Speed, distance, location and weather along the bottom of your IRL stream.
The Walking stats overlay is a bar across the bottom of your stream with
four modules: how fast you’re moving, how far you’ve walked, where you are, and
what the weather is doing. All of it comes from the GPS in the phone you’re
already streaming with.It’s a GPS overlay, which means it renders on the phone rather than in your
cloud OBS. You add it to IRL Pro as a web overlay, the phone reads its own
location, and the bar is burned into the video you send.This one is optional. Your IRL stream works fine without it, and it does put
your location on stream, so skip it if you’d rather not broadcast where you
are.
Dashboard → Overlay Editor, then New Overlay. Name it, and this
time switch the type to GPS. The template list narrows to the ones
that make sense for GPS. Pick Walking stats.
GPS type, Walking stats template.
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Copy the URL
The ready dialog says it plainly: this one is opened on the phone, not
added to OBS. Copy the URL and get it onto your phone.
No OBS steps here. The phone is the browser source.
Treat the URL like a password. It’s a live feed of where you are.
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Turn it on
Flip the overlay’s switch to active on its card, the same as any other
overlay. The card carries a GPS badge so you can tell them apart.
Open the editor. With no GPS around, which is any desktop browser, the modules
sit at zero and --.
The bar spans the full 1920x1080 canvas and sits at the bottom.
To see it move, select the widget and turn on Preview demo motion. It
walks a fake route so speed, distance, location and weather all fill in.
Demo motion on. The route is canned, it isn't reading your location.
Turn demo motion back off before you stream. It overrides real GPS, so your
viewers would watch a fake walk through Amsterdam while you’re somewhere else.
The top of the fields panel covers the bar itself: unit system (metric or
imperial), width, height, corner radius, background colour and opacity, font,
module gap and alignment.
Bar settings, top of the panel.
Below that, each module has its own group: Speed, Weather,
Distance, Location. Every one can be switched off on its own, so a bar
with only speed and distance is two toggles away. Inside a group you get its
label text, label position, font sizes and colours.
One group per module. Turn off what you don't want.
There are a lot of knobs here and most of them are self-explanatory, so play
with them rather than reading about them. The few that behave in ways you
can’t guess:
Update speed and distance: on every GPS fix (default, smoothest), on a
time step, or after a set distance. The last two are for when a jittery
signal makes the numbers twitch.
Reset distance: never, when the stream goes live, or every time the
widget loads. “When stream goes live” is what most people want; per-stream
distance, not a number that grows for months.
Ignore fixes worse than (m): throws away fixes with poor accuracy, so a
bad reading doesn’t teleport you 200 metres and spike your speed. Default 60
metres.
When GPS drops: dim the bar, hide it, or leave it. Dim is honest without
being dramatic.
Speed smoothing: higher is calmer, lower reacts faster. GPS speed is
noisy at walking pace, which is why the default is not zero.
Save when you’re happy. The phone picks up changes the next time the overlay
loads.
This is the step that catches people out. Web overlays can’t read GPS
until you allow it: gear icon, Advanced options, scroll to
WebViews, and turn on Web overlay geo enabled.Android asks for the location permission the first time. Pick Precise
and While using the app. Approximate accuracy is useless for a speed
readout.
Precise, while using the app.
Web overlay geo enabled, under WebViews.
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Add the overlay
Overlays → Web Overlays → New web overlay. Name it, paste the URL, and
set Width to 1920 and Height to 1080 under WebView options.
The app defaults to 1280x720 and the overlay is a 1920x1080 canvas, so the
default puts the bar at the wrong size and in the wrong place.Leave View mode on Preview + stream. This one is meant for your
viewers, unlike the
switcher monitor, which stays on Preview.
Preview + stream, and 1920x1080.
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Save and tick it
Save, then tick it in the list. Both overlays can run at once; IRL Pro
recommends staying under 3 or 4 web overlays, since each one is a browser
running on the phone that’s already encoding your video.
Both ticked. The switcher monitor stays private, this one goes out.
Back on the camera screen the bar appears along the bottom with your real
speed, distance, location and weather.
Live on the phone. Location blurred here, your viewers see the real thing.
Check your cloud OBS output before adjusting anything, not just the phone
preview: IRL Pro crops what it shows you on screen, but it sends the full,
correct frame to OBS. The bar can look fine on the phone and still sit wrong
in what actually goes out, or the other way around.If the bar sits half off the bottom edge in OBS, raise Distance from
bottom (px) on the widget until it clears. 20 to 40 is usually enough.
