Advanced Scene Switcher 1.25.5

Important note: You will have to use at least OBS 28 to use this version of the plugin!​

Please make sure to back up your settings before updating OBS to version 28!​

Additions:​

• Added initial support for variables.
  
  Variables are intended to allow users to simplify complex macro setups.
  They each have a name and a value, which can be checked using the Variable condition and modified using the Variable action.
  Variables can also be used in action and condition types which allow selecting scenes or scene items.
  For more details and an example how to use them see this wiki entry.
• Added support for "events" to the Websocket action and condition.
  
  The supported message types that can be used with the "Websocket" action and condition now are "Requests" and "Events".
  • Requests (1) are sent to one specific target via the specified connection.
  • Events (2) are sent to all clients that are connected to the obs-websocket server the event is emitted from.
• Enable Image slide show sources to be used in the Media condition and action.
  
  It is highly recommended to use at least OBS 28.0.2 for the condition to behave as expected.
• Improvements to the Screenshot action.
  
  • This action now allows creating screenshots of scenes (including placeholders like "previous scene")
  • This action allows saving the screenshots to custom path.
• Added option to disable hotkey registration for new macros.
  
  This will mostly be useful for users who create a lot of macros and don't want OBS hotkey settings to be filled with mostly macro related hotkeys.
• Improvements to the Video condition type.
  • Added an option to reduce video matching at the cost of potentially delaying condition check of other macros.
    
    Without this option matching a pattern will take at least the duration of the interval the scene switcher performs its checks at (default 300ms), due to the condition first grabbing a screenshot and in a later step performing the match.
    With it being checked the screenshot and the matching step will be performed one after the other.
  • Slightly adjusted layout to decrease size of the condition.
• Improvements to regular expression matching.
  
  Added configuration options for the regular expression matching for the following condition types:
  • File
  • Filter
  • Scene item transform
  • Source
  • Websocket
  These configuration options will allow:
  • Partial matching
  • Case insensitive matching
  • Dot matching new line
  • Adding inline comments using Qt ExtendedPatternSyntax

Changes:​

• Hide Scene Groups tab when option to hide legacy tabs is checked.
  It was being confused too often with the old "Sequence" tab.
• Slight UI changes and layout adjustments to better support new OBS themes.
• Add content / modification date changed as separate options to file condition.
  This will make it easier for users who are not familiar with regular expressions to use these checks without matching any particular file content.
• Set sensible default paths when browsing using the file selection widget in most places.
• Only show duration selection in the scene switch action for transitions which support a dynamic transition length.

Fixes:​

• Fixed scene collection data growing unnecessarily when repeatedly changing scene collections.
• Fixed UI not showing correct logic type if removing the top condition of macro.
• Fixed potential crash in video condition.
• Fixed missing icons for the buttons to move macros up / down.
• Fixed macro condition not saving count value when checking state of multiple macros.
• Fixed volume control widgets not showing.

Important note: You will have to use at least OBS 28 to use this version of the plugin!​

Please make sure to back up your settings before updating OBS to version 28!​

Additions:​

• Added support for OBS 28.
  With this also comes support for native Apple Silicon builds.
  Note that the different versions of the plugin for Windows, MacOS, and Linux are now split into separate archives.
  The prebuilt Linux binaries depend on Qt6.
• Added the "Websocket" condition and action action types.
  This will allow you to trigger macros on other OBS instances by sending messages via websockets.
  For more details you can have a look at this wiki entry.
  
• Added the option to split recordings to the "Recording" action.
  
• Added the option to refresh sources to the "Source" action.
  This can be used to e.g. refresh browser sources.
  
• Added the "Http" action which will allow you to more easily send GET and POST requests.
  
• Added a condition to check current profile.
  
• Added the option to check the states of multiple macros at the same time to the "Macro" condition type.
  
• Added Spanish translation (provided by EliasDIPA)

Changes:​

• Set the default screenshot file extension to *.png in the "Video" condition.
• Minor UI layout adjustments for new Yami theme of OBS 28.

Fixes:​

• Fixed duration modifier of media conditions not saving correctly.
• Fixed potential crashes when removing macros.
• Fixed hotkeys not being registered for new macros.

