Request Global Hotkey for Hard Deactivate/Activate VCD Source

[REDDDDY]

is there a global hotkey to HARD DEACTIVATE and ACTIVATE a video capture device source?

I have seen alot of people having issues with their Video Capture Device source example Atem Mini Pro .. Elgato CamLink .. etcetera

freeze/hang random time and the only way to mitigate this is to open the Video Capture Device Source properties and manually click deactivate and activate again .

It would be super nice to have a somewhat global hotkey shortcut or the ability to do so with command line parameters or something similar over remote websocket as a button shortcut or a LUA script because the checkbox for "Deactivate when not showing" is not really a HARD DEACTIVATE.

Please help and consider this as a good request for future release updates

thank you for your great time, efforts and consideration

 

[AaronD]

Install OBS Websockets

Don't. You'll mess up the one that's already there. Just turn it on, if that really is the way you want to do it.

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However, it sounds to me like OP is on a resource-exclusive operating system, most likely Windows, and wants to use the capture device in a different app too, without closing OBS. So OBS needs to release it so the other app can grab it.

Unfortunately, I don't think that's possible, without explicitly and completely deleting all references to it in OBS, which is probably not what OP wants either.

A possible workaround though, is to use OBS's Virtual Camera to feed the other app, and not the original device. The original device is "owned" by OBS as long as OBS is open, and you have OBS send it to the VCam. Then the other app uses the VCam, and not the device itself.

Unfortunately, OBS has to be running for that to work, but when it's not, the original is (presumably) available. So you can flip back and forth in the other app, between the raw device and OBS's Virtual Camera. Not ideal either, but it does work. Also be aware that OBS can't grab it while the other app has it, so you'll have the same problem over there too.

Or, you could switch to a different operating system that is *not* resource-exclusive, like Ubuntu Studio Linux. :-)

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THAT is nice!

 

[REDDDDY]

this is now resolved by advanced scene switcher plugins.