Alerts When Streaming Fails

[JohnPee]

This is question from a noob rather than a technical problem. I have been "playing/testing" a simple set-up to stream local youth sports to YouTube. I intend to set the system up and focus on the camera side of streaming leaving OBS to do what it does best. Normally this works flawlessly, but today after about 50 minutes YouTube reported that the stream had been disconnected. Looking at OBS it believed it was still streaming. I looked at the OBS logs and it seemed that there were a large number of dropped frames, presumably the dropped frames were interpreted by YouTube as a disconnection. So my questions are :

1. Can OBS raise a txt or email alert when dropped frames exceed a preset value.
2. Not an OBS question, but can YouTube raise a txt or email alert when a stream is "ended".

 

[lofihap]

looked at the OBS logs and it seemed that there were a large number of dropped frames,

I would recommend that you keep the OBS stats dock available; it contains pertain information that will allow you to see what's going on with CPU, rendering lag, encoding lag, and dropped frames in real time while streaming or recording.

2 ways to open Stats dock --
View > Stats = undockable stats window
View > Docks > Stats = dockable stats window

 

[konsolenritter]

Answer to 2) That is naturally given (while not on the player for the viewers, but) on your YT studio page during your streaming. There YT warns if it gets not enough data for seconds.

Regarding 1) Text or eMail wouldn't fit if you have connection issues at all!
You only can set obs to automatically reconnect (in the settings) and a reasonable timeout/retry time like 6 secs or 10. If your connection will develop serious problems over half a minute or more, all notification is in vain (wasted).
If you encounter other issues then there are still problems regarding your installation at all.

 

[JohnPee]

Thanks for the replies @AccidentalsHappen and @konsolenritter, I had considered the YouTube option and displaying a minimised version of the Studio page on screen. As I am not trying to deliver broadcast quality picture perfect video but functional video in odd locations, probably the YouTube option is the best. I was just trying to minimise having to monitor the stream constantly.