cyberfrank101
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hello, i have tried, but i can't find the ptz control dock in obs :-(
The option to show the dock should appear in the Docks menu. What version of OBS are you using, and what version of the plug-in?hello, i have tried, but i can't find the ptz control dock in obs :-(
A related issue is that every camera seems to accept a different ranges of distance speeds, so I need to add some options to make those options configurable. Hopefully that will also give you the speed limit you want. Right now the ramp is simply linear from 0 to full speed over 2s, and does not ramp down. If found that so far I want the camera to stop immediately when the button is released, instead of carrying on past the point. The cameras I have (Sony SRG-120DH) have enough inertia and slack that they still carry on a bit anyway.the speed ramping stuff looks good.. unfortunately i cant test anything for a while, but just wanted to mention that it would be great if the user could set a max speed that you ramp up to.. also some curve options would be good to determine take off speeds.. does it ramp down also ? if not that would be good as well... more than anything the ability to set max speed would be most useful..
So far it works great! The frontend code updates the speed every 100ms which appears to be frequent enough to be responsive. VISCA camera are limited to 32 speeds, which isn’t a lot of resolution, but it seems to be enough. NDI and ONVIF cameras accept floating point speed values, and so may have higher resolution, but I’ve not implemented either of those backends yet. I don’t know the issue the vMix developers may have run into.how does this feature perform so far with cameras ? ive heard vMix developers say that they couldnt add ramp speeds because PTZ motors arent sensitive enough or something ? it would be awesome if PTZ could be made to look less like a security camera and bit more cinematic.. speed ramping is a great start towards that..
nice... if its possible to have control of max speed that would be great... also any chance to make the time to ramp up configurable ? if you have 2 secs now but the user wants slower they could make it 3 or 4 secs ? with this feature i always envisaged it would be a fairly slow ramp up as user starts to move camera and then a ramp down would be a fairly fast, maybe 1 sec or less.. just enough to remove the jerky security camera look that some PTZ have.. if there is any chance to eventually have both up/down with user configurable settings that would be really great..A related issue is that every camera seems to accept a different ranges of distance speeds, so I need to add some options to make those options configurable. Hopefully that will also give you the speed limit you want. Right now the ramp is simply linear from 0 to full speed over 2s, and does not ramp down. If found that so far I want the camera to stop immediately when the button is released, instead of carrying on past the point. The cameras I have (Sony SRG-120DH) have enough inertia and slack that they still carry on a bit anyway.
Theoretically, the code will build against OBS v27, but I haven't spent any time trying to do so. I'd be happy to take patches that fix build problems against v27.Love this plugin, but need some help. But first, I'm not ready to upgrade to obs 28 yet and I am wondering if versions 12 and 13 are backward compatible.
The speed slider code in the versions before v0.13 was very buggy, so I'm not surprised it gave you problems. It didn't work well on my system either.The slider speed control gives me fits; wondering if you can help. Let my try to explain my difficulty.
I usually need a very slow speed. To that end, I move the slider way down. How far to move it is a guestimate, and if I go too far, I don't get any pan/tilt at all. So, I nudge it upward until I get the slow movement I need. But then I don't have any zoom. If I speed it up enough to get a slow zoom, then the pan/tilt movement is too fast.
Independent controls are possible, but I've got a few more back-end architecture changes that I need to make before I can start looking at that. However, please give the new version a try. I find the ramped speed mechanism is far more functional that the manual speed control ever was, and it may provide the control you need without doing per camera configuration.The continual slider adjustments needed render your dock too difficult for both pannning and zooming. Not to mention multiple cameras that respond to the speed adjustments differently.
I need independent speed controls, preferably remembered across obs restarts.
I understand newer versions have replaced the slider with a ramping mechanism. I suppose it's worth a try, but seems like tuning the ramping response for different needs would be a can of worms.
It isn't yet. I do want to add that feature, but I haven't spent any time working on it yet.Hello - using obs-ptz and it's working just fine with our Birddog P400. Thank you for the most useful tool!
Is obs-ptz compatible with obs-websocket, such that a command could be set via obs-websocket and execute PTZ commands? The "Preset" commands would be most useful.
v.13 installs without error but does not load on obs v27. See attached log.Theoretically, the code will build against OBS v27, but I haven't spent any time trying to do so. I'd be happy to take patches that fix build problems against v27.
The speed slider code in the versions before v0.13 was very buggy, so I'm not surprised it gave you problems. It didn't work well on my system either.
Independent controls are possible, but I've got a few more back-end architecture changes that I need to make before I can start looking at that. However, please give the new version a try. I find the ramped speed mechanism is far more functional that the manual speed control ever was, and it may provide the control you need without doing per camera configuration.
Yes, that is expected. The released binaries only works with v28 or later.v.13 installs without error but does not load on obs v27. See attached log.
I am very eager to test this version with speed ramping, unfortunately I don't have the time yet aside from I am still not upgrading to OBS28.glikely updated PTZ Controls with a new update entry:
OBS PTZ Controls v0.13.0
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How did I miss that??? My time is probably better spent migrating to V28, anyway...just hesitating because some plugins are not supported yet.Yes, that is expected. The released binaries only works with v28 or later.
The preset list does need a lot of work. Right now they are fixed to camera presets, but I want to store presets locally on the controller end so that predefined sets can be saved/restored, and so that I can get thumbnails of the scene when the preset is stored.
It would be fairly trivial to add a "preferred scene" setting to the device configuration. That said, the real complextity would be distinguishing between a click to simply change cameras and one to also issue the scene change so that OBS "follows" the change.Ah, I understand now. I’ll experiment with that, but it is a little complex to do well because a camera may be in multiple scenes, and it won’t be clear which one should be selected to preview.
i have updated to 28 and we have some controlling back for our ptz camera. the arrows for up down left right will not work and lost the speed control. how can i fix this so all the controls work in obs? i can email picture of what the controls look like if neededglikely submitted a new resource:
PTZ Controls - Pan Tilt Zoom camera controls for OBS
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I believe the speed control is gone by design: replaced by algorythm that gradually increases the speed the longer you hold the button down. The arrows may be working, only slowly. Hold the button down longer to see if the pan/tilt speed ramps up.i have updated to 28 and we have some controlling back for our ptz camera. the arrows for up down left right will not work and lost the speed control. how can i fix this so all the controls work in obs? i can email picture of what the controls look like if needed