Controlling OBS via RDP audio routing issues

[OBS-Remote]

I have a OBS host computer running Windows 10 Pro with several cameras, audio sources from line input from a audio mixer & from a Logitec webcam. Everything is working fine on-site. I would like to be able to log into the host machine via RDP & be able to remote switch cameras, just like if was sitting in front of the host machine. In order for this to work I also need to hear the audio. The problem is if I configure the RDP client for the remote audio setting to "play on this computer" & "do not record" I can hear the audio from a web browser, or media playback from OBS works fine, however OBS now no longer receives any audio from any of the inputs. Furthermore if I look at the microsoft mixer there are no audio inputs to choose from.

If I configure the RDP client for the remote audio setting to "play on remote computer" & I connect to the OBS host, I can not hear anything from the remote host but now OBS receives audio normally from any of the inputs, but I am unable to monitor the audio remotely.

Any ideas how to redirect only output side of the RDP host without disrupting the audio inputs on the RDP host side?

 

[koala]

Not possible via rdp. There is probably no solution except you just connect to your stream and monitor what is actually produced.

 

[OBS-Remote]

Is there another way to connect remotely other than RDP that would route the audio output properly without affecting the inputs? I take the problem is the way Windows is routing the audio in the mixer section of Windows. My other idea is to physically connect the audio output to VOIP telephone to receive the audio.

 

[koala]

I don't know remote control software that deals audio the way you want. It's not that this might not exist, it's just I wasn't interested in that yet.
You might try one of the remote control software that supports audio from the list from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software#Features
Chrome Remote Desktop looks interesting, since it is free and Google usually builds software that performs and scales well from a personal PC up to enterprise usage.

 

[FerretBomb]

You should be able to use a VNC host program for remote viewing/control. As far as I'm aware, it doesn't utilize a virtual display adapter like RDP, and can be configured to just pass audio back and forth.
It's MUCH less bandwidth-efficient than RDP though, less-feasible over a WAN link, and last I looked was rather poor on the security side of things unless you use something like an SSH session to tunnel a port securely.

Alternately, if you can watch the outside feed and do not need to hear audio, you could just install the obs-websockets plugin, toss a password on it, and remotely control scene switching with something like the t2t2 browser control.

Also, just to comment, if this is for something like a remote-site security system, OBS is NOT an appropriate tool. There are a number of other software packages designed specifically for that, which work a LOT better than jury-rigging OBS. I use ZoneMinder, myself.

 

[OBS-Remote]

This is not for remote site security.
I am trying to be able to remotely control camera switching to live stream a church service without having to be physically at the location. I have a VPN to my AV network, so I can securely connect to the OBS host computer. I have a few PTZ security cameras that I will be connecting them via RTSP to OBS, delaying the audio to sync with the video. So having audio available to me would be helpful to follow the service & for cueing. In the future I may add a small digital mixer XR18 or X32 rack in which I could remotely control the mix for the broadcast. I am currently using Hikvision PTZ IP cameras & looking for a PTZ network controller so that I can control the cameras easier than using the web interface to call up presets. If I can get everything to work reliably I hope to be able to deploy this to other venues.

 

[OBS-Remote]

I was able to get the audio remotely by installing Mumble on the RDP host as a server & installing Mumble on the remote as a client. It works however, since it was designed for voice the quality is somewhat poor for music. Still looking for something that has higher quality stereo which ideally could monitor the output of OBS which could include the sync offset in which I need to include since the IP cameras have about 1400ms delay.

 

[koala]

You can try Teamspeak. Teamspeak has decent codec support for voice as well as music. However, there is always some kind of latency.

 

[OBS-Remote]

Thanks for the lead to Teamspeak, It works well for what I need, I can listen to any of the inputs near real time, however because of the video delay of the IP cameras I hear the sound before the video from the IP cameras. Which is not an issue in my case at least I can hear what is going on. I have not found any way I can monitor the output from OBS, there does not seem to be way from within Teamspeak to choose any output from a program as a input. Furthermore there does not seem to be a way to monitor OBS "post" sync offset in the advanced audio settings locally.
I was able to do live remote controlled 4 camera shoot this morning. My next goal is to add a digital mixer XR18 or X32 so I can control the audio mix remotely.