PTZ Controls v0.15.4

Marty Smith · Jul 14, 2021

Uh oh... I may be in over my head. I'm not an experienced GitHub user. If I'm reading the install instructions correctly, it looks like I need to build OBS as well as build the latest code for the PTZ addin? Is there an option for a noob like me where I do something like: "download these three files and put them in your OBS install's 'addin' folder?"

toplachi · Jul 14, 2021

Marty Smith said:
Uh oh... I may be in over my head. I'm not an experienced GitHub user. If I'm reading the install instructions correctly, it looks like I need to build OBS as well as build the latest code for the PTZ addin? Is there an option for a noob like me where I do something like: "download these three files and put them in your OBS install's 'addin' folder?"

Just download
obs-ptz-v0.5.0-win64.zip
and extract it to C:\Program Files\obs-studio\obs-plugins\64bit (if you are using the default obs install location)

glikely · Jul 14, 2021

Marty Smith said:
Uh oh... I may be in over my head. I'm not an experienced GitHub user. If I'm reading the install instructions correctly, it looks like I need to build OBS as well as build the latest code for the PTZ addin? Is there an option for a noob like me where I do something like: "download these three files and put them in your OBS install's 'addin' folder?"

It is still early days for this plugin. I do intend to add an installer and do binary releases for all platforms, it is just going to take a while to get to something that is feature complete. As @toplachi says, there is a zip file for win64 that can be unzipped into your plugins folder which should get you started.

glikely · Jul 14, 2021

glikely said:
It is still early days for this plugin. I do intend to add an installer and do binary releases for all platforms, it is just going to take a while to get to something that is feature complete. As @toplachi says, there is a zip file for win64 that can be unzipped into your plugins folder which should get you started.

BTW, for anyone with windows installer experience, I would very much appreciate help getting the plugin packaged as an msi or installer .exe

Martyats · Jul 14, 2021

toplachi said:
Just download
obs-ptz-v0.5.0-win64.zip
and extract it to C:\Program Files\obs-studio\obs-plugins\64bit (if you are using the default obs install location)

I did that and relaunched OBS. Where should I see these controls? I've looked in Tools, View, View/Docks, and Settings.
I'm looking forward to trying this!

glikely · Jul 14, 2021

Martyats said:
I did that and relaunched OBS. Where should I see these controls? I've looked in Tools, View, View/Docks, and Settings.
I'm looking forward to trying this!

An option to add the PTZ control dock should be found under the View menu

glikely · Jul 15, 2021

glikely said:
An option to add the PTZ control dock should be found under the View menu

If you don't see the option there, look in the OBS log file (Help->Log Files->View Current Log) to see if the plugin has loaded. If it has you'll see something like this in there:

Code:

09:39:29.758: [obs-ndi] NDI library initialized successfully (NDI SDK WIN64 15:59:50 Feb  4 2020 4.1.6.0)
09:39:29.823: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'ptz-controls.dll'
09:39:29.823: PTZ Controls plugin v0.5.0
09:39:29.903: ViscaUART::get_interface():518: Looking for UART object COM5
09:39:29.903: ViscaUART::get_interface():521: Creating new VISCA object COM5
09:39:29.903: VISCA Unable to open UART COM5
09:39:29.903: ViscaUART::get_interface():518: Looking for UART object COM5
09:39:29.903: ViscaUDPSocket::get_interface():638: Looking for Visca UDP Socket object 52381
09:39:29.903: ViscaUDPSocket::get_interface():641: Creating new VISCA object 52381
09:39:29.912: ViscaUDPSocket::send():623: VISCA UDP --> 02:00:00:01:00:00:00:00:01
09:39:29.913: ViscaUDPSocket::send():623: VISCA UDP --> 01:00:00:05:00:00:00:01:81:01:00:01:ff
09:39:29.913: ViscaUDPSocket::send():623: VISCA UDP --> 01:10:00:05:00:00:00:02:81:09:00:02:ff

Martyats · Jul 15, 2021

glikely said:

If you don't see the option there, look in the OBS log file (Help->Log Files->View Current Log) to see if the plugin has loaded. If it has you'll see something like this in there:

Code:

