PTZ Controls v0.15.4

[Quintin.Gieser]

glikely updated PTZ Controls with a new update entry:

OBS PTZ Controls v0.13.0



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Hi there. New to this forum, and PTZ cameras. Our church just bought a Sony SRG-X400 camera, and we have this plugin working in OBS. I am wondering about the speed control, because if you hold it down, I find that the camera very quickly gets out of control. lol.

I do like the idea of holding down a key to go at one speed, but find that <SHIFT> - PAN is too slow, and <CTRL> - PAN is way too fast...so some other keys with alternate speeds, or a user programable section to set speeds for certain keys would be helpful. We would like to be able to pan l/r over the worship band, or when there is child dedication or some such going on, but right now with those controls, I think it will be difficult. We have yet to set it up in our sanctuary, just testing in a lab environment for now, so maybe once we have the camera in position (which is much further from our subject than my lab), things will be different.

I also find that the presets are very jerky to move between them. For the most part, we will have a different camera angle (a static WA camera) and do our PTZ movements off stream, so not a terribly big deal.

Thanks so much for your hard work in this, it is very much appreciated!

Quintin

 

[jjameska]

Are you asking about turning on some kind of motion tracking feature built into some PTZ cameras? Or having a feature in the plug-in itself to track an object?

For the former, I don’t have anything in the plug-in currently, but if you can point me at a specific camera that you want supported then I can take a look.

For the latter, take a look at the face tracker plug-in by @norihiro . It works with this plug-in to control a camera. You can find it here:

Face Tracker

norihiro submitted a new resource: Face Tracker - face detection, face tracking This plugin provide a filter for face detection and face tracking for mainly a speaking person. This plugin employs a library called dlib to detect a face and track it. The frame of the source is periodically...

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Hi glikely!

Thanks for answering. I have a Minrray UV510A-ST PTZ camera and I would like to use it on an event as its following the person on the stage. The person is speaking and walking sometimes. Thats what I need for.
Many thanks for helping me and sorry of my english :)

 

[Quintin.Gieser]

Hi there. New to this forum, and PTZ cameras. Our church just bought a Sony SRG-X400 camera, and we have this plugin working in OBS. I am wondering about the speed control, because if you hold it down, I find that the camera very quickly gets out of control. lol.

Well, I should have looked first...realized that after installing the plugin, there was a newer version...the 13.1 version works much smoother! Will continue to play with it, and advise if we have any issues. Thanks again for all your hard work on this!

Quintin
Steinbach Evangelical Fellowship Church

 

[TroniStark]

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.

How strange, because I was able to configure it via USB connection and it works! Not so well on the gamepad but in the presets it works fine.

 

[glikely]

How strange, because I was able to configure it via USB connection and it works! Not so well on the gamepad but in the presets it works fine.

That sounds like the camera is providing a virtual serial port over USB, or network connection. If so, then yes that is supported by the PTZ controls. How did you set it up in the PTZ configuration?

The USB cameras that I've seen only support the UVC protocol which is different from the PELCO and VISCA protocols that this plugin supports.

 

[glikely]

Well, I should have looked first...realized that after installing the plugin, there was a newer version...the 13.1 version works much smoother! Will continue to play with it, and advise if we have any issues. Thanks again for all your hard work on this!

Quintin
Steinbach Evangelical Fellowship Church

Awesome! I did fix a bunch of protocol problems in the 0.13.1 release, so I'm glad to hear it is working better for you. I am planning to add some control over the minimum and maximum speed which should help even more, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

 

[glikely]

Hi glikely!

Thanks for answering. I have a Minrray UV510A-ST PTZ camera and I would like to use it on an event as its following the person on the stage. The person is speaking and walking sometimes. Thats what I need for.
Many thanks for helping me and sorry of my english :)

The Minrray UV510A-ST doesn't have any object tracking built into it, but the face tracking plugin I mentioned earlier should work.

