Advanced Scene Switcher 1.28.1

[AaronD]

Hi,

OK, I can see that performing how you say it should and I wasn't aware of that.

However, I was wanting the nested macro to have it's own condition. I was hoping to split the condition logic over several macros to handle things like

If condition A and (condition B or condition C) then

Do you have any documentation on condition evaluation? For instance is it short circuit evaluation? How do I achieve bracket groups etc?

cheers,

David

The condition logic works as if you had all of your open brackets up front, and then close one for each condition. It's easy to program that way, and I've done that myself a few times in other projects. But it does have some limitations, like you can't directly do ((A or B) and (C or D)).

But we also have the Macro condition here. So what you might do, is make a macro that has part of your logic in it, and no actions, and then use the Macro condition to see if that macro is true. Something like:
Macro 1: (C or D), no actions
Macro 2: ((A or B) and Macro 1), do something

No short-circuiting. Everything is always evaluated, even if it would make no difference. Again, easy to program, at the expense of some runtime efficiency and maybe some side-effects. A big side-effect would be running an external process to get its return code, and that external process does something else too. That's not *necessarily* bad in all cases, but definitely something to be aware of!

 

[Guuvita]

none of the images of the changelog work :(

looks like renaming a variable from the cog menu in the macro tab crashes obs all the time

Also a request, could you add a save button or autosave after a configurable amount of time? each time obs crashes i lose all the work done unless i close and reopen the plugin window, and crashes being random makes an autosave kind of useful :(

 

[Warmuptill]

looks like renaming a variable from the cog menu in the macro tab crashes obs all the time

Can you please share the crash log?
I can't seem to reproduce it on my end for some reason.

looks like renaming a variable from the cog menu in the macro tab crashes obs all the time

Also a request, could you add a save button or autosave after a configurable amount of time? each time obs crashes i lose all the work done unless i close and reopen the plugin window, and crashes being random makes an autosave kind of useful :(

I will add that the plugin also saves its current settings when selecting a new macro.

 

[youjiman]

I am sorry about that!

I think I will need a bit more information to investigate what the issue might be.
Can you share a screenshot of the macro that is not working or export your settings to a file so I can try to reproduce the issue on my end?

Thank you. I attached a screenshot. The thing is I want to trigger the macro when there is a moment that have no game sounds. Yet the trigger will activated even there is sounds all the time. I did a workaround by change the setting from below 1% to below -40.00dB, and it will works but even when it has very low volume. Let me know if there anything else that I need to show

 

[Warmuptill]

Thank you. I attached a screenshot. The thing is I want to trigger the macro when there is a moment that have no game sounds. Yet the trigger will activated even there is sounds all the time. I did a workaround by change the setting from below 1% to below -40.00dB, and it will works but even when it has very low volume. Let me know if there anything else that I need to show

Ah, I see - Thanks for the hint that it works when using the dB value!
The calculation was off by a factor of 100 when using the percent based selection.

I will release a version with a fix for that issue later today.
And sorry for not catching that issue in the first place!

 

[RandomNerd]

I installed 1.25.0 but I don't see a "Variables" tab, did I miss something?

 

[Warmuptill]

I installed 1.25.0 but I don't see a "Variables" tab, did I miss something?

It will only be shown if at least one variable exists / is in use.

 

[Warmuptill]

Warmuptill updated Advanced Scene Switcher with a new update entry:

Advanced Scene Switcher 1.25.1

Important notes:

Please make sure to back up your settings!
If you run into any issues, please either post in the OBS forums or create an issue on GitHub!

Changes:​

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[Rozenman]

Hi all!
Please tell me how to put the contents of the clipboard into a variable? In particular, links to youtube?
TASK: copy a link from an email to the clipboard so that it immediately appears in the value of a variable.
Thankы!

 

[ATs_fm]

Hi Warmuptill,
I came across an issue with the websocket integration. After I set up a ws action adv-ss is constantly trying to connect to the ip even though I deleted the corresponding macro. Even if I delete all macros it still tries to connect constantly resulting in cluttering of the OBS log especially since I have set condition check to 10ms. Is there a way to fix this?
Also I came to find that MIDI triggers only register after I activate the trigger once without effect. Meaning I have to trigger every MIDI trigger once before it activates the corresponding actions.

 

[ATs_fm]

I've found at least a workaround for the ws issue: I exported every macro-group seperately, uninstalled and reinstalled the adv-ss plugin and imported all macro-groups again.

 

[AaronD]

Even if I delete all macros it still tries to connect constantly resulting in cluttering of the OBS log especially since I have set condition check to 10ms. Is there a way to fix this?

I've found at least a workaround for the ws issue: I exported every macro-group seperately, uninstalled and reinstalled the adv-ss plugin and imported all macro-groups again.

You don't have to do all that! Add a dummy macro, give it a WS condition, select the connection you want to remove as if you're going to use it, and then you have a Remove option:

That IS really confusing though. Sorry, @Warmuptill, for yanking things around after you've just done them, but I think it'd be VERY helpful to have either a single Resources tab or a separate tab for each resource, always present either way, and allows adding, removing, changing properties, etc. for everything that is used by the macros but is not itself a macro. Variables, connections, etc.

 

[Warmuptill]

You don't have to do all that! Add a dummy macro, give it a WS condition, select the connection you want to remove as if you're going to use it, and then you have a Remove option:
View attachment 102288

That IS really confusing though. Sorry, @Warmuptill, for yanking things around after you've just done them, but I think it'd be VERY helpful to have either a single Resources tab or a separate tab for each resource, always present either way, and allows adding, removing, changing properties, etc. for everything that is used by the macros but is not itself a macro. Variables, connections, etc.