09:39:29.758: [obs-ndi] NDI library initialized successfully (NDI SDK WIN64 15:59:50 Feb  4 2020 4.1.6.0)
09:39:29.823: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'ptz-controls.dll'
09:39:29.823: PTZ Controls plugin v0.5.0
09:39:29.903: ViscaUART::get_interface():518: Looking for UART object COM5
09:39:29.903: ViscaUART::get_interface():521: Creating new VISCA object COM5
09:39:29.903: VISCA Unable to open UART COM5
09:39:29.903: ViscaUART::get_interface():518: Looking for UART object COM5
09:39:29.903: ViscaUDPSocket::get_interface():638: Looking for Visca UDP Socket object 52381
09:39:29.903: ViscaUDPSocket::get_interface():641: Creating new VISCA object 52381
09:39:29.912: ViscaUDPSocket::send():623: VISCA UDP --> 02:00:00:01:00:00:00:00:01
09:39:29.913: ViscaUDPSocket::send():623: VISCA UDP --> 01:00:00:05:00:00:00:01:81:01:00:01:ff
09:39:29.913: ViscaUDPSocket::send():623: VISCA UDP --> 01:10:00:05:00:00:00:02:81:09:00:02:ff

I could find no mention of /PTZ controld is the current log.
I copied the 4 files from the Zip file into the 64bit folder. Did I miss something?

glikely · Jul 15, 2021

Martyats said:
I could find no mention of /PTZ controld is the current log.
I copied the 4 files from the Zip file into the 64bit folder. Did I miss something?

Please attach your full log file. Or even better, file an issue in GitHub and attach your full log file there.

