Any way to create a return signal when live?

CMGSK

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First of all, it might be a wrong term, but i cant figure out how this is called in english. What i'm referring to is the typical television signal that, after going from all cameras to control (PCR), control gives a signal back to the cameraman monitor in order to let him see what's live at that moment, so he can change the shot freely in absence of a working tally light.

We're using OBS to make live sport events and i'm in charge of either control or in-camera close shots, and with the latter, i really miss a monitor to see whether the guy from control is live in my camera or not. He's usually an inexperienced guy that tends to keep my shot live for way too long, so in order to avoid mistakes i'd love to see what's live. Is there any way to output a live signal into a monitor or an old smartphone or something like that at the same time we're live on Youtube? If so, how's it done? Thank you in advance!!!
 
OBS isn't really meant for this, so there is no tally-feedback functionality like you're requesting; the only advice I could offer would be to stick a cheap phone or tablet to the camera and set it up to show the livestream. There will of course be some transmission/replication/playback delay, which can be cut down by streaming to an internal nginx-rtmp server that the phone could grab the stream from prior to it going out to Youtube, but that carries its own technical challenges.
 
If you install the NDI plugin and active NDI programm on OBS then you can see the output of the stream with a NDI monitor on IOS/Android
 
Some people use an hdmi-splitter at the multiview output to have a second monitor for the cameraman to look at.

Other thing is to have a personal talkback system between director (control op) and camera op(s). For instance cheap PMR (public mobile radio) with earsets.
 
Check out NDI 5. I've been using the NDI Bridge to stream lossless, it works great, latency is less than 30ms & supports Tally Lights.


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