bluetooth monitor headphones lose connection, can't reconnect to OBS

[twindux]

New to OBS on Windows....had plenty of OBS experience on Mac until my main computer died.

I use a set of bluetooth headphones to monitor my stream (church services) But if I accidentally walk out of bluetooth range and break the connection with the laptop, upon returning, the laptop reconnects to the headphones as it should, but OBS does not...even if I go to audio settings and re-choose it. This is on a new Lenovo Legion, if that matters.

The only fix is to quit/relaunch OBS...which is problematic during a stream.

I've tried it with several sets of BT headphones, with the same result.

Is this a known issue? Or am I just not very smart?

 

[Krodster4152]

Instead of re-launching OBS, have you try thjs: click on the gear for your device in the Audio Mixer, go to Advanced properties. then under Audio Monitoring select Monitor Off, then select Monitor and Output again. This has worked for me when I had no audio in OBS. I guess it's a known bug but never fixed by OBS. Or try Settings, Audio tab, Advanced, Monitoring Device, change it then change it back. If these work, far better than shutting down during a livestream. I have learned to leave my headphones on the table before I walk away.

 

[twindux]

Instead of re-launching OBS, have you try thjs: click on the gear for your device in the Audio Mixer, go to Advanced properties. then under Audio Monitoring select Monitor Off, then select Monitor and Output again. This has worked for me when I had no audio in OBS. I guess it's a known bug but never fixed by OBS. Or try Settings, Audio tab, Advanced, Monitoring Device, change it then change it back. If these work, far better than shutting down during a livestream. I have learned to leave my headphones on the table before I walk away.

thanks! Will definitely try that!

 

[ONAWorshipteam]

Instead of re-launching OBS, have you try thjs: click on the gear for your device in the Audio Mixer, go to Advanced properties. then under Audio Monitoring select Monitor Off, then select Monitor and Output again. This has worked for me when I had no audio in OBS. I guess it's a known bug but never fixed by OBS. Or try Settings, Audio tab, Advanced, Monitoring Device, change it then change it back. If these work, far better than shutting down during a livestream. I have learned to leave my headphones on the table before I walk away.

We had the same problem with wired headphones and this worked. Krodster you are the man.

 

[dcmouser]

Yep, this works. I wonder if there would be some way to have OBS detect and auto-fix this problem..

 

[cyclemat]

The Problem is when Bluetooth disconect obs didnt find the device and obs only search the Main Devices only on Start.

 

[dcmouser]

I have a similar problem if I start OBS with headset disconnected, and then reconnected the headset while OBS is running. I have to manually go to advanced audio settings and change source to Monitor Off and then back to its normal state of Monitor On.. I think this needs to be done with all sources with monitoring enabled.

I wrote a script that can be triggered on hotkey and will iterate through all sources on the current scene and toggle on and off monitoring for all sources configured for monitoring. At least this will quickly fix the problem with a quick hotkey:

obsScripts/jrFixAudioMonitorsInScene at main · dcmouser/obsScripts

Various OBS scripts. Contribute to dcmouser/obsScripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

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