DZ_Da_Dude
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good idea… since its not working as intended
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Warmuptill
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I would suggest to set up a helper macro which set up various variables.
You can use those to generate the desired timestamp string.
The macro should look something like this:
You can import this example using this code:
Code:
AAAVXnic7VhbbyI3FP4rlp/abaAMm220vG2zRIu0aVDIpqqqqDIzhxmLwR7ZHhYa8d97jj03GnVLSx4HgTT+zsXn8tmD/cw3Ijba8snvz1yJDfAJX4BjH4UD9iiMFMscLL/ghSgtClcit0AjI/Ic8gbQ6joTKm017FoW0x3Ed2rhhHENnhpdFs0o0fEap3NSpRjCMzeQSuvANAqZsPel+rl0Tis+caYM2JyieYHiTK60n8WyE1gm0yzHn5utrrVKpJNa2Qe0aDRM7f8Bdhgnx/nqfI9wPydKSvVS9iVgKI2PJgkRVUrt/EwYYBT28MjihgL6lomPeMgPF6FrH2ISNTqLIpcOizfX1o99TwvqbfT+3eGier56d3V4qhxM0V1w8s+2V9H7xnZElnWPPmm3hr3tcAIrEEC0fmoK1YWcTtMc5n+H2xL4eWOd56KwkDS+JT7yBDmJ9cp1KmOMBdlTGkFWtzqRK0mseeZObuAP9GedEVI5r2eBJvAE24qcWt88jIYod/uCHg8UsgwmWzDWlyE6IJyI/d3qV4C1lzXRhiAwqgcZFk6p2A0s2SUbjSbR28koYuPR+JK3SuNvaslUaQO09NrEPRT8B54bKEC066ksyPeduq/goFRX5n+m3Mn4OoN4XbstBHEEVfgQP+z4y4kcIv7XNm6rXQUTBkUPSe2+lvwS9qHfQBjeouMKnilMRCbM4/kSmIUc/LSojG1/DGlyHKly89hJutO46CeiRboB5WbJjk8GEY7L5cIZ3IqqHWvUheSf4BFkP+zmbR3e8Aq7FS7OvC/UWkmVoCEq0EJmTjNCvGqRixiOZRXIvkqX1e5wVa9kSm0LRepuvQ7zrmumi6rgI78ruGy6KwzY0En+HYvYD2zM3rC37Hv2IyOW4dq7Lq3Tm7nRm6JlklRF6WqMf0AXqWKeMxRj3YVJ8DDzyhR1pvOks2HLFwI+GGCVwTCH6Q4Gvu1babSi4j8et/zLYno/v7+7mX2eUjNjULBoukurO9D2on5V0VboYFOgm1YcEdFCHzzh9sSjA21i5zLyVivfoZ6SPSXPouTGE+lVOPlR7HtG9ow8l5H4wn8dPn7SZf/W7gl5NiEz4tHrvLWlKv3Joedkz8nzXtuBSa/CyoU/lPas7Fl5LivD9QayEs/f0Nzo0Bn8iaA6s6M7vupsbcW2Ug93GbASZe4ahhHP1fHR53SL8Mf0dP3qj8N/CKne1083aRbd6SYPYN0JBk+dCxQeDceXwzE//AVvTSreThen you can reference those variables using the
${variable name here} syntax in various text fields throughout the plugin.So a timestamp example could look like this:
This example would result in a line similar to this being appended to the given file:
My log message happened at: 2024-2-4-0-24-32
Hope that helps!
Hi
I have a few macro set up in the Advanced Scene Switcher and they're all working great. The plug in is so intuitive its amazing. BUT I am trying to get my broadcasts to automatically start at a certain time and I just cannot get it to work. I have tired a few different things and right now my brain has gone to fog. I am including screenshots of my latest attempt that failed. I have a broadcast set up to go to YouTube. I have tried setting the same time on the schedule broadcast section for the Youtube video and that doesn't work either. Can you see anything I am doing incorrectly, or any advise?
TIA
I have a few macro set up in the Advanced Scene Switcher and they're all working great. The plug in is so intuitive its amazing. BUT I am trying to get my broadcasts to automatically start at a certain time and I just cannot get it to work. I have tired a few different things and right now my brain has gone to fog. I am including screenshots of my latest attempt that failed. I have a broadcast set up to go to YouTube. I have tried setting the same time on the schedule broadcast section for the Youtube video and that doesn't work either. Can you see anything I am doing incorrectly, or any advise?
TIA
The macro is called "Start", but its actions are Stop.
Well that was my "duh" moment! This was just a test macro and the actual macro does have "start" I checked it again. The actual macro has a specific start time so I set up the test macro and missed the "stop" reference.
I got it! Didn't realize that you first had to create the broadcast and select it. Lots of steps, but taking a break and a new look got it working.
DZ_Da_Dude
New Member
Ok I never figured it out. It works on OBS but not live on twitch. here is what I'm trying to do
When I go live on twitch I want to add a small delay to allow people to join the stream.
