After jumping through a lot of hoops, with both Switchs' networking, I was finally able to get this resolved (Networking was dropping for no reason.)
Hopefully this helps anyone out there reading this.
Email address for each consumer (including kids < 13, which is kind of sketchy).
Create Microsoft/XBox Life account for each consumer. In my case, one for myself, one for my wife, and one for each of my two kids.
Create Nintendo Account (under primary).
This is where I created a Family Subscription for me and my family. This was required to get passed the requirement of a Nintendo subscription to see Realms.
Create Nintendo "Family" and invite all other consumers.
Create Realms Subscription. This is a monthly subscription, which currently allows up to 10 accounts connected at once.
Once all of the accounts have been created, on the Primary account create a new Realm.
(Once created, you can upload an existing Minecraft map to overwrite the one generated.)
Login to the Realm on the primary account, and start Friending and inviting all the other Microsoft/XBox Live usernames/gamertags. (If you don't know their default gamer tag, you will have to log into XBox Live on each to either find the randomly generated on or create a new one.)
This is the part that took me about an hour for each account. As there is no easy way to both search for a friend and invite them at the same time.
The UI does not automatically refresh when waiting for users to accept invite/friendship, so you have to get all the way out of the Realm and go back to the main title screen, then go back into the Realm section just to find the friend has been added. This allows you to then invite them to the Realm.
Request
There needs to be some cleanup on that UI to either auto-refresh friends/members list, or have a button that allows the end-user to click to refresh those names.
Brian Metzler
After jumping through a lot of hoops, with both Switchs' networking, I was finally able to get this resolved (Networking was dropping for no reason.)
Hopefully this helps anyone out there reading this.
Email address for each consumer (including kids < 13, which is kind of sketchy).
Create Microsoft/XBox Life account for each consumer. In my case, one for myself, one for my wife, and one for each of my two kids.
Create Nintendo Account (under primary).
This is where I created a Family Subscription for me and my family. This was required to get passed the requirement of a Nintendo subscription to see Realms.
Create Nintendo "Family" and invite all other consumers.
Create Realms Subscription. This is a monthly subscription, which currently allows up to 10 accounts connected at once.
Once all of the accounts have been created, on the Primary account create a new Realm.
(Once created, you can upload an existing Minecraft map to overwrite the one generated.)
Login to the Realm on the primary account, and start Friending and inviting all the other Microsoft/XBox Live usernames/gamertags. (If you don't know their default gamer tag, you will have to log into XBox Live on each to either find the randomly generated on or create a new one.)
This is the part that took me about an hour for each account. As there is no easy way to both search for a friend and invite them at the same time.
The UI does not automatically refresh when waiting for users to accept invite/friendship, so you have to get all the way out of the Realm and go back to the main title screen, then go back into the Realm section just to find the friend has been added. This allows you to then invite them to the Realm.
Request