Hotkey to switch and transition at the same time?

[AsherN]

Running OBS 27.2.4.

I use OBS to stream services at my house of worship. I run in studio mode to allow to queue the next camera angle and I have the spacebar configured as a transition hotkey. The works really well.

We have added a "technical difficulty" scene, mostly to cut to if we want to not show what is happening (medical emergency, security issue, etc).

I want to be able to easily broadcast that scene. Is there a way to program a hot key to send a scene directly to the stream without stopping at Preview first? As in, I'm streaming one podium, the other podium is queued in Preview. Something happens, I want to hit the "e" key and send the "tech difficulty" scene straight to "Program".

Thanks

 

[konsolenritter]

That seems not possible in the first manner,
but i've found a trick that should work for you.

Assume A and B two scenes of your collection that show live video feed from cameras. And a scene C that shows a slide projection (just to give an example).
What you want is to protect scenes A and B with such a "emergency" hotkey showing a neutral slide or something, right?

Here is my solution: Please build another one scene D (i call it "no-avail" or "emerg-slide"). Fill it with the "emergency content", for instance an "We have difficulties and will return in a moment..." slide. Then go to the hotkey-section of the obs settings and assign your wished hotkey to that slide (both, the "show" and "hide" function for that element in that scene!).

Then take every scene like A and B and there insert the scene D as the first source element on top of all others (especially the camera feeds).

Now work with your usual scenes A, B, C like normal. Directly switching to D never needed. Whatever of these scenes is currently active, press your hotkey. It will alternately switch on and off your emergency slide on top of all live cam feeds, leaving your normal procedure and workflow of scene switches and transitions intact.

 

[AsherN]

Thanks. I managed to to it with a macro in advanced Scene Switcher. Your method would work, but i also need to kill the audio. A new scene accomplishes that.