After this small delay I want to start my "stream starting " animated screen scene (its 7 seconds long but I have it on loop) with the intro song playing
8 seconds before the song ends I want to switch to the animated logo intro scene (its 7 seconds) to play while the song finishes
After all of that is done go to the game capture.
How can I accomplish this if possible.
When I go live on twitch I want to add a small delay to allow people to join the stream.
After this small delay I want to start my "stream starting " animated screen scene (its 7 seconds long but I have it on loop) with the intro song playing
8 seconds before the song ends I want to switch to the animated logo intro scene (its 7 seconds) to play while the song finishes
After all of that is done go to the game capture.
How can I accomplish this if possible.
Warmuptill
Active Member
Sorry to hear that you are having issues!
What exactly happens when it "does not work"? (Nothing at all? The plugin switches to the wrong scene?)
I can't spot any obvious issues, which would contradict your description, at the moment.
It might help to track down the issue if you enable verbose logging, reproduce the problem, and share the corresponding log file.
(With a timestamp when the issue occurred and what happened that shouldn't have / what did not happen but should have)
I know how to do this on Linux, but I presume you're on Windows. Much less scriptability there, but maybe you can take my structure and figure something out.
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Because you have a soundtrack that continues through multiple scenes, I'd use a global source for that. Set up a loopback (virtual speaker and mic pair, so whatever goes to that "speaker" appears in that "mic", and any app can use them as if they were physical), connect a global source in OBS (Settings -> Audio) to that virtual mic, and connect a remote-controllable player to that virtual speaker. Yes, you're playing that song outside of OBS, and piping it in as a live source. The remote control for that player is its own external program that goes in the Run action of Adv. SS.
On Linux, I'd use MPD as the external player, and its command-line controller MPC.
Music Player Daemon
Music Player Daemon is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music.
www.musicpd.org
All three can be installed on Debian Linux and its derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) with just one command line:
sudo apt install mpd mpc gmpcIt takes a while to wrap your head around the documentation for the command-line controller and what options to give it from Adv. SS' Run action, and especially for the player's config file, but then it works well. Things either work or they don't, with not much indication of why (I'm a casual programmer myself; good error messages are amazingly hard!), but once they work, they keep working.
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Okay, now that you've got the sound outsourced and controlled from Adv. SS, and piped back into a global source in OBS, you can focus on the picture. The scenes themselves are silent, and you simply switch them as needed while the outsourced soundtrack continues unaffected.
For the media-ending trigger, I'd use this condition instead:
Of course, you can specify a particular media item instead of the "any" shown here, but "any" works too. Mine goes to the Previous Scene, to make it a truly-general "return from whatever", with nothing actually specified, but of course you can send it to a specific one instead.
I think the key here is "Playing and Time remaining shorter", instead of "Ended" or "Ending". Maybe those two work now, but I've had enough problems with them in the past, not triggering, that I did this instead. AND, triggering a half-second early allows a half-second transition while it's still playing (or however long you want to make it), which gives a much more professional look anyway.
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So, between those two points and some timers, maybe that gets you going?
Also, instead of Wait actions, I like to use the Condition timers:
This gives you a series of short macros, compared to a single long macro with Waits. The huge advantage (IMO) is that you can escape the sequence easily, simply by switching to something else before the timer expires. And you can enter the sequence at any point, simply by switching to that scene, and it runs from there. It also makes it easy to loop several scenes, simply by sending the last one back to the first.
You can use that timer technique on anything, not just scenes. I do use Waits occasionally, but not very often, and they're always short. Mostly to avoid a race condition or let something stabilize, and not much more. All of my high-level timing is done as shown here.
Destroy666
Member
2 questions:
1. Can a variable dynamically refer to other variables? E.g. let's assume I used `${TickerSomePart} | ${TickerSomeOtherPart}` in save/load properties (which doesn't work = parse them) and then the variable would expand these each time it's used. Kind of like dynamic interpolation in programming.
2. If so, is there any way to track if the expanded content changes?
I'm pretty sure the answer to both is "no", but just making sure I'm not missing anything. The workaround is of course to use `Set to fixed value` variable action with text mentioned in question 1 once any of the parts changes. But that's not great to manage the more parts there are and the more times parts change. E.g. with 5 parts changing 3 times on average, you would have 15 places to change the action if you want to e.g. modify separators or add another part.
Maybe there's some better way I'm not thinking of.
1. Can a variable dynamically refer to other variables? E.g. let's assume I used `${TickerSomePart} | ${TickerSomeOtherPart}` in save/load properties (which doesn't work = parse them) and then the variable would expand these each time it's used. Kind of like dynamic interpolation in programming.
