Living lab · Profile #14 · StreamerHouse · LA

StreamerHouse / Echo Park

The flagship living-lab. Six creators, one permanent rig, twelve months of test logs. Below: what they bought, what failed, and how they actually make their money.

ActiveUpdated weeklyPro setup
14
Months operational
4.2k
Combined avg viewers
2,890h
Total stream hours
38
Gear rotations
3
Stream drops · YTD
Origin story

Six streamers, one router, a year of receipts.

StreamerHouse started as a sublet experiment. Three IRL creators rented a house in Echo Park, pooled gear, and ran it as a permanent stream lab. Today it’s six people and a 14-month log of what actually breaks when you run a rig that can’t go down.

We onboarded the house as livestreamers.org’s living test bed in Q3 ’25. Every gear rotation goes through this rig first. Below, their exact stack — no marketing-page nonsense.

Gear stack · What’s plugged in right now
$8,420 TOTAL
Camera
DJI Osmo Pocket 3 × 2
Lab pick
$1,038
Camera B
Sony FX3 (anchor cam)
$3,899
Audio
Shure SM7B + RodeCaster Pro II
$1,099
Audio B
Rode Wireless GO 3
Lab pick
$349
Router
Peplink MAX BR1 5G + Cradlepoint backup
Critical
$2,298
Power
EcoFlow Delta 2 (always on)
$999
Lighting
Aputure 60D × 3 + LED panel array
$1,740
Biggest technical problem · solved

Echo Park has terrible Verizon. We bonded around it.

The house sits in a known Verizon dead zone. First three streams dropped inside 90 minutes. We added a T-Mobile primary, Verizon backup, AT&T as the failsafe, and a Starlink Mini on the patio for when all three sag.

Result · last 90 days
99.7%
Uptime
14.2Mbps
Avg uplink
11
Failovers
0
User-facing drops
Lessons learned · the year in retrospect

Five things they’d do differently.

01
Buy the Peplink before any cameras. The cameras don’t matter if your stream drops.
02
Two power systems. Always. Single battery = single point of failure.
03
Pre-stream checklist on the wall, laminated. Drops dropped 80%.
04
Don’t cheap out on the mic. Audio loss kills retention faster than video.
05
Save 25% of every revenue dollar for gear refresh. The treadmill is real.
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$8,420
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Platform mix
Twitch68%
YouTube18%
TikTok10%
Kick4%
Revenue mix · last 90d
Subscriptions
42%
Bits / donations
19%
Affiliate links
16%
Sponsorships
12%
YouTube ads
11%
Favorite tools
OBS 31Twitch StudioRestreamStreamlabsStream Deck XLDavinci ResolveNotion
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