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Martyats · Jul 15, 2021

16:33:47.505: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz
16:33:47.505: CPU Speed: 2712MHz
16:33:47.505: Physical Cores: 2, Logical Cores: 4
16:33:47.505: Physical Memory: 8096MB Total, 4039MB Free
16:33:47.505: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 19042 (release: 2009; revision: 1083; 64-bit)
16:33:47.505: Running as administrator: false
16:33:47.505: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
16:33:47.506: Windows 10 Gaming Features:
16:33:47.506: Game Bar: Off
16:33:47.506: Game DVR: Off
16:33:47.506: Game DVR Background Recording: Off
16:33:47.509: Sec. Software Status:
16:33:47.514: Webroot SecureAnywhere: enabled (AV)
16:33:47.514: Microsoft Defender Antivirus: disabled (AV)
16:33:47.514: Windows Firewall: enabled (FW)
16:33:47.515: Current Date/Time: 2021-07-15, 16:33:47
16:33:47.515: Browser Hardware Acceleration: true
16:33:47.515: Portable mode: false
16:33:47.915: OBS 27.0.1 (64-bit, windows)
16:33:47.915: ---------------------------------
16:33:47.945: ---------------------------------
16:33:47.945: audio settings reset:
16:33:47.945: samples per sec: 48000
16:33:47.945: speakers: 2
16:33:47.946: ---------------------------------
16:33:47.946: Initializing D3D11...
16:33:47.946: Available Video Adapters:
16:33:47.949: Adapter 0: Intel(R) HD Graphics 620
16:33:47.949: Dedicated VRAM: 134217728
16:33:47.949: Shared VRAM: 4244981760
16:33:47.949: PCI ID: 8086:5916
16:33:47.950: Driver Version: 23.20.16.4973
16:33:47.950: output 0: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true, refresh=60, name=
16:33:47.953: Loading up D3D11 on adapter Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 (0)
16:33:47.973: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: b000
16:33:47.973: DXGI increase maximum frame latency success
16:33:48.497: ---------------------------------
16:33:48.497: video settings reset:
16:33:48.497: base resolution: 1920x1080
16:33:48.497: output resolution: 1920x1080
16:33:48.497: downscale filter: Bicubic
16:33:48.497: fps: 30/1
16:33:48.497: format: NV12
16:33:48.497: YUV mode: 709/Partial
16:33:48.497: NV12 texture support not available
16:33:48.498: Audio monitoring device:
16:33:48.498: name: Speakers (CEntrance MicPort Pro)
16:33:48.498: id: {0.0.0.00000000}.{274ab247-0b7e-4c70-bb82-05efc92b7e8e}
16:33:48.502: ---------------------------------
16:33:48.503: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/chrome_elf.dll', not an OBS plugin
16:33:48.505: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/concrt140.dll', not an OBS plugin
16:33:48.509: [CoreAudio encoder]: CoreAudio AAC encoder not installed on the system or couldn't be loaded
16:33:48.510: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-captions.dll'
16:33:48.512: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-ouput-ui.dll'
16:33:48.978: [AMF] Unable to load 'amfrt64.dll', error code 126.
16:33:48.982: [AMF] AMF Test failed due to one or more errors.
16:33:48.982: Failed to initialize module 'enc-amf.dll'
16:33:48.997: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libcef.dll', not an OBS plugin
16:33:49.008: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libEGL.dll', not an OBS plugin
16:33:49.009: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libGLESv2.dll', not an OBS plugin
16:33:49.015: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/msvcp140.dll', not an OBS plugin
16:33:49.018: [obs-browser]: Version 2.14.3
16:33:49.018: [obs-browser]: CEF Version 75.1.16+g16a67c4+chromium-75.0.3770.100
16:33:49.024: [noise suppress: Nvidia RTX denoiser disabled, redistributable not found]
16:33:49.026: [obs-ndi] hello ! (version 4.9.0)
16:33:49.026: [obs-ndi] Trying 'C:\Program Files\NewTek\NDI 4 Runtime\v4'
16:33:49.027: [obs-ndi] Found NDI library at 'C:/Program Files/NewTek/NDI 4 Runtime/v4/Processing.NDI.Lib.x64.dll'
16:33:49.032: [obs-ndi] NDI runtime loaded successfully
16:33:49.044: [obs-ndi] NDI library initialized successfully (NDI SDK WIN64 06:20:19 Apr 1 2020 4.5.1.0)
16:33:49.087: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/Qt5Network.dll', not an OBS plugin
16:33:49.089: Module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/Qt5Network.dll' not loaded
16:33:49.093: [Source Dock] loaded version 0.1.1
16:33:49.095: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'StreamDeckPlugin.dll'
16:33:49.106: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/ucrtbase.dll', not an OBS plugin
16:33:49.107: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/vccorlib140.dll', not an OBS plugin
16:33:49.109: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/vcruntime140.dll', not an OBS plugin
16:33:49.114: VLC found, VLC video source enabled
16:33:49.124: A DeckLink iterator could not be created. The DeckLink drivers may not be installed
16:33:49.126: No blackmagic support
16:33:49.139: ---------------------------------
16:33:49.139: Loaded Modules:
16:33:49.139: win-wasapi.dll
16:33:49.139: win-mf.dll
16:33:49.139: win-dshow.dll
16:33:49.139: win-decklink.dll
16:33:49.139: win-capture.dll
16:33:49.139: vlc-video.dll
16:33:49.139: text-freetype2.dll
16:33:49.139: StreamDeckPlugin.dll
16:33:49.139: source-dock.dll
16:33:49.139: rtmp-services.dll
16:33:49.139: obs-x264.dll
16:33:49.139: obs-vst.dll
16:33:49.139: obs-transitions.dll
16:33:49.139: obs-text.dll
16:33:49.139: obs-qsv11.dll
16:33:49.139: obs-outputs.dll
16:33:49.139: obs-ndi.dll
16:33:49.139: obs-filters.dll
16:33:49.139: obs-ffmpeg.dll
16:33:49.139: obs-browser.dll
16:33:49.139: image-source.dll
16:33:49.139: frontend-tools.dll
16:33:49.139: enc-amf.dll
16:33:49.139: decklink-ouput-ui.dll
16:33:49.139: decklink-captions.dll
16:33:49.139: coreaudio-encoder.dll
16:33:49.139: ---------------------------------
16:33:49.140: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
16:33:49.179: Switched to Preview/Program mode
16:33:49.179: ------------------------------------------------
16:33:49.187: All scene data cleared
16:33:49.187: ------------------------------------------------
16:33:49.238: [WASAPISource::WASAPISource] Device '{0.0.0.00000000}.{800788e8-e5ba-4681-9b45-3f8da1978cbf}' not found. Waiting for device
16:33:49.239: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Desktop Audio'
16:33:49.240: [WASAPISource::WASAPISource] Device '{0.0.1.00000000}.{8464afd4-7a46-498f-b0ab-02d7672486cc}' not found. Waiting for device
16:33:49.240: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux'
16:33:49.240: - filter: 'Compressor' (compressor_filter)
16:33:49.240: - filter: 'Expander' (expander_filter)
16:33:49.249: [obs-ndi] started A/V threads for source 'HP-LAPTOP (AMD Radeon HD 6470M 1)'
16:33:49.251: [obs-ndi] A/V thread for 'NDI™ Source' started
16:33:49.295: Switched to scene 'Cam 2 PTZ'
16:33:49.353: ------------------------------------------------
16:33:49.353: Loaded scenes:
16:33:49.353: - scene 'Cam 1 Fixed':
16:33:49.353: - source: 'Fixed Cam' (dshow_input)
16:33:49.353: - scene 'Cam 2 PTZ':
16:33:49.353: - source: 'PTZ Cam' (dshow_input)
16:33:49.353: - scene 'NDI Scene':
16:33:49.353: - source: 'NDI™ Source' (ndi_source)
16:33:49.353: ------------------------------------------------
16:33:49.458: Fixed Cam: data.GetDevice failed
16:33:49.458: Fixed Cam: Video configuration failed
16:33:49.492: ---------------------------------
16:33:49.492: [DShow Device: 'PTZ Cam'] settings updated:
16:33:49.492: video device: MEI CV610-U3-V2
16:33:49.492: video path: \\?\usb#vid_2cb3&pid_0201&mi_00#7&e990382&0&0000#{65e8773d-8f56-11d0-a3b9-00a0c9223196}\global
16:33:49.492: resolution: 1280x720
16:33:49.492: flip: 0
16:33:49.492: fps: 30.00 (interval: 333333)
16:33:49.492: format: YUY2
16:33:49.808: using video device audio: no
16:33:49.808: audio device: Digital Audio Interface (MEI CV610-U3-V2)
16:33:49.808: sample rate: 44100
16:33:49.808: channels: 2
16:33:49.808: audio type: Capture
16:36:48.974: adding 640 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 640 milliseconds (source: PTZ Cam)
16:36:48.974:

