Advanced Scene Switcher

Advanced Scene Switcher 1.30.2

Really great plugin and smart developer!
It's hard to comprehend how many possibilities and combinations of uses we get with this development.
Thanks a lot!!!
This plug-in saves me so much effort (and stress) during a live stream, and @Warmuptill has been super-responsive. I've been saved by having the new Media tab (initially buggy but fixed super fast... and exactly what I want/need). Recent improvements (ex saving of settings) are really nice refinements / maturing of this impressive and immensely useful tool. And I'm looking forward to some of the upcoming updates
Great resource and seems to work very well. However, is there any way to pause the scene switcher when the takbar is focused in the same way as you can do with Task Switching (alt-tab) and OBS? Also, it would be nice if the description at the bottom of the window title tab could also be on the bottom of the pause tab scince the same tags seem to work on each.
Sugestion: Change audio source delay when change a scene
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Warmuptill
I believe this should already be possible, if I am understanding correctly what you are trying to do.
You can use the "Scene" condition to check for the scene change and use the "Audio" action to set the "Sync offset" the desired value.

If that is not what you were looking for or you need support in setting this up, feel free to reach out in the plugin's discussion thread! :)
I can't imagine working in obs without this plugin! It makes everything 1000x easier, Thank you so much for your work on this!
Essential plugin
Absolutely love this plugin and have been using it for the past 6 years or so to control 4 NDI cameras recording and streaming client podcasts, music events, church services, conferences, comedy shows and DJ club night etc. As a one man crew, it would be great to also have the added functionality of being able to switch to the camera (scene) with the most movement in. This way it could cut to spontaneous audience applause/ laughter - webinar/ podcast guest reactions and other spontaneous musician/ DJ antics and crowd reactions. I'm not a programmer, but got ChatGPT to create the coding for this as an OBS plugin, but the reality is Advanced Scene Switcher is such a massive part of what I do, it needs to integrate with or be part of the amazing plugin that I could not live without. Keep up the amazing work you are doing. A+++++
I found this a while back and for some reason, I didn't realize this wasn't part of the application itself. It's so expertly put together and works so flawlessly that it blew my mind to find out it was from one person. Warmuptill, thank you so much for this amazing plugin. you are awesome. I went and made an account just to leave this review and give you some love. Whenever you read this, I hope you're having an amazing day! Your work is greatly appreciated. hopefully someone big comes and hires you some day!

As for the constructive part of this review, It gives you full control of nearly every aspect within and even outside of OBS. it opens so many windows to so many possibilities that it would take way too long to give you a full scope of the potential.

If you have an inkling of how "If this, Then that" works, then this is that, but with a lot of tools at your disposal.

It will take a little time to figure things out, but once you get past the tiny learning curve, you will have UNLIMITED POWER!!!! :D
It was good even before the last update. But the added macros are amazing. I no longer have to think about ending the stream when the ending song finishes. I no longer have to think about launching any program when I start the stream.
Imho this plugin should be more popular.
On macOS OSX is not working on OBS 26.0.2, however it works in 26.1.2.
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Warmuptill
OBS is shipped with certain versions of libraries the plugin depends on.
The version of these libraries was changed from OBS 26.0 to OBS 26.1 and I chose to support the newer versions of OBS.

I could of course always build two version of the plugin but this would probably cause too much confusion.

In general I hope that the problem resolves itself over time as people slowly migrate to more recent versions of OBS on macOS.
But if you have suggestions on how to handle this situation better I am all ears :)

Unfortunately the plugin overview page also does not let me select OBS 26.1 as the minimum supported version, as only changes in major version seem to be supported. (So OBS 25, OBS 26, ...)
Plugin working less and less well through the updates, I don't know why but now it takes a long time (up to 15sec) to detect a change from a file (even if the "check delay" is still at 300ms)
Really good plugin, works extremely well on X11 and Windows platforms.

Through no fault of the developer, the cursor isn't captured well in Wayland which really sucks. Haven't been able to come up with a workaround yet.

It's a Wayland limitation as they've restricted access to that hard... but at the same time Wayland is kind of the standard for most distros now. There might be some places like pipewire to look at workarounds on this , but in the meantime no bueno.
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Warmuptill
If there is any known (and feasible) workaround to get the global cursor position on Wayland based windowing systems I am open to adapt the plugin to handle this case.
Unfortunately so far I am not aware of any.

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Update:
A potential workaround by achow101 can be found in this GitHub issue:
https://github.com/WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher/issues/512#issuecomment-2372785305

It introduces a custom condition type "KWin Cursor" via the scripting interface.
Under the hood it uses "kdotool" to query the cursor position.
So, if this tool should be available for your particular Linux distribution it might be worth a shot.
I love this plug-in, but since i update obs, stop working, i try to install the last version of Advanced Switcher, but the problem still there...
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Warmuptill
Unfortunately, handling support requests via reviews is very difficult.
Please provide more information in the discussion section and I am sure we can figure out what the issue is. :)
Overall great tool
I'm missing a feature, to keep one scene active while a window is open
e.g. - while game is running, keep scene active even if I alt+tab - do not switch to default scene
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Warmuptill
Ignore Windows and Executable based scene switching could work for this case.
i have a problem witch the "transitions" both options do not work properly

-try 1
options above:
from "Scene 1" to "Scene 2" with "transition 1"
and
from "Scene 2" to "Scene 1" with "transition 2"
and
from "Scene 1" to "Scene 3" with "transition 1"
and
from "Scene 3" to "Scene 1" with "transition 2"
---Don´t Work - its only 1 transition

-try 2
options below:
when "Scene 1" then switch to "transition 1"
when "Scene 2" then switch to "transition 2"
when "Scene 3" then switch to "transition 2"
---Don´t Work -2 of 3 do not work. he does not even change to the other scene

hope you can help me.
it is otherwise a cool tool
Hello! It's a very good plugin, I use it a lot, although may I ask something? Is there something like this, for streamlabs? I want to switch to it, but this holds me back a little bit
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Warmuptill
I don't know if something like this exist for streamlabs.
This has been a very perfect plugin for everything I needed.

When OBS crashes (not related to the plugin), the plugin stops working no matter how many times I restart OBS. Had to resort to restart my PC to get it back up working.
Hi, the plugin was working well but now Windows Defender is quarantining the plugin as it is being detected as a trojan? Any insight on this?
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Warmuptill
Hi, I have no clue why that would be the case :(
If you have any doubts the source code is available.
Where did you download the plugin? Which version? Was this already the case for previous versions?

EDIT: I have disabled the download for now, while I investigate this further.
EDIT2: Apparently the 32-bit Windows version of the plugin was somehow triggering windows defender.
Rebuilding the plugin once again with a different version number seems to have resolved the issue for now.
Release was updated and download is enabled again.
It's very good, although at the present release, there is not yet the way to edit a line, instead of to delete it and substitute it.
When you have few scenes, it's not an issue. But with a lot of scenes, it's cumbersome.
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Warmuptill
Thank you! :)

Editing the entries in place is definitively on the to-do list.
I just havn't found a way to implement it in a reasonable amount of work.
i dont like the week day are removed from time tab
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Warmuptill
This was not intentional and should be fixed already - please download the plug-in again (same version) and the time tab will once again show the weekday options.
But thanks for also reporting the issue! :)
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