24/7 Stream with scheduled computer restarts

[AlexS123]

Hi all,
I'm trying to setup a 24/7 live stream to YouTube, but am running into a bit of an issue. The stream runs fine for at least 24 hours, but any time after that the stream will become frozen (only broadcasts a still image). I believe it's a limitation of the IP camera system (I think it's running out of memory). The solution I've come up with is to restart the streaming PC (this stops the stream and allows the camera system to 'refresh'). OBS automatically starts up when the PC restarts and *almost* starts to stream, except that it has a pop-up to 'manage broadcast', meaning a person has to go to the computer and reconfigure the stream.

Is there a way to have the 'manage broadcast' pop-up not appear and always have OBS start streaming when it boots up?

Thanks

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

I can't answer your specific question
However
Restarting the PC is going around the back 40, stopping at a neighbors, and getting a tune-up for the car when all that was needed was taking the trash outside.
Could a memory leak or bad driver be an issue? sure. But in that case, a scheduled Process Start/Stop, or similar may be sufficient
And in most cases, logging/off back in is itself overkill. Though for general computer, I recommended typically daily (for other use cases, not this one) log off (and a weekly reboot).. as a general guideline.

So in your case, I'd be inclined to come up with some automation in OBS to turn off camera, then at Operating System level, restart any associated IP camera processes/drivers, then turn on camera in OBS and see if that resolves your issue.

 

[AlexS123]

So in your case, I'd be inclined to come up with some automation in OBS to turn off camera, then at Operating System level, restart any associated IP camera processes/drivers, then turn on camera in OBS and see if that resolves your issue.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to try using Windows Task Scheduler to run some bat files. I'll experiment with the "--startstreaming" command.

 

[Umlingo]

Im thnking, it would be awesome with a feature like output-timer - But with the added fuctionality of stopping & restarting the stream every "X time" - the reason is to split the stream VOD into managble sections.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Im thnking, it would be awesome with a feature like output-timer - But with the added fuctionality of stopping & restarting the stream every "X time" - the reason is to split the stream VOD into managble sections.

I use, and 'd recommend checking out Advanced Scene Switcher for advanced OBS automation. The plugin doesn't do everything, but it does do a LOT (including having timer based actions included stop/start streaming/recording)