Okay, that was where I thought I was supposed to be looking, but I don't find anything about PTZ controls in either Docks or Tools.
Which leads me to think there must be something wrong.
Which leads me to think there must be something wrong.
glikely
Member
Hmmm. That means the plugin didn't load. Can you provide your OBS log file?
glikely
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This is a bug. I've not been testing the Debian packages, so I hadn't caught that I broke it when switching to git commit ids. I'm working on a fix and will get it into the v0.13.1 release
glikely
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This is unusual. I've been unable to reproduce this problem. On an Intel Mac machine without OBS I just did a clean install of both OBS and obs-ptz and it ran without issue. Can you try a fresh install of both OBS and the plugin? If that doesn't solve the problem then please file an issue on https://github.com/glikely/obs-ptz/issues
glikely
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Please try v0.13.1-rc3 and report back if it works for you. I'm unable to test it as I don't have an x86 Linux box with me at the moment.
glikely
Member
Please try v0.13.1-rc4. There is a bug in v0.13.0 that causes this problem if the controller cannot receive replies from the camera, which is often the case with RS-422 configurations.
glikely
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Hi everyone. Thank you for your patience with the v0.13.0 release. I made some big changes on the back end which caused regressions and I'm hoping to have them addressed in v0.13.1. On that note, I've just tagged what I hope to be the last release candidate for v0.13.1. You can find it here. Please test and report back. If all looks good then I'll tag the full release this weekend.
Bugs fixed:
- visca: single ended connections now work again without ~1s lag
- visca: pan/tilt at lowest speed should work again on all cameras
- visca: movement speeds clamped to the valid range
- pelco: Fix uncontrolled zoom
- pelco: added focus control
- camera drift on startup fixed
- Debian package works again
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Bugs fixed:
- visca: single ended connections now work again without ~1s lag
- visca: pan/tilt at lowest speed should work again on all cameras
- visca: movement speeds clamped to the valid range
- pelco: Fix uncontrolled zoom
- pelco: added focus control
- camera drift on startup fixed
- Debian package works again
Release obs-ptz v0.13.1-rc5 · glikely/obs-ptz
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Thanks for the reply. I see that you uploaded a couple newer RCs. I tried rc5. It appeared to install without error. But I don't find an obs-ptz directory under ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins. Also I find nothing PTZ related under the Docks or Tools pulldowns. Am I looking in the wrong place?Please try v0.13.1-rc3 and report back if it works for you. I'm unable to test it as I don't have an x86 Linux box with me at the moment.
V2: OOPs! I looked at the obs log file and found that I was missing a qt6 file. So I installed the missing dependency, uninstalled rc5, then re-installed it. Now I find PTZ Controls under Docks, and PTZ Devices under Tools. But still no new directory under ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins, so obs-ptz must install elsewhere. At the moment I'm using my home PC with no PTZ camera. I can't wait to try it on the "real" system at church. Thanks tons! ..DonA
I was getting ready to file a ticket for my HCSTVCON HC-HD35S saying that illegal pan and tilt speeds were causing it to misbehave in interesting ways, when I noticed you note about v0.13.1. I installed rc5 and it seems to be working well for me (at least it has addressed the problems I was seeing). Here is my system info to round out the picture:
Thanks for the update!
Thanks for the update!
glikely
Member
Glad to hear the new version is working well. Out of curiosity, what behaviour did you see with the older version?
glikely
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glikely updated PTZ Controls with a new update entry:
OBS PTZ Controls v0.13.1 - Bug fix release
Read the rest of this update entry...
OBS PTZ Controls v0.13.1 - Bug fix release
Read the rest of this update entry...
A few things. Using VISCA serial (RS-232) for the camera control, the UP, LEFT, RIGHT, DOWN arrows did nothing and I was seeing errors in the logs. I tracked that to the camera not liking '7f' in the unused pan or tilt (respectively) speed fields of the pan / tilt commands. The UP/LEFT, DOWN/RIGHT, etc. buttons would make the camera run continuously to its limits without ever stopping. I tracked that to the camera not liking '7f:7f' in the pan and tilt speed fields of the STOP command. HOME worked perfectly as did the zoom operations. I went so far as to grab a copy of the code in order to maybe make a PR to fix it before I noticed your update.
It turns out, my MacBook is too old to be able to build OBS, so I would not have been able to test a PR on my MacBook. I could have tested it on a Linux system, and, if I do decide I want to try to contribute to this project, it will probably be from a Linux system, but it was good in this case that I didn't have to go there.
Thanks for the very thorough logging. It made it very easy to figure out what was going on with my camera.
I am attaching my logs and my log analysis for your enjoyment.
glikely
Member
Awesome work on the analysis. Thanks! Those bugs are due to a number of off-by-one mistakes that I made which set the magnitude incorrectly. The cameras I have were happy enough to still accept those packets, so I didn't notice until I got bug reports.
BTW, for future investigation, I've added a visca camera emulator script in the scripts/ subdirectory which helps for tracking down protocol problems. You may find it useful.
I would really appreciate the help! I've got limited time to work on this project and a long list of todos and issues that need some love. You can try pinging me, 'glikely' on the OBS Discord server if you want to talk a bit about what is needed. If I'm around and have time to talk I'll respond.
I find Linux is an easier environment to work from anyway. My primary development machine is an M2 Mac, but I switch back and forth between native Mac and a Linux VM. Very little of the code is platform specific so it often doesn't matter which platform you develop on.
TroniStark
New Member
Hey man! I am unable to configure my NEOID PTZ USB camera without a network cable. I only use the camera via USB but in OBS I don't know how to configure it. Can you tell me if it is possible to configure without a network cable? If so, would you tell me how?
At the moment (and for the foreseeable future) my paying job has me pretty wrung out intellectually at the end of the day, but, if I get my teeth into something I want or need with obs-ptz, I will definitely pass the result on to you. When it came to this bug, I figured I could probably pop in and find the problem without too much trouble, and the system I am setting up needs to get done, so I started to jump in. Could easily happen again, now that I have the code. It looked like it was well structured for platform independence, so I can probably work from my Linux system, which is even older than my Mac, but should work for this kind of stuff.
Thanks for providing this thing. It really makes it nice to have ptz built into OBS.
glikely
Member
Sorry, control over USB (UVC cameras) is not supported yet. I’d like to add it, but haven’t had time, and I don’t have any hardware to test with.