2. If so, is there any way to track if the expanded content changes?
I'm pretty sure the answer to both is "no", but just making sure I'm not missing anything. The workaround is of course to use `Set to fixed value` variable action with text mentioned in question 1 once any of the parts changes. But that's not great to manage the more parts there are and the more times parts change. E.g. with 5 parts changing 3 times on average, you would have 15 places to change the action if you want to e.g. modify separators or add another part.
Maybe there's some better way I'm not thinking of.
Destroy666
Member
I guess another simplier way is to use a macro with bunch of or conditions checking if any of the parts changed and then the action is used once. Forgot that possibility existed for a second. Still not too great with nesting, but ofc better.
vanawesome
New Member
Does anyone know why when i rename a macro hotkey trigger, it still shows as
"macro_condition_hotkey_2" when i call it via websocket command "GetHotkeyList"
I'm tyring to write a python script that will send OBS a TriggerHotkeyByName command when a certain sensor is triggered. But, even tho I see the commands coming through via the websocket server connection, the hotkey itself it not being triggered. I'm a noob at python, so could be something I'm doing wrong.... but not sure why the websocket doesn't recognize the hotkey name change I gave it.
"macro_condition_hotkey_2" when i call it via websocket command "GetHotkeyList"
I'm tyring to write a python script that will send OBS a TriggerHotkeyByName command when a certain sensor is triggered. But, even tho I see the commands coming through via the websocket server connection, the hotkey itself it not being triggered. I'm a noob at python, so could be something I'm doing wrong.... but not sure why the websocket doesn't recognize the hotkey name change I gave it.
vanawesome
New Member
This is OBS for Mac BTW. version 30.0.2
Warmuptill
Active Member
OBS hotkeys consist of a "name" and a "description" field.
The value modifiable in the hotkey condition, which is also visible the OBS settings menu, is the "description" field.
The "name" field is never changed after the hotkey was initially created, but there is no reason it could not also be adapted as far as I can tell.
A build where the "name" is also changed when the hotkey "description" is changed will be available here in a few minutes:
Cleanup · WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher@40d26b9
An automation tool for OBS Studio. Contribute to WarmUpTill/SceneSwitcher development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Please back up your settings before trying this build in case you should run into any issues. (If you do please let me know)
Hello!
I setup 2 macro:
1st one when the input streaming is paused thus the video source hasn't changed for a while,then switch to another scene,and it works fabulously.
But when the singnal is back and the video changes for a specified duration,the 2nd macro which switch back to the previous scene doen't work normal.
So, I am rather confused now.
I setup 2 macro:
1st one when the input streaming is paused thus the video source hasn't changed for a while,then switch to another scene,and it works fabulously.
But when the singnal is back and the video changes for a specified duration,the 2nd macro which switch back to the previous scene doen't work normal.
So, I am rather confused now.
Good afternoon.
Just wanted to stop in and thank the creator of this plugin. I have zero coding experience besides learning basic HTML in 10th grade computer class (in 2005). I started streaming about a year ago with my daughter. Just playing some simple Switch games and showing her how all of the Twitch stuff works. I didn't use many plugins, if any at all. I wish I would have known about this one though, because I could have done a bit more and made the stream perform a lot better.
In just 15 minutes, I've already programmed a few macros and have them working exactly as intended. This is great. I'm planning on making tutorial videos for the company I work for that shows trainees how to do certain things. This will be a huge help and I really appreciate the effort that's been but into this.
Thank you!
Just wanted to stop in and thank the creator of this plugin. I have zero coding experience besides learning basic HTML in 10th grade computer class (in 2005). I started streaming about a year ago with my daughter. Just playing some simple Switch games and showing her how all of the Twitch stuff works. I didn't use many plugins, if any at all. I wish I would have known about this one though, because I could have done a bit more and made the stream perform a lot better.
In just 15 minutes, I've already programmed a few macros and have them working exactly as intended. This is great. I'm planning on making tutorial videos for the company I work for that shows trainees how to do certain things. This will be a huge help and I really appreciate the effort that's been but into this.
Thank you!
Warmuptill
Active Member
Unfortunately, it is very difficult to say what the issue might be without further information.
Can you share the two macros you have set up?
You can do this by either by exporting the two macros or by exporting your settings to a file.
It might also be of use if you can provide a log file with verbose logging enabled and corresponding timestamp of when the issue happened in the log.
I've been searching through the pages, and can't seem to find what I'm looking for... What I'd like to do, is set it to when I switch from my "Starting" Scene to my "live" scene, it activates a unique transition (fade to color, 8 second duration) and during the transition plays a specific audio file. I have tried setting it to play, but it will only play the audio once the transition is complete. If I try having the source muted, and do unmute, same thing it waits until the full transition to unmute the audio, therefore skipping the audio. My audio is about 14 seconds long, though the tail end is fine to have after ending the transition.
Is this something currently possible?
Is this something currently possible?
This is what I setup..Maybe because the broadcasting scene is on the background,when the repaly scene remains in the preview window,so the macro cannot judge correctly?But how to get the broadcasting scene into the preview window automatically?