Operator Message Dock

[whbcstreaming]

Hi everyone,
This may already have been discussed and I just couldn't dig it out, but I want to have a dock in my OBS window that can display messages for the operator running the stream. We use volunteers to run our worship stream and sometimes the service has something in it that I need the operators to adjust for. Right now I have a sheet of paper and I hope they read it at the right time, but it would be really nice if I could pop up a message when a scene starts to remind them to do something. I thought about a custom URL dock and point it to a localhost website that I can run on the host and put messages there, but that would not change when the scene changes. Any ideas? Thanks! Pat

 

[John Hartman]

You may find some useful bits at https://github.com/OldBaldGeek/OBS-old-bald-scripts that you could harvest to meet your needs.

In particular, the cabrinidock2.* files implement a browser dock (we dock it between the mixer controls and the start/stop/settings buttons). It uses Websocket to communicate with OBS. In particular, it handles the CurrentProgramSceneChanged event. We use that event to highlight which camera is in use on the scene, but you could easily change it to show a message in the dock.

We use OBS in Studio mode, in order to avoid having the movement of our PTZ cameras visible on the stream. The script Camera-buddy.lua does a bunch of camera-related stuff, but it also shows a text message on the preview screen in some cases. If you use Studio mode, something like that could be used to tell your operators what you want them to do on the upcoming scene.

 

[whbcstreaming]

Thanks. I'll give this a look. BTW, if you have more than one camera you can look at my "worship automation" lua script. It is used to move the non-visible camera while the other camera is live, so you don't see any camera movements.

 

[whbcstreaming]

You may find some useful bits at https://github.com/OldBaldGeek/OBS-old-bald-scripts that you could harvest to meet your needs.

In particular, the cabrinidock2.* files implement a browser dock (we dock it between the mixer controls and the start/stop/settings buttons). It uses Websocket to communicate with OBS. In particular, it handles the CurrentProgramSceneChanged event. We use that event to highlight which camera is in use on the scene, but you could easily change it to show a message in the dock.

We use OBS in Studio mode, in order to avoid having the movement of our PTZ cameras visible on the stream. The script Camera-buddy.lua does a bunch of camera-related stuff, but it also shows a text message on the preview screen in some cases. If you use Studio mode, something like that could be used to tell your operators what you want them to do on the upcoming scene.

John - I took your idea of using websockets and wrote a python program to display the messages. It polls OBS every second and if the scene changes it displays the message for that scene. Works great! I just uploaded it to the Resource section and made sure to give you a shout-out thank you for the idea.

 

[John Hartman]

I'm glad you had success, and that my tip was useful.