Notifications

[Lesley8000]

It would be nice if OBS devs would put a setting into OBS so we can enable notifications so we know the following:

1. Whether we are recording or paused
2. Whether our microphone is switched on or off

Because currently, there is no way to do this, and when you try to play a game with extra overlays in the screen, the damn thing doesn't even show up... just yesterday I tried putting a WINDOW CAPTURE into my gameplay recording, cropped it to the size i needed, and when I went back on my game, the damn thing disappeared from the windowed projector!

 

[AaronD]

The Advanced Scene Switcher plugin can trigger a System Tray Notification, either in response to something as the entire purpose of a macro, or included with other actions as an indication that those actions happened. Does that you what you need?

Advanced Scene Switcher

This plugin will allow you to automate various tasks using "Macros". Macros consist of a list of conditions under which a list of actions will be performed. Examples and guides can be found in the wiki. Feel free to contribute! If you run...

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Poke around, play with Conditions and Actions, and see what you find. It'll do a LOT!

 

[codeWiz]

There are a couple of related threads; try

OBS Built-in sound indicator when going live or recording?

Indicator examples: 1- Clear sound when pressing Start/Stop. "Optional can be toggled on/off" 2- Red dot icon on screen overlay "Won't be visible on your video or live stream", "Optional can be toggled on/off" I am so surprised this is not a thing in OBS it's super useful, This is the only...

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We need a notification when start recording or saving the playback cache!!!!

When enabling or ending recording and saving the playback cache, it is hoped to add sound effects for reminder or add game overlay notifications.

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Overlay to notify if it's recording or streaming for single monitor users.

Recently happened with me. I thought i was recording and later I found out i just lost a 2hr's worth of footage. It would have been helpful if there was a overlay option to notify me if i was recording or streaming (just like nvidia does). I use single monitor, should that overlay would have...

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Record/Replay Notifications and/or More Event Hooks

I routinely use OBS to record full-screen applications, and use a hotkey combo to start/stop recording, and to save instant replays. From what I understand, OBS does not provide any out-of-the-box notifications to that effect, meaning that the user is effectively blind as to whether or not...

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Simple recording/stream indicator

I'm proposing a simple recording/stream indicator for full-screen games while using OBS. A simple red dot at the bottom corner for recording or blue dot for streaming would do the trick. I haven't seen any threads on this since 2014, so might as well bring it up now :$

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Recording locally on a single screen, how to verify recording active?

I don't stream much but I record locally most of my gameplay. I only have a single monitor and all too often I'll find after a gameplay session the recording failed, either been recording black screen (audio fine), or started out OK but maybe an in game video settings change or a loading screen...

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Suggestion - Add a option to enable a record notification overlay in OBS Studio

Add a notification overlay in OBS Studio that lets the user know when they are recording/not recording in-game. More or less, how Dxtory and Shadowplay shows the notification when you are recording/not recording. At the moment, the only way to see if you are recording or not, is if you go to...

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Live notifcation

Can we please get a visual notification for when OBS goes live? i just went live for 2 hrs without even knowing it, and put my entire channel at risk bc i didnt know

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There is no indication that OBS Multiplatform is recording or streaming in Windows 10

http://i.imgur.com/0hJ3a1V.png I'm hoping that this can be fixed in the future with an update or a plugin. Right now when pressing either button to start streaming or recording, there is no indication that OBS has started doing either. It hasn't become a problem for myself yet, but I'm hoping...

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