The chat room will be accessible for all viewers, even those who don't have an accountonyourinstance. Those "anonymous" users just have to choose a nickname before theycan begin talking in the chat.
As a Peertube administrator, youcan setup this plugin onyourinstance simply by using the Peertube plugin marketplace included in the administration interface.Search for "livechat", then click "install": that's it!
![Screenshot of Peertube plugins admin page. The search fields contains "livechat", and the search results show the livechat plugin.](/peertube-plugin-livechat/images/installation.png?classes=shadow,border&height=200px "Livechat installation")
The plugin has many advanced features.As it is using the [XMPP](https://xmpp.org/) standard "under the hood", it is possible for Peertube administrators to allow advanced usages (connection using XMPP clients, chatbots, bridge to other chat protocols, ...).More information in the relevant sections of this documentation.
This plugin can handle federation: when viewing a livestream from a remoteinstance, you will join the chat room withyour local account.You will be automatically connected withyour current nickname and avatar.
Some times, you have to protect your community from bad people.As an instanceadministrator, youcan choose to disallow federation for the livechat plugin.If remote actors behave badly, streamers, moderators and administrators can ban or mute users.
This plugin comes with a built-in [chat bot](/peertube-plugin-livechat/documentation/user/streamers/bot/).Check its documentation for more information.
Youcan also plug in any other XMPP chat bot, using [XMPP External Components](https://prosody.im/doc/components).To do so, you just have to configure External Components access in the [plugin settings](/peertube-plugin-livechat/documentation/admin/settings).
When using software as [OBS](https://obsproject.com) for youlivestream, youcan embed the chat in the video stream.Thisis for example useful for replays.
In the following screenshot, youcan see an OBS setup, where the chat is included as a source in the current scene (background color can be changed, and can be transparent):