Connect to Telnyx

Point your LiveKit CLI and SDKs at the Telnyx platform.

Connecting to the Telnyx LiveKit platform is a URL and credential swap. No code changes.

Get your credentials

1. Log in to the Telnyx Portal
2. Generate a Telnyx API key (search for “API keys”)
3. Create a LiveKit API secret — a secret string you choose (like a password). This is used to sign JWTs for authentication.

Configure the CLI

Set your environment variables:

export LIVEKIT_URL=https://nyc1.livekit-telnyx.com
export LIVEKIT_API_KEY=<your-telnyx-api-key>
export LIVEKIT_API_SECRET=<your-livekit-api-secret>

Verify the connection:

lk room list

Available regions

See Regions for all available platform and SIP endpoints.

SDK configuration

Server SDKs (Python, Go, Node.js) just need the URL and credentials:

from livekit.api import LiveKitAPI

api = LiveKitAPI(
    url="https://nyc1.livekit-telnyx.com",
    api_key="<your-telnyx-api-key>",
    api_secret="<your-livekit-api-secret>",
)

If you’re migrating from LiveKit Cloud or self-hosted, change the three environment variables and everything else stays the same.