Question / Help Start stream automatically

[ahefner]

Is there anyway to have OBS launch and automatically start streaming? I have tried the following with no success.

in a terminal window...
open /Applications/OBS.app --args -start

 

[Sapiens]

I believe the correct syntax is --startstreaming

https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/releases/tag/0.14.1

Added command line parameters: --collection [scene collection name], --profile [profile name], --scene [scene name], --startstreaming, --startrecording. If a collection/profile/scene has a space in the name, use quotes around the full name.

 

[ahefner]

tried the following command and OBS launches but does not start streaming.

open /Applications/OBS.app --args --startstreaming
open /Applications/OBS.app --args -startstreaming
open /Applications/OBS.app --args startstreaming

 

[ahefner]

Found a solution...

from the terminal type in the following

/Applications/OBS.app/Contents/MacOS/OBS --startstreaming

 

[Spencer Conklin]

Ahefner. Thank you for posting this! This almost does the trick.
It launches OBS but does not start the streaming. Does anyone know the secret?

Also, it appears to leave me in the shell and not return to the command prompt, I want to be able to stop and start streaming at certain times of day, dawn and dusk. I am broadcasting an owl. He is only active at those times.

 

[Spencer Conklin]

Anyone?

 

[Sikosis]

The only issue with doing "/Applications/OBS.app/Contents/MacOS/OBS --startstreaming" is this creates a new instance of OBS and if OBS is already open you'll have two copies running. Not sure why OBS allows you to have multiple copies running though ... maybe someone has a use case for it.

 

[David Namdvili]

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