Weather for OBS

[Dstren]

Hey Guys,
I run a Weather Stream for a particular area of Alabama and Georgia that gets left behind by the major TV markets during severe weather events. I have been using OBS for several years. I am looking for a way to import severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service when a watch or warning is issued for my coverage area. The NWS does offer RSS and ATOM feeds. I’m looking for a way to have an alert pop up on the screen as soon as it’s issued or scroll at the bottom of the screen. Any suggestions?
Thank you in advance!

 

[qhobbes]

You can Window Capture Tickr; FOS feed reader.

 

[Mike Barker]

No. The desire is to have a background job checking a weather feeding service every few (minutes/seconds), and upon detection, in the background (via script or something) ping on the weather service, receive a TEXT STRING, perhaps save that string to a file, and then display that text string in a text box in OBS. No screen capture. Display of text data.
Can OBS grab a string of text from an internet https/RSS/something query, and display that text (if it exists) in the usual OBS text box?

 

[Dstren]

No. The desire is to have a background job checking a weather feeding service every few (minutes/seconds), and upon detection, in the background (via script or something) ping on the weather service, receive a TEXT STRING, perhaps save that string to a file, and then display that text string in a text box in OBS. No screen capture. Display of text data.
Can OBS grab a string of text from an internet https/RSS/something query, and display that text (if it exists) in the usual OBS text box?

Exactly Mike!!

 

[royshilkrot]

if anyone gets back to this thread - check out URL/API source which can do what you're asking: https://obsproject.com/forum/resour...ve-data-media-and-ai-on-obs-made-simple.1756/

 

[10racing]

royshulkrot: Could you do a video on how to do it?

Thanks in advance!

 

[10racing]

if anyone gets back to this thread - check out URL/API source which can do what you're asking: https://obsproject.com/forum/resour...ve-data-media-and-ai-on-obs-made-simple.1756/

royshulkrot: Could you do a video on how to do it?

Thanks in advance!

 

[CGray1234]

I recommend using AtmosphericX for this. It has an alert ticker at the bottom and pops up alerts from the NWS API. It is ran locally, so you'll need to install some things to get it working, but it's totally worth it in my opinion (if you've ever watched Ryan Hall, it's almost a 1:1 recreation of his setup).

AtmosphericX preview:

Once you have it running locally, all you need to do from there is just add it as a browser source into OBS, and you're all set!

I can help answer any questions if needed.
Hope this helps!

 

[CM$NY]

Hey thanks for sharing this, I was really stuck. I've gotten to the point of seeing the localhost/dashboard, but how do I see/access the overlay like you've shared here?

 

[CM$NY]

Hey thanks for sharing this, I was really stuck. I've gotten to the point of seeing the localhost/dashboard, but how do I see/access the overlay like you've shared here?

I found the address to use in OBS http://localhost:3010/stream. Now my trouble is I want to limit the watches and warnings to my home state, but I haven't found the necessary change in the config file to make that happen. I tried deleting all other states from "application:states". Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Redbird2010]

You can Also use vmix