Additions:​

• Improved the date condition:
  • Added the option to select "before" and "after" for time of simple date view. (1)
  • Added the option to ignore time component in the simple view. (2)
    
  • Display next match time if repeat is selected. (1)
  • Added the option to preserve the original date in combination with repeat option. (2)
    
• Added the option to set the show and hide transition of sources and override transitions of scenes using the "Transition" action.
  
• Added the new duration modifier "within the last" to macro conditions.
  
  This will result in an overall condition being true for at least the specified duration even after the underlying condition is no longer true.
• Added a new action "Studio mode" which will allow you to en-/disable the Studio mode.
  
• Added option to disable registering of pause hotkeys for macros.
• Added Spanish locale (provided by EliasDIPA).

Changes:​

• Removed artificial delay in "Replay buffer" action before saving replay buffer could be triggered again.
  This was added as attempting to save the replay buffer too frequently would result in no file action being saved, but lead to unexpected behaviour in certain setups.
  A warning has been added instead.
• The actions "Swap scene" and "Switch preview scene" have been combined into the new "Studio mode" action.
• Enable the option to check for the previous scene during an active transition.
• Allow for finer control of the threshold used for video pattern matching.

Fixes:​

• Fix macOS memory leak.
• Fix crash when deleting last macro when highlighting of macro segments is enabled.
• Fix "Media" and "Audio" conditions unexpectedly returning true after unpausing macros containing these condition types.
• Fix scene group random option not being random.
• Fix "Cursor" condition preview frame blocking mouse inputs.
• Fix "Wait until transition to target scene is complete" waiting too long. (E.g. when using the "Cut" transition type).

Known issues:​

• Newly created macros will not register pause hotkeys.
  They will however be registered when rebooting OBS or toggling the registering of hotkeys.

Additions:​

• Improved the video condition type:
  • Added the option to apply the condition checks to only parts of the selected video source.
    
    This option can be used for all types of checks where it would be applicable:
    • exact match
    • change detection
    • pattern matching
    • object detection
    This change should open up much more possibilities to use this condition type and can also save a lot of resources for the more expensive operations like object detection.
    For an example on how this could be used have a look at this guide to automatically hide parts of the screen if a certain pattern is found.
  • Added the option to select OBS' main video output as the video source to check.
• Improved the audio action type:
  • Added the option to specify rate of change instead of duration for audio fade. (1)
  • Added the option to abort any already active audio fade when starting new fade. (2)
    When not using this new option a new audio fade will not start if an audio fade was already in progress for a particular source.
  • Added the option to wait for an audio fade to complete before continuing with the next action. (3)
    
• Added media seek action.
  
• UI improvements:
  • Added the option to reorder individual conditions or actions via drag and drop.
  • Added a settings dialog to macro tab which contains a few options which can be useful to analyse ...
    • Which macros are currently being executed.
    • Which conditions are true.
    • Which actions are currently being performed.
  • 

Changes:​

• Reworked the stop action of the "Macro" action type to ...
  • Interrupt any ongoing "Wait" action.
  • Block until the macro in question is stopped.
• Reworked some of the state checks of the "Media" condition type.
  • Removed the "Played to end" state as it worked identically to the "Ended" state.
  • Introduced a new state "Ended(Playlist)", which can be used to check for the end of a playlist.
  • The "Ended" state will now also detect the end of individual playlist items.
  The state "Ended" and "Ended(Playlist)" will only make a difference on the VLC source type as the regular Media Source does not support playlists.
  Any existing Media condition previously using the "Ended" or "Played to end" state checks will automatically be adjusted to use the equivalent "Ended(Playlist)" check.
• Ignore delete hotkey if the macro tab is not in focus.
• Tabs which can be represented via macros will now be hidden by default on fresh installations of the plugin.
  This will not change your current settings.
  The goal of this change is to slowly transition away from these outdated tabs and remove them at some point in the future.
• Update zh-CN locale. (provided by qwe1154323937)

Fixes:​

• Fix date condition's "At" check not working correctly under rare circumstances.
• Fix random action not being very random.
• Fix fade animation triggering unexpectedly for action and condition controls.
• Fix start streaming action only working every second attempt.
• Fix UI freezes if using the video conditions preview dialog while switching to different condition type.

Additions:

• Added "OBS stats" condition type.
  