Sure, I can look into adding a "Websocket connections" tab as well. :)

 

[Warmuptill]

Also I came to find that MIDI triggers only register after I activate the trigger once without effect. Meaning I have to trigger every MIDI trigger once before it activates the corresponding actions.

Thanks for reporting the issue! :)

Just to clarify:
What do you mean by MIDI trigger?
Is this a MIDI condition or MIDI action?
Was this issue introduced with 1.25 or did it already happen before?

 

[Bairespm]

Hello, I'm trying to understand how queues are used, I understand what they are used to give priority, but I can't understand how to implement it, sorry, but someone could explain with an example. a thousand apologies for my English. thank you

 

[Warmuptill]

Warmuptill updated Advanced Scene Switcher with a new update entry:

Advanced Scene Switcher 1.25.2

Important notes:​

Please make sure to back up your settings!
If you run into any issues, please either post in the OBS forums or create an issue on GitHub...

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[Warmuptill]

Hello, I'm trying to understand how queues are used, I understand what they are used to give priority, but I can't understand how to implement it, sorry, but someone could explain with an example. a thousand apologies for my English. thank you

View attachment 102340

Hello,
what are the circumstances in which you are considering using action queues?

Creating them is quite simple.
First create a Queue action or condition and select "add new queue":

Now for an example how to use them:

Assume you have configured a macro which shows the user name of new follower you received on Twitch in text source, which looks similar to this macro:

This first grabs the Twitch follower user name and puts into the variable "Follower", then modifies the text source settings using this new variable, then shows the source for 5 seconds, and finally hides it again.

This example macro has the problem that no other macro will be run while those "long" waits are performed.

You might think that you can simply enable the option to "Run the macro in parallel to other macros", but this will only help in certain cases.
It works fine, when you only receive a single follower at most every five seconds.
You will run into issues, however, if you receive multiple followers within one 5 second span.

Here the first follower triggers the macro to be run and while it is running the second follower event is received.
As the macro is already running the actions will not be executed.

To resolve this problem you can instead add those actions to a queue and slightly rework the macro / split it into two macros.

First the macro which does the bulk of the "work".
Meaning it modifies the text source's settings and shows it for the specified amount of time:

(Note that it does not have any conditions - it will be used to as the collection of actions to add to the queue)

Second a macro which grabs the Twitch follower name and assigns it to the "Follower" variable and then add the previously created macro to the queue.

(The variable will be resolved when the action is added to the queue - unless configured differently in the queue settings)

Hope that helps you to understand how and when to use queues!
Feel free to ask more questions!

 

[AaronD]

(The variable will be resolved when the action is added to the queue - unless configured differently in the queue settings)

That's huge! Good idea to do it that way!

I would have made it like "traditional" software, which waits to resolve it until it's actually used, which would NOT work in your example!

 

[Bairespm]

Hello,
what are the circumstances in which you are considering using action queues?

Creating them is quite simple.
First create a Queue action or condition and select "add new queue":
View attachment 102363

Now for an example how to use them:

Assume you have configured a macro which shows the user name of new follower you received on Twitch in text source, which looks similar to this macro:

View attachment 102364

This first grabs the Twitch follower user name and puts into the variable "Follower", then modifies the text source settings using this new variable, then shows the source for 5 seconds, and finally hides it again.

This example macro has the problem that no other macro will be run while those "long" waits are performed.

You might think that you can simply enable the option to "Run the macro in parallel to other macros", but this will only help in certain cases.
It works fine, when you only receive a single follower at most every five seconds.
You will run into issues, however, if you receive multiple followers within one 5 second span.

Here the first follower triggers the macro to be run and while it is running the second follower event is received.
As the macro is already running the actions will not be executed.

To resolve this problem you can instead add those actions to a queue and slightly rework the macro / split it into two macros.

First the macro which does the bulk of the "work".
Meaning it modifies the text source's settings and shows it for the specified amount of time:
View attachment 102365
(Note that it does not have any conditions - it will be used to as the collection of actions to add to the queue)

Second a macro which grabs the Twitch follower name and assigns it to the "Follower" variable and then add the previously created macro to the queue.

View attachment 102366
(The variable will be resolved when the action is added to the queue - unless configured differently in the queue settings)

Hope that helps you to understand how and when to use queues!
Feel free to ask more questions!

Perfect, I understand, you are very clear, thank you very much. I just need to understand how to use sizes 1 to 9,
and Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions.

 

[Bairespm]

@Warmuptill Another issue that worries me is that when I turn on the PC and the midi device is disconnected and after it turns on I connect the midi device. advss does not detect it and all my midi configurations are left without working.

How can I create a macro that checks if the configured device is connected, if not, I get an alert.

I can think of something that would be great. Yes, in the midi macros we can associate them with an option that is MIDI 1 or MIDI 2 or MIDI 3, etc...

and these in turn are in the general menu.

so assuming someone has the same error that I have, if it is deconfigured. You won't have to go macro by macro choosing the Right Midi device. since the macros would be associated with device "MIDI 1" for example.

I will try to show in an image what I am trying to explain, which could be a great solution.

It's just a suggestion, which would help me a lot like this every time the midi device is unconfigured, just by choosing it in the main menu and all my macros would be configured again. thanks for your time