Interview to XYZ).

But … everything that happens after this (recording, splitting to multiple channels (think videolinq, etc…), saving to the cloud, transcriptions) is an automated workflow.

It needs RTMP, because that is how I connect the "Inputs" to the system.

And again … this is oftentimes not ONE endpoint, but multiple (like live-streaming into the telegram group, as well as the YouTube channel).

What you are building seems like a very handy addition, BUT if you keep this fully closed inside the "heights world" it will be almost useless for me. I can't change all my processes for you guys. I need to be able to hook in.

So I need RMTP at the front and web hooks at the back.

Thanks!

@martin we appreciate the details on your workflow and that makes sense!

If you already have a complex workflow where you are used to streaming from your device already we can understand that even if Heights offers multiple outputs to those other sources like YouTube, etc, that you wouldn't want to have to start the stream through Heights as the only option.

While we can't promise RTMP input with the initial launch of this feature, we definitely want to support creators who have advanced production setups like yourself!