Originally developed for my site:
http://YokosoNews.com

Ustream is a great free live casting service. Anybody can become a broadcaster. However it's always hard to reach out to the audience.

If you can show visitors that you are live on Ustream, it could increase your viewership. So I made this simple add-on using Ustream API call. The source code was tuned by Yamanoi.

This is a free add-on with not so much of the support. If you would like to see more functionality, please drop a line. I will consider making them.

This add-on comes with Japanese language file
このアドオンは日本語対応です。日本語での説明はこちら。 

ATTENTION - High traffic webmasters

When you use this add-on, I highly recommend to ENABLE FULL PAGE CACHE!!! Or Ustream may block the status check from your website.

Features

• It checks if the desired Ustream channel is broadcasting live or not
• You can select 3 different sizes for on-air status

The instruction

1. Click to add the block
2. Enter the URL of your Ustream channel
3. Select the image type
4. Save

For those of who want to modify the image

1. Go to /packages/katz515_ustream_status_simple/blocks/ustream_status_simple/images/
2. Replace any of the image file
3. Modify HTML width and height in /packages/katz515_ustream_status_simple/blocks/ustream_status_simple/view.php if you want to change the image size

This is very basic add-on. If you understand concrete5's custom templates, and HTML, you can change the image easily.

Similar Add-on

Also check my other addon, "Twitcasting Live Status" It does the same thing for Twitcasting.