glikely · Jul 16, 2021

Well, the log file confirms that OBS doesn't see the plug-in. When you copied the files in, were there other plug-in DLLs already in the 64bit directory? Like decklink-captions.dll? Double check that the ptz-controls files actually landed in the plug-in directory. I've had problems in the past with trying to copy the files in, but Windows blocking it because it is a privileged directory.

toplachi · Jul 16, 2021

Martyats said:
I did that and relaunched OBS. Where should I see these controls? I've looked in Tools, View, View/Docks, and Settings.
I'm looking forward to trying this!

Hmmm.. Just wondering, were the files copied like on the attached photo and not on another sub-folder?

Screen Shot 2021-07-16 at 10.55.06 AM.png

Martyats · Jul 16, 2021

Ah, I had copied them in the x86 folder instead of the 64bit folder. The plugin now works, thank you,
Now I have to get it to control the camera.

CaliHC · Jul 16, 2021

Can i run this great plugin standalone?
most of the time i use vmix and would like to use this piece of software

glikely · Jul 16, 2021

CaliHC said:
Can i run this great plugin standalone?
most of the time i use vmix and would like to use this piece of software

I've been thinking about making a standalone build. It would be a great feature. Please file a feature request in GitHub requesting one: https://github.com/glikely/obs-ptz/issues/new

glikely · Jul 16, 2021

CaliHC said:
Can i run this great plugin standalone?
most of the time i use vmix and would like to use this piece of software

Doesn't vMix already include PTZ controls?

CaliHC · Jul 16, 2021

yes it does in the 4k and pro licence.
but i only have a hd licence.

and the vmix control only speaks visca over ip, but all my cams are visca over serial.

and it would be good to use only one type of cam control software in both vmix and obs

glikely · Jul 19, 2021

glikely updated PTZ Controls with a new update entry:

v0.6.0 released

Another week, another release. Please test and let me know how it works.

In this release:

Compatibility fixes to support Cisco PrecisionHD cameras

Camera properties added to settings dialog (read only for now)

More presets displayed. 16 instead of 10

Added hotkeys for pan/tilt/zoom control

bug fixes

Read the rest of this update entry...

er1kr1984 · Jul 21, 2021

This is looking great, i have connected my AXIS V5925 and it works great, but i am having one issue the only problem i have is i cant connect my xbox one x gamepad when i select the gamepad tick box a box flashes up and disappears instantly.

Another thing that would be awesome would be ONVIF PTZ controls.

er1kr1984 · Jul 21, 2021

er1kr1984 said:
This is looking great, i have connected my AXIS V5925 and it works great, but i am having one issue the only problem i have is i cant connect my xbox one x gamepad when i select the gamepad tick box a box flashes up and disappears instantly.

Another thing that would be awesome would be ONVIF PTZ controls.

some additional information

When i check the windows game controller settings it can find them, i have downloaded the latest drivers i'm on the latest OBS and current on windows 10 ver 1909, which i am in the process of upgrading to the latest

When i check the log viewer it states gamepad found 0

ive also tried two different xbox controllers an xbox series x controller and a xbox one x controller

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