Question / Help Multiple streams starting overnight with my MacBook Pro closed.

[giantgingergames]

So after my stream last night I closed down my MacBook and went upstairs to bed. This morning I was laying around checking out my phone and I see a mobile dashboard notification pop up from Twitch. I go look and it says I am live. Which obviously I was not. I look and my OBS link for mac is showing and my event bar and camera are there but the camera is black and the OBS link is just showing the searching screen because my console wasn't on. I go downstairs and open my MacBook and OBS is running and I have to hit the stop streaming button. I take a look at my page and there were 2 other short videos from the middle of the night as well where I went live, for 26 seconds and 46 seconds. Really confused how / why this happened and what I need to do to make sure something like this doesn't happen again. I have included the last 2 log files from my OBS that have todays date ( even though apparently 3 streams started). Any ideas?

 

[giantgingergames]

Actually it looks like this log may be more helpful than the others. Sorry I am not very seasoned with this

 

[Narcogen]

Don't know what to tell you. OBS has no facility for scheduling or automatically perform streaming, and has to be specially configured/assisted by 3rd party software in order to launch automatically and start streaming unattended.

If you've configured OBS to start streaming when the app opens, then the computer restarting for some reason (power interruption, system update) and then reopening all apps that were open might have caused it.

The multiple attempts appear to be because the initial attempt was ended by a network error, and then OBS attempted to re-connect, which is the default:

22:02:11.353: ==== Streaming Start ===============================================
02:22:11.313: WriteN, RTMP send error 32 (4104 bytes)
02:22:11.313: WriteN, RTMP send error 32 (80 bytes)
02:22:11.313: WriteN, RTMP send error 9 (42 bytes)
02:22:11.313: [rtmp stream: 'simple_stream'] Disconnected from rtmp://live-iad.twitch.tv/app
02:22:11.313: Output 'simple_stream': stopping
02:22:11.313: Output 'simple_stream': Total frames output: 181853 (183055 attempted)
02:22:11.313: Output 'simple_stream': Total drawn frames: 182744 (183170 attempted)
02:22:11.313: Output 'simple_stream': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 426 (0.2%)
02:22:11.313: Output 'simple_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 1202 (0.7%)
02:22:11.314: Output 'simple_stream': Reconnecting in 10 seconds..


So streaming was started at 2 past 10 PM.

At 22 minutes past 2 AM, the network connection starts to fail, and OBS acknowledges it was disconnected from twitch. It prints the performance data to the log, and then waits 10 seconds before attempting to re-start the stream.

Having OBS running will prevent a laptop from sleeping. Did you close the laptop with OBS and OBS Link still running?

 

[giantgingergames]

Hey Narcogen! Thanks for the message. Yeah I totally did just close the laptop which I usually never do but it had been a while since I streamed and I was tired and I just figured it was fine. It didn't happen again after I came down and closed the programs and all that so I think you hit it!