Go live on Nadi: your camera, on your own page
Going live on Nadi means your camera opens in your browser and your members watch on the event page. There is nothing to install and no link to send. You press one button to start, one to stop, and the replay posts itself into your room, where it stays and keeps earning — and you can take it off the wall, download it, or delete it whenever you want. This page walks through all of it, from the lamp in front of you to the button at the end.
What going live on Nadi is
It is your camera, running inside your browser. You press a button, your face goes out, and members watching your event page see you. That is the whole machine.
Nothing gets installed. No Zoom, no Meet, no streaming program, no stream key, no second account for you and none for them. A phone with a browser is enough, and a phone is what most people will use.
Because the live plays inside the page, whoever can open the page can watch. For a ticketed workshop, or any event inside a paid or private room, that means the people who paid — and only them. A link can be forwarded to a hundred strangers; a page behind a gate cannot.
In a free room that anybody can read, the live is as open as the room is. That is not a setting you have missed. It is the same reach a meeting link had, and it is worth knowing before you say something in a free room that you meant for members.
The two ways to start
Plan it ahead. Make an event in your calendar, and where you would normally paste a meeting link, choose "Go live on Nadi" instead. Members see the event, save the date, and come back to that same page when it is time. You open the page and start from there.
Or start right now. Where your room offers it, there is a "Go live now" button at the top of the room. Press it and the event is made for you, so a thought you had thirty seconds ago can be on air before you lose it.
Both ways end in the same place: one event page, with you on it, and one address to send anybody who asks where to watch.
Five minutes before you start
- Put light on your face. A window or a lamp in front of you beats any camera you could buy.
- Stand the phone up against something. Ten minutes of holding it shows in the picture, and your arm will tell you the same thing.
- Use Wi-Fi you trust, or mobile data with full bars. A weak connection is the one thing your audience cannot forgive.
- Plug the phone in. An hour of camera empties a battery faster than you expect.
- Say the first sentence out loud once. It is the only part everybody hears.
One rule matters more than all five: keep the page open. Your camera lives in that page. Lock the phone, switch to another app, or let the screen fall asleep, and the camera stops — which means your live stops. Turn the screen timeout up before you begin, and put the phone somewhere you will not need to pick it up.
While you are live
The page shows "On air" the whole time you are broadcasting. That is your proof it is really going out, so you never have to wonder.
Nadi is saving a copy while you talk. It goes up in pieces as you go, so there is no long wait at the end and a lost connection costs the last few seconds rather than the whole hour.
When you are done, press "End live" — and then wait a moment. The last piece of the recording finishes uploading after you press it, and the page tells you how it is going: "Finishing your recording. Keep this page open." Keep it open until that message goes away. Closing the tab too early is the one mistake that leaves you with nothing to post.
If the saving ever fails, the live carries on. Nadi tells you the minute it stopped at and leaves you talking. A broken recording never takes the live down with it.
What your members see
They open the event page and press play. There is no app to fetch, no meeting number, no waiting room, and nothing to sign up for beyond being in your room already.
They can write under the event while they watch, so questions arrive in the same place the answers will live afterwards.
They cannot see how many other people are watching, and neither can you. Nadi shows no viewer count rather than a number it cannot stand behind.
Your replay posts itself
When you press End, the replay goes up on its own. It settles onto the event page for everyone who missed the hour, and a post goes into your room so people actually find it. There is nothing to remember and nothing else to press.
And if the event was a paid workshop, the replay keeps selling seats long after the day itself — the same hour, earning twice.
Changed your mind? The event page keeps three buttons under your replay, and they stay there. "Take it out of the room" lifts the post off your wall and leaves the video on the event page — "Put it in the room" puts it back. "Download" saves the video file to your phone or computer. And "Delete the video" takes the replay off the event page too, and the file itself is gone by the next day.
How many hours you get
Every room can go live, free ones included. What a plan buys is how much.
- Free: 5 hours of live a month.
- Pro: 25 hours a month.
- Max: 100 hours a month.
Only the broadcast itself counts. Replays never do — once a live is saved as a post, members can watch it as many times as they like and none of it comes off your hours.
The count starts over on the first of every month. Nadi warns you when you are getting close, and if the hours do run out it says so plainly — a bigger plan brings more.
Nobody can join you on camera, and that is on purpose
This is a stage, not a two-way conversation. One person broadcasts; everybody else watches and writes. There is no way to bring a guest on screen and no hand to raise.
It is built that way on purpose. One-way video reaches members on networks where two-way video does not, and staying on this side of the line is what keeps Nadi opening for members who would otherwise need a workaround to reach you at all.
So the two choices on an event are for two different jobs. Choose "Go live on Nadi" when you are the one talking. Paste a meeting link when you need real back-and-forth with guests — that path is unchanged, opens in a new tab, and works as it always has.
When something goes wrong
Four messages cover nearly everything, and each has one step behind it.
- "Nadi could not open your camera." The browser is holding the permission back, not Nadi. Allow the camera and microphone for this site, reload the page, and press the button again — on a phone the permission usually hides behind a small icon in the address bar.
- "The live cannot play on this network." A member sees this, not you. Some networks block live video and let everything else through, so the rest of Nadi still works for them. Tell them the replay will be on this same page — and then make sure it is.
- "Your recording did not finish saving." There is nothing to post from that live. It almost always means the page was closed or reloaded before the upload finished. Next time, stay on the page after "End live" until the finishing message disappears.
- "Resume broadcast." The event still thinks you are on air, but this page is not sending anything — usually because the page reloaded. Press it to pick the broadcast back up.
And if the picture is fine but nobody can hear you, it is the microphone permission, every time. Check it in the same place as the camera.