 

[jjameska]

The Minrray UV510A-ST doesn't have any object tracking built into it, but the face tracking plugin I mentioned earlier should work.

Thanks for answering, so do you mean that face tracking plugin could turn tha direction of PTZ? Or just zoom and crop it?

 

[glikely]

Thanks for answering, so do you mean that face tracking plugin could turn tha direction of PTZ? Or just zoom and crop it?

It will control the pan, tilt and zoom of the camera. Just be aware that it uses a lot of compute power on the PC, so you need a modern machine.

 

[jjameska]

It will control the pan, tilt and zoom of the camera. Just be aware that it uses a lot of compute power on the PC, so you need a modern machine.

Thank You, its sounds good, I will try it!

 

[dqm]

Due to issues with thg speed control slider in V10, I finally "bit the bullet" and upgraded to OBS 28 so that I could try out the new speed ramping feature.

The bad news: the speed ramping feature of V13 is fine for nudging the camera, but larger movements are HORRIBLE. If I hold down the button long enough to move the camera more than a few degrees, it's moving too fast to reliably stop where I want it. So, then it I have to nudge it to the right place. Or, I can avoid under/over rotating my target by a series of quick presses, one-after-the-next. Either way, the result is an unacceptably jerky video. A max speed setting may solve the issue, but my gut tells me it will be very challenging to satisfy a diversity of speed control needs without the explicit (slider?) control exposed in the UI.

The good news: I gave V12 a shot and all of the issues I was having with V10 are resolved. Pan, Tilt, and Zoom all work perfectly with the slider at its slowest position and the speed setting seems to persist across OBS restarts. My concern is that moving forward, I'm now stuck at V12 with no chance of experiencing future enhancements.

 

[glikely]

Due to issues with thg speed control slider in V10, I finally "bit the bullet" and upgraded to OBS 28 so that I could try out the new speed ramping feature.

The bad news: the speed ramping feature of V13 is fine for nudging the camera, but larger movements are HORRIBLE. If I hold down the button long enough to move the camera more than a few degrees, it's moving too fast to reliably stop where I want it. So, then it I have to nudge it to the right place. Or, I can avoid under/over rotating my target by a series of quick presses, one-after-the-next. Either way, the result is an unacceptably jerky video. A max speed setting may solve the issue, but my gut tells me it will be very challenging to satisfy a diversity of speed control needs without the explicit (slider?) control exposed in the UI.

The good news: I gave V12 a shot and all of the issues I was having with V10 are resolved. Pan, Tilt, and Zoom all work perfectly with the slider at its slowest position and the speed setting seems to persist across OBS restarts. My concern is that moving forward, I'm now stuck at V12 with no chance of experiencing future enhancements.

Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated!

Please give v0.14.0-pre2 a try and let me know if that fixes things. This test version has new sliders in the configuration dialog that limits the maximum pan/tilt/zoom/focus speeds. That may solve your problem.

I promise you you will not get stuck on v0.12! These problems will get fixed

 

[dqm]

I will give v0.14.0 a try when time permits. I greatly appreciate your diligence: both responding on this forum and improving your PTZ controller.

 

[glikely]

PTZ People! I've been experimenting with the control scheme, and I've got an experimental build that I'd like feedback on. Please try out v0.14.0-test1 and try out the new 'touch' control approach. As an alternative to separate buttons, this version adds a new widget where the speed of the camera move is based on where in the widget you click. Clicks near centre move slow, near outside edge move fast. Click and drag to change speed while moving.

To try it out, install v0.14.0-test1 and click the interact icon in the toolbar as highlighted in attached screenshot. The touch widget will replace the pan/tilt buttons when the toolbar button is clicked.

Release obs-ptz v0.14.0-test1 · glikely/obs-ptz

This is a test release that adds an experimental 'touch' widget for controlling the camera. Please test and provide feedback on the OBS forum. Checksums obs-ptz-0.14.0-test1-linux-x86_64.deb: 5d7aa...

github.com

 

[Paul74]

Hi there. New to this forum, and PTZ cameras. Our church just bought a Sony SRG-X400 camera, and we have this plugin working in OBS. I am wondering about the speed control, because if you hold it down, I find that the camera very quickly gets out of control. lol.

