johnny_bravo
Member
Hi Glikeky, good to hear you are fine! Does the new update also support onvif ? Thanx and good to have you back!!
MMTech1
New Member
I've been using this PTZ for a few years now with two cameras. I'm not having any problems with the software at all, except, between using OBS, if my network goes down, sometime during my absence, when I boot up the computer, the network changes the cameras IP addresses, so I then have to correct that in the PTZ software manually to let it know which camera is which, but that's not a problem with this. I'm using OBS 31.0.3 since it came out and everything thing works great still. Loving this, next week I'm adding two more cameras. I just need to figure out how to fix the IP addresses of the cameras to be the same, after the my network drops and comes back on. Thank You so much. Great work.
glikely
Member
Thanks for the feedback, and I’m glad it’s working well for you.
Please give the latest prerelease a try. You can now specify camera by host name instead of IP address.
dqm
Member
It's advisable to assign static IP addresses to your cameras. There are two ways; I prefer the second:
1. Login to your router's admin panel and look for the DHCP settings. Most routers have a way to map the MAC address of your camera to an IP address. With this method, the router assigns always assigns the same IP address to the MAC address. Set camera to use DHCP.
2. Login to your router's admin panel and loof for the DHCP settings. You should find a place to exclude a range of IP addresses from the DHCP pool. Set your camera to use a fixed IP address instead of DHCP. Choose the fixed address from one of those excluded from the DHCP pool. With this method, the IP address is set in the camera and the router's DHCP server does not assign that IP address to any other devices
I'm new to OBS and PTZ Controls. It's possible I'm just using it wrong. I'm running OBS v 31.0.3 on MacOS 15.4.1, M4 Max Mac Studio, PTZOptics Move 4K 30x NDI HX camera. I'm running the Pre-5 image of PTZ Controls. I've been able to add Scenes in OBS which have PTZ Action "n" as the Source. PTZ Action is configured with NDI Source as the source, action of Recall Preset. NDI Source is configured as PTZOPTICS (Chan 1, 192.168.1.148). NDI Source works fine (Preview and Program) when included directly as the Source but not when included via PTZ Action (Preview is all black). I'm not sure how to diagnose this. I looked at the OBS log file, but nothing jumps out at me.
Further information. The video is visible if I add NDI Source in addition to PTZ Action in the Source field for the Scene. I'm not sure if that's correct procedure. Also, the presets are not applied from the PTZ Controls dock when double clicked. So maybe the issue is with creation or recall of presets, independent of PTZ Action.
The PTZ Device shows up as VISCA/TCP 192.186.1.148:5678, which I believe is correct for this camera.
glikely
Member
Yes, it is correct procedure. The PTZ Action source is not a source at all, it is merely a trigger for executing PTZ commands. You still need your NDI video source in the scene.
glikely
Member
Are you able to control the camera from the dock? When you create a preset, have you right clicked on it and chosen "Save Preset?" The preset locations are all stored on the camera, not in the plugin, so you need to tell the camera to save the preset before it will be useful.
Further diagnosis. The camera presets work when set using the camera's web management UI and recalled from the PTX Control dock (double click) or by a PTZ Action. The problem seemed to be setting the presets via the PTX control dock. Hmmm. I'll delete everything and try fresh.
Oh, no.... I didn't. I just hit <return> which *appeared* to create the preset. It probably just created the preset name. I didn't right click and "save". That's probably where I went wrong. Thanks!
patrickbaltieri
New Member
I saw your plugin in youtube, it's great!
I am trying to use in my OBS 31.0.1, but no success, it did not appears in OBS. I treid ti install the .exe or and the file direct to OBS folder, but does not works. I am using windows 11.
I tested in 3 machines, but did not work. Can you help to install it?
patrickbaltieri
New Member
Problem solved... I renamed the folder bin to obs-plugin and put in the obs folder. This way the plugin worked.
I teste with my Insta360 Link and worked perfectly.
Thank you
glikely
Member
Glad it’s working for you. Thanks for the feedback. Odd though that it didn’t install easily. Did you use the installer or the zip file?
patrickbaltieri
New Member
I tried install with both, exe and zip files.
glikely
Member
Could you please try:
1. uninstall ptz controls completely using add/remove programs
2. Start a reinstall using the installer
3. Tell me what directory the installer uses (should be something like C:\programData\obs-studio\plugins\obs-ptz)
4. Tell me if it worked this time :-)
NosnafitaBR
New Member
Glikely
I really liked the new update. Just as feedback, the camera movements when using the command arrows seem to get stuck if you keep them pressed, which causes the commands to stop working sometimes.
I really liked the new update. Just as feedback, the camera movements when using the command arrows seem to get stuck if you keep them pressed, which causes the commands to stop working sometimes.