  It allows performing actions based on various OBS and system load related statistics:
  • FPS
  • CPU usage
  • RAM usage
  • Average frame time
  • Percentage of skipped frames
  • Percentage of missed frames
  • Percentage of dropped frames
  • Amount of data streamed or recorded
  • Current bitrate
• Added the option to check whether or not OBS is currently shutting down to the "Plugin state" condition type.
  
  This can be useful if you want to perform actions when closing OBS. For example, if you would want to prepare for the next time you start it back up.
• Added the option to toggle between a simple and a more advanced version of the date condition.
  
  The simple view supports setting up the condition by just providing a day of the week and a time.
• Added the option to highlight recently executed macros on the Macro tab.
  
• Added hotkey to delete macro segments.
  It can be found the OBS settings' hotkey section.
• Added Turkish locale (provided by @dargat)
• Allow reordering macros via drag and drop.
• Reworked the controls for the macro tab's condition and action areas.
  Instead of the controls appearing under each condition or action when hovering other them, these controls were moved to the bottom of the condition and action areas respectively.
  Individual conditions and actions can now be selected by clicking on them and be moved, deleted or copied using the controls mentioned before.
  
  This should make it easier to work with large amounts of conditions or actions and especially as this avoids the conditions and actions shifting around unexpectedly when hovering over them.
• Added frame around individual macro segments to visually separate them more clearly.
• Moved macro segments will now be highlighted to make it easier to track them visually.
• Removed a bunch of unnecessary collapsing animation triggering when reordering, adding or removing macro segments.
• In case of having only a few single actions or conditions in a macro the segments will no longer be stretched to fill the entire condition or action area.
• Slightly reduced spacing between macro segments.
• Reduced the space taken up by the text edit areas like they are used in the file, filter, source and transform condition and action types.
• Add context menu entry for expanding and minimizing the condition and action edit area.
• The "Show match" button of the video condition will now automatically refresh every second instead of only showing a single match.
  This will make it much easier to dial in the settings needed for a successful pattern match or object detection.

Changes:

• The last opened tab will now automatically be reopened when opening the plugin's settings dialog.
  It will reset to the General tab after restarting OBS.
• Allow selecting current scene, previous scene and scene groups in "Switch preview scene" action.
• Allow switching to already active scene if in studio mode.
• Use name of the macro to be copied when attempting to duplicate a macro.
• Also copy the logic type selection when duplicating conditions.
• Double clicking on items in the lists of the "Run" or "Sequence" actions will now allow you to edit the entry.
• Added the option to hide the tabs of the plugin which can be expressed via macros and reduce the visible tabs to "General", "Macro", "Network" and "Scene Group".
  This setting will be set as a default in a future version.
  

Fixes:

• Fix potential crashes when adding or removing macro actions or conditions.
• Fix scene switch action blocking unexpectedly
• Fix freeze when highlighting certain widgets

Special thanks to @lindenkron for his support in testing and providing feedback!

Additions:

• Add "Sequence" macro action.
  
  This new action will allow you to advance through a list of other macros' actions, advancing to the next item in the list each time this action type is performed.
  An example can be found here.
• Add macro action to stop other macros to the "Macro" action type.
  
• Add option to also check for configured volume level to the "Audio" condition type.

Fixes:

• Fix unexpectedly returning true for hotkey condition.
  The condition would return true after unpausing a macro, if a configured hotkey was pressed during the time the macro was paused.
• Fix dock location and size not saving correctly.
• Fix potential crashes reported with the recent beta releases of OBS.

Notes:

• The plugin folder structure has been slightly changed to move any dependencies the plugin ships with into a separate folder "adv-ss-plugins".
  This should make it easier if you would need to manually uninstall the plugin.

Additions:

• Add option to perform macro actions only on condition change.
  
• Enable the use of time constraints for transition condition type.
• Reintroduce checkbox to change current scene check transition behaviour.

Additions:

• Added the option create a dock widget to check and control whether or not the Advanced Scene Switcher is currently running.
  You can access it via View -> Docks -> Advanced Scene Switcher.
  
  It can be used just like any other dock and be freely placed in OBS' dock areas.
  
• Added the OpenVR macro condition. (Windows only for now)
  
  This will allow you to perform actions based on where your VR Headset is currently located.
  Thanks for the suggestion and support in testing @munkilicious!
• Added the option to check if an audio source is muted.
  
