Script to start stream at a specific time?

[Andy Bundy]

Hello!

I use OBS with our church and I was wondering if it was possible (or if it exists already) to have a script that would start the stream at a specific time(s). We automate our countdown as well, and I thought it might be good to look into a script that could do the same.

Thanks,

 

[RytoEX]

A combination of a system scheduled script (Scheduled Task on Windows, Cron Job on Linux) and the Advanced Scene Switcher's timed scene round trip feature should be able to do this, if your countdown timer scene starts as soon as OBS starts. Alternatively, you could use the obs-websocket plugin and schedule a script to send the necessary websocket message to it to change the scene when you need to.

 

[Andy Bundy]

Thanks! I like the idea of websockets but I have no idea on how to script that. Looks like it's well documented though.