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                How to stream permanently from a YouTube channel with a Raspberry Pi
              
          
    Abstract

This tutorial explains, how you can program your Pi so that it automatically tries to connect to a specific YouTube live stream link at startup and always tries to reconnect if the connection is lost. My personal use case was for my grandpa to watch a live stream of his local church without the need to understand YouTube/internet. If you want a permanent stream of a specific channel, use the following link format: https://www.youtube.com/channel/<channel-id>/live (ID can be found with online tools like YouTube Channel ID Finder). This Gist should also work with other streaming services, if they are supported by Streamlink.
Tutorial


Install a useful OS. This tutorial assumes the Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit).
Setup an internet connection.
Install the latest stable version of Streamlink. Older versions have problems with the more recent YouTube API. For the instal


## stop-idle-gcloud.py
# BASED on https://gist.github.com/why-not/18c5c0c00ee4cddf5ca176f770918639
# This is how the cron file should look like.

# PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/sn$
# * * * * * /home/script/stop-idle-gcloud.py > /tmp/user_error.log


## Watchout, for some reason cron files seem to require an extra new line at the end,
## consult this SO: https://askubuntu.com/questions/23009/why-crontab-scripts-are-not-working
## Also take care to setup a PATH variable for the cron explicitly. It doesn't see
	# BASED on https://gist.github.com/why-not/18c5c0c00ee4cddf5ca176f770918639
	# This is how the cron file should look like.

	# PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/sn$
	# * * * * * /home/script/stop-idle-gcloud.py > /tmp/user_error.log


	## Watchout, for some reason cron files seem to require an extra new line at the end,
	## consult this SO: https://askubuntu.com/questions/23009/why-crontab-scripts-are-not-working
	## Also take care to setup a PATH variable for the cron explicitly. It doesn't see