• Added the condition "Studio Mode".
  This will allow you to check whether or not studio mode and which preview scene is currently active.
  
• Added action to switch the current OBS profile.
  
• Added action to switch scene collections.
  
• Added action to import plugin settings from a file.
  

Improvements:

• Added the option to the "Switch scene" action to wait for the transition to complete before continuing with the next action.
  
  This will make it much easier to set up a sequence of scene switches without having to know the duration of each transition beforehand.
• Improved the scene item selection for visibility, order, and transform related macro actions and conditions.
  If a particular scene item exists multiple times in the selected scene you can now choose which scene item in particular shall be selected.
  
  The previous behaviour of selecting all scene items is also available still.

Fixes:

• Fix startup behaviour settings not loading correctly, causing the plugin to always be active on startup.
• Fix crash when reordering macros which were marked to run in the background.
• Fix volume not changing when selecting a fade with a duration of zero seconds.
• Fix plugin asking to backup settings when starting the plugin for the first time.

Notes:

• The OpenCV parts of the plugin have been moved outside the main plugin into a separate library.
  This was done to avoid the issue (especially on Linux) of the whole plugin not being able to start if a particular version of OpenCV was not available.
• I started work on the wiki for this plugin:
  https://github.com/WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher/wiki
  Feel free to contribute! :)

Additions:

• Add macro action for triggering screenshots.
  
  Individual sources, scenes or OBS' main output is supported.
• Add macro action to display system tray notifications.
  
• Add hotkey to toggle pause state of macros.
  
  This will allow setting up even more complicated hotkey actions.
• Add button to manually run macro actions.
  
  This will make it much easier to test macro actions.
• Allow running macros in parallel to other macros.
  
  Previously a macro containing actions that would take a long time to execute (e.g. the "wait" condition) would "block" the plugin from performing any other checks or actions during this time.
  While in some situations, this could be the desired effect, there are certainly also situations where this is not ideal. (E.g. a continuous scene switching loop)
  Checking this box will allow you to run a macro's action in parallel to other potentially running actions.
• Add condition to check if the plugin is running.
  
  This is mostly useful if you need a condition that is always true, but could also be used to perform actions if the plugin was running for a specific amount of time when combining it with a time constraint. (Small clock icon)

Improvements:

• Allow setting random duration in specified range.
  
• The run action now also supports supplying a path to a file that is not an application itself.
  So for example, if you pass it the path to an mp3 file and your default media player is VLC it will launch the VLC player and start playback of this file, just as if you would have clicked on the file's icon on the desktop.
• Add option to match any or all media sources of a specific scene.
  
• Add the option to execute another macro's actions.
  
• Suggest a file name when saving settings.
• Minor UI improvements like resize lists on the macro tab to minimum necessary height.

Changes:

• Add the option to check for the source and the target scene of an ongoing transition.
  
  At the same time the option "wait for transition to complete" was removed from the "current scene is" check as it did not really fit into that category and its description was not really formulated clearly to begin with.
  Note that the behaviour has not change for any already existing macros.
• Add a warning if the macro functionality is not running with highest priority.
• Update locale (zh-CN locale provided by qwe1154323937)

Notes:

• The plugin is now also available via Flatpak on Linux

The main focus of this update was fixing issues and improving upon existing functionality.
Additions:

• Add the option to fade in/out volume changes via the "Audio" macro action.
  
• Add macro action "Random", which will allow you to execute other macros at random.
  Paused macros will be ignored.
  
  This should allow you to expand upon the functionality provided by the "Random" tab if needed.
  I will probably expand upon this functionality in future, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to make it available to everyone in its current state.
• Allow selecting source type instead of just individual sources for scene visibility action.
  
  This should simplify some setups.
• Add scene-visibility macro condition.
  
• Allow use of "previous scene" in scene visibility action.
• Allow interacting with OBS main window while plugin settings are opened.

Fixes:

• Fix macro un-/pause hotkeys not working once a macro was executed.
• Fix add, delete, reorder not working when changing macro segment type.
• Fix macro count not updating correctly.

Other changes:

• No longer check the conditions of paused macros.
  This should improve the performance if you have a lot of paused macros with "expensive" conditions like video pattern matching.
• Ensure contents of combo boxes are readable when changing scene/filter.