What's the best way to do this?

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ReactClips

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Context:
I have an app that runs in a Chrome window. I would like to follow up with an event that happens in the app by triggering some UI to show up in OBS. This event can happen multiple times during a users stream and the content of the event will be string that changes.

What I would like to achieve:
Let the users of my app set up their own graphic with a placeholder for a string that my chrome extension will provide. I would like the graphic to be hidden, then when an event happens in my app, send OBS the string value, and display the graphic (perhaps with a slide-in kind of animation. Like a notification.)

Questions:
- How to I send a string value from my chrome app to OBS?
- How can I allow the user to provide their own content, styled the way they like, but just provide the string data for their element on screen?
- Is a plugin the best way to go about this?

Thank you!
 
John Hartman

John Hartman

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Your Chome app can use the OBS Websocket interface to interact with OBS. Using the websocket interface you can do things including:
  • change scenes (if your user graphics are complete scenes)
  • show or hide sources in a scene (if your user graphics are rendered by a source or sources)
  • change the text value (or other attributes) of a GDI Text source to show your desired string
  • If your "graphics" are literally image files, change the filename in an OBS image source to point at the desired graphic
  • If your "graphics" are html pages, change the URL/filename in an OBS browser source to point at the desired page
Google for API details and examples.
 
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AaronD

Active Member
There's also the Advanced Scene Switcher plugin, whose author is very active in the Discussion thread and very accommodating:

Advanced Scene Switcher

Warmuptill submitted a new resource: Automatic Scene Switching - Switches to specified scenes depending on which window is in focus A remake of the "Simple Scene Switcher"(https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/simple-scene-switcher.29/) for obs-studio. Installation 1. Extract the folder. 2...
obsproject.com obsproject.com
Try not to abuse it, but it's almost become a way to request just about any automation feature you could want in OBS. Some of what the now-current official release does is because of my requests...
 
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