Random Scene Switch!

[SViper]

Hello,
I'm using current OBS version and I have Random Scene Switching in middle of game while not doing myself including not pressing buttons I designated. So I streamed for over 20 minutes Ending Scene when I started stream over hour ago and people couldn't see now that important gameplay while thinking that I'm ending the stream.
Thank you in advance for reading and listening!

 

[SViper]

It happen twice before as well in same version.

 

[FerretBomb]

Which keys do you have set?
OBS uses hotkeys (not shortcuts), so if you've set a scene to 's' for example, you'll get a scene switch typing the word 'fast', in any context at all.

 

[SViper]

Which keys do you have set?
OBS uses hotkeys (not shortcuts), so if you've set a scene to 's' for example, you'll get a scene switch typing the word 'fast', in any context at all.

Num /, Num *, Num -.

Edit: it switched randomly to my Ending Scene again, but this time I saw it quickly.

 

[slotth]

This is happening to me as well, if OBS is in focus and I press a key, OBS switches to the next scene with that letter. The only hot keys I ahve setup are on the numpad.

 

[SENazSD]

I know it is an old thread but, I'm also having this issue. I have hotkeys (Q, W, A, and S) assigned to my 4 scenes named (Pulpit, TV, Communion, and Full). I also have a few "text" sources named (Opening, Psalm, and Homily) with hotkeys assigned (O, P, H). Every time I type the first letter of the scene name or "text" source hotkey, OBS switches to that scene! ie. if I am in my "Full" scene and I press "P" to turn on or off the Psalm, the scene gets switched to Pulpit. (No P is not assigned as a hotkey for Pulpit). Is there a way to turn this off? We are using windows 11, OBS 29.1.3 (64 bit).

 

[AaronD]

I know it is an old thread but, I'm also having this issue. I have hotkeys (Q, W, A, and S) assigned to my 4 scenes named (Pulpit, TV, Communion, and Full). I also have a few "text" sources named (Opening, Psalm, and Homily) with hotkeys assigned (O, P, H). Every time I type the first letter of the scene name or "text" source hotkey, OBS switches to that scene! ie. if I am in my "Full" scene and I press "P" to turn on or off the Psalm, the scene gets switched to Pulpit. (No P is not assigned as a hotkey for Pulpit). Is there a way to turn this off? We are using windows 11, OBS 29.1.3 (64 bit).

Yes! Hotkeys do that! The trick is to design them so that "normal, other use" doesn't hit them. I use the numpad for mine, and I've pretty well filled it up. The top-row numbers are different from that, so I can still type those without setting it off.

If the problem is triggering OBS while you're using a *different* app, there's this setting:

If it's more like an auto-completion, yes, the Scene list does that too. The trick there, is to not have the Scene list in focus. Click somewhere else, and then the auto-select doesn't happen.

 

[SENazSD]

Yes! Hotkeys do that! The trick is to design them so that "normal, other use" doesn't hit them. I use the numpad for mine, and I've pretty well filled it up. The top-row numbers are different from that, so I can still type those without setting it off.

If the problem is triggering OBS while you're using a *different* app, there's this setting:
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If it's more like an auto-completion, yes, the Scene list does that too. The trick there, is to not have the Scene list in focus. Click somewhere else, and then the auto-select doesn't happen.

Thanks for the response, good to know it is not just me or my imagination. Pretty annoying that OBS has these "phantom" hotkeys automatically assiged to the 1st letter of the scene and that they cannot be turned off, any way to make a suggestion to the OBS powers that be to get this remedied in a future update? I may adjust my scene name from "Pulpit" to "Lectern" so I can still use hotkey P for putting up and taking down the "text source" "Psalm" scripture. In any case, thanks for the validation and explanation!

 

[SENazSD]

Ok, after playing around with it a bit more I've discovered a few things and odd behaviors, and I am coining the term "Phantom Hotkeys" (unless of course someone has already used it, then I'm claiming, "Great minds think alike!":

It seems that the "Phantom Hotkeys" only take effect when you are actively in/on the "Scenes" dock, ie. clicked on/in the dock, then the 1st letter of each scene acts as a hotkey. If you are clicked in/on the "sources dock," then the 1st letter of the different scenes do not act as "phantom hotkeys"...!!!! Although I did not understand it at first, I believe this is what AaronD meant when he said:

...If it's more like an auto-completion, yes, the Scene list does that too. The trick there, is to not have the Scene list in focus. Click somewhere else, and then the auto-select doesn't happen.

My setup: I set hotkeys "Q,W,A,S" because they create a square on the keyboard that corresponds to way the scenes show up in my OBS Scene Dock, set to display as "Grid Mode" which, for the most part, corresponds to the way our stage is configured:
Q = Lectern // W = TV
A = Communion // S = Full

***As a janky workaround, I renamed my "Pulpit" scene to "Lectern" to avoid the conflict with hotkey "P" that I am using for turning on/off the Psalm scripture "Text Source" named "Psalm." I don't trust myself or others to not be active, clicked in/on, "in focus" of the Scene list and have the "Phantom Hotkeys" switch the scene on us. It would be nice if they had an option to turn on/off this "auto-complete," 1st letter of the scene, Phantom Hotkey feature. Perhaps it is useful if you have a gazillion different scenes, but for us small-time users I think it is annoying, and since you can assign hotkeys as you wish, you could have the system simply auto assign the hotkey to the 1st letter of the scene, or just let the use do so.

@ArronD: After playing around and rereading your response, I think I am understanding what you meant more and more. I am putting it into my own words that helped me clarify and understand it better for myself, perhaps it will help others as well. Thanks so much for your help, I feel I have wrapped my head around the issue and, although annoying, I am glad I understand what is happening and why, and now know the options I have to deal with it. THANKS!

 

[AaronD]

Yep! That's exactly what I meant. :-)

For the geometric assignment instead of linguistic, I do that too. My numpad lines up as a grid with the Multiview, which makes it not in numerical order. I don't even use names; just the live picture of what it actually is.

• 7 and 0 for the two left ones in the 2x4 grid
• 1-6 for the rest of them
• 8-9 and the mathematical operators are special functions
• '.' takes the previewed scene and makes it live

All of that is different from the rest of the keyboard, so I can use that normally without it going nuts. And because it's a desktop with a short-cord keyboard, I also have a USB numpad that lines up nicely with that arrangement.