Irlos

The open-source streaming stack purpose-built for IRL streamers. One binary replaces the duct-taped pile of SLS + noalbs + OBS + obs-websocket that every IRL streamer runs today. SRT ingest, transcoding, failover, and relay — in a single daemon that just works.

The product

Server Box $399–699

Pre-configured irlosd server. Plug in, point your encoder at it, go live.

Backpack $799–899

Field-ready streaming rig with bonded cellular uplink and hardware encoding.

Cloud ~$30/mo

Managed irlosd instance. No hardware, no ops. SRT ingest with global relay.

Complete Kit

Server Box + Backpack + 3 months Cloud. Everything to go live from anywhere.

~$1,299

Why now

IRL streaming is growing faster than the tooling can keep up. Streamers are running four separate processes duct-taped together with shell scripts and prayers. When something breaks mid-stream — and it does, because cellular networks are chaos — there's no single system watching the whole pipeline. Irlos closes that gap. One process, one config, one thing to monitor. The stack the ecosystem should have had five years ago.

The stack

irlosd C++ daemon — SRT ingest, transcoding, failover, relay

irlos-tui Rust terminal UI — real-time monitoring over Unix socket

libsrt Secure Reliable Transport — the protocol that makes unstable networks usable

sdbus-cpp D-Bus integration for system-level service management

GPL The whole stack. You own the code that runs your stream.

Get notified

Irlos is in active development. Drop your email and I'll let you know when the first builds ship.