I do like the idea of holding down a key to go at one speed, but find that <SHIFT> - PAN is too slow, and <CTRL> - PAN is way too fast...so some other keys with alternate speeds, or a user programable section to set speeds for certain keys would be helpful. We would like to be able to pan l/r over the worship band, or when there is child dedication or some such going on, but right now with those controls, I think it will be difficult. We have yet to set it up in our sanctuary, just testing in a lab environment for now, so maybe once we have the camera in position (which is much further from our subject than my lab), things will be different.

I also find that the presets are very jerky to move between them. For the most part, we will have a different camera angle (a static WA camera) and do our PTZ movements off stream, so not a terribly big deal.

Thanks so much for your hard work in this, it is very much appreciated!

Quintin

Hi Quintin. I'm planning to buy the same Sony X400 cam for our organization, so ptz controls do work with it? What ptz protocol are you using?

 

[johnny_bravo]

we have a collection of Hikvision IP camera' s in our church. 2 PTZ versions. Has any one here experience with them and PTZ controls ? The nasty thing is a username and password is required to connect to them, and i did not find this yet in pts controls..... thnx!

 

[Quintin.Gieser]

Hi Quintin. I'm planning to buy the same Sony X400 cam for our organization, so ptz controls do work with it? What ptz protocol are you using?

Hi Paul. Yes, the controls work quite well. Right now testing .14.0-test1, and it works quite well. Has a touch control in this latest test release, as well as being able to set max speeds for ptz as well. We are using VISCA over UDP for controlling the camera.

Right now this camera is not in production, but in all of our testing, I am quite happy with how it is performing, and how PTZ controls work with it. Very grateful to Grant for all of his hard work on this!

 

[Quintin.Gieser]

PTZ People! I've been experimenting with the control scheme, and I've got an experimental build that I'd like feedback on. Please try out v0.14.0-test1 and try out the new 'touch' control approach. As an alternative to separate buttons, this version adds a new widget where the speed of the camera move is based on where in the widget you click. Clicks near centre move slow, near outside edge move fast. Click and drag to change speed while moving.

To try it out, install v0.14.0-test1 and click the interact icon in the toolbar as highlighted in attached screenshot. The touch widget will replace the pan/tilt buttons when the toolbar button is clicked.

Release obs-ptz v0.14.0-test1 · glikely/obs-ptz

This is a test release that adds an experimental 'touch' widget for controlling the camera. Please test and provide feedback on the OBS forum. Checksums obs-ptz-0.14.0-test1-linux-x86_64.deb: 5d7aa...

github.com

Hi Grant! Just tried this out, and at first glance, it works VERY well! It will take a bit of getting used to where the sweet spot is for the right speed, but I think that will come eventually. So far I have no complaints or anything to suggest to make it better...

Thanks again for your hard work on this!

Q

 

[glikely]

we have a collection of Hikvision IP camera' s in our church. 2 PTZ versions. Has any one here experience with them and PTZ controls ? The nasty thing is a username and password is required to connect to them, and i did not find this yet in pts controls..... thnx!

Most likely these cameras are controlled via the ONVIF protocol which the plug-in doesn’t support yet. There is some prototype code in the tree, but it isn’t ready to enable yet.

 

[glikely]

glikely updated PTZ Controls with a new update entry:

OBS PTZ Controls v0.14.0

I think it is time to just make another release. Some of the things in here aren't necessarily done. The new control widget is merged, but it still needs a lot of work. Releasing now gives you all the chance to test it out and let me know how it is working for you. However the older button based interface remains so you aren't required to use the new scheme.

Many of the changes in this release are under the hood and not visible to the user. VISCA users in particular should see compatibility...

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