# Recognize Live Channels and Custom Content

A combination of Live TV Channel Detection Service and Custom Content Recognition Service can make your second screen apps more attractive and flexible.

**Hybrid Recognition** project can bind both **Audio & Video** and **Live Channel** buckets and make it possible to identify live tv channel and media contents ( advertisement, shows/series, songs and movies ) at the same time.

### Create an account

Sign up an account on [this page](https://console.acrcloud.com/signup) and click the link on the verification email to complete the registration.

### Create buckets

Please refer to the [Recognize Custom Content](/get-started/tutorials/recognize-custom-content.md) and [Detect Live TV Channels ](/get-started/tutorials/detect-live-and-timeshift-tv-channels.md)tutorial to create Custom Files and Live Channel buckets and upload files and ingest live channels to the buckets.

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MQHmM7xzlSNdNF4kXhu" %}
[Recognize Custom Content](/get-started/tutorials/recognize-custom-content.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MQLwsA3blarTi4uS2A0" %}
[Detect Live & Timeshift TV Channels](/get-started/tutorials/detect-live-and-timeshift-tv-channels.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

### Create a project

Go to your [dashboard](https://console.acrcloud.com/), build and configure a **Hybrid Recognition** project under **Live Channel Detection** service, attach multiple buckets ( **Audio & Video** bucket and **Live Channels** bucket ).

![](/files/-MQRL6mU3cBYrnMOIXUP)

### Find the credentials

Save the **“host”, “access\_key”, “access\_secret”** of your project for future use.

![](/files/-MQRLL4429jkREbO1ymi)

### Integrate with SDK/API

Start sending requests with [Mobile SDK](/sdk-reference/mobile-sdk.md), [Backend SDK](/sdk-reference/backend-sdk.md), [Identification API](/reference/identification-api/identification-api.md) or [File Scan Tool](/tools/file-scan-tool.md). You can find all of the SDKs and Tools on [this page](https://console.acrcloud.com/#/tools).

### Manage via Console API

You can manage everything via Console API without doing it manually via the dashboard:

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MPNDVNjGFhcXUVfb2AY" %}
[Live Channels](/reference/console-api/buckets/live-channels.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MDsvdTMPA1bB6cJSgDI" %}
[Buckets](/reference/console-api/buckets.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MDt7u22mAzT5sqHc4q1" %}
[Base Projects](/reference/console-api/base-projects.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

### Metadata

Check out [**Custom Content Metadata**](/reference/identification-api/metadata/custom-files.md) and [**Live Channel Metadata**](/reference/identification-api/metadata/live-channels.md) to get familiar with the JSON structure of the response data for future development.

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