This provides two control services for OBS:
- A control panel that allows switching scenes, muting/unmuting audio, and so on.
- A live preview.
These are local applications running in Python Tkinter, so should work on any operating system (if not, that's a bug).
Zipapp bundles dependencies, and hopefully works on any recent version
of python3 (>3.9+ because of obsws-python). preview requires
pillow (PyPI package pillow, Debian package python3-pil) since
zipapps can't contain binary modules.
$ wget http://coderefinery.github.io/obs-cr/obs-cr.pyz
# usage:
python3 obs-cr.pyz control [args from below]
python3 obs-cr.pyz preview [args from below]Create a virtual environment. Note that obsws-python unfortunately requires Python 3.9+.
$ pip install https://github.com/coderefinery/obs-cr/archive/master.zip
If you are just using this: The broadcaster should give you the respective commands to run and you don't need to worry.
There is control.py to make a control panel, and preview.py to
give a preview.
obs-cr-control HOSTNAME:PORT PASSWORD
obs-cr-preview HOSTNAME:PORT PASSWORD [--delay S]
obs-cr-control --smallstarts a small panel, designed for the most critical indicators and buttons on a crowded teacher's screen. It doesn't replace or have everything of the full panel (you need the full panel open somewhere else, or a separate director).obs-cr-control --testwill run without connecting to OBS. Not everything works and there might be visible tracebacks, but you can test the general things out.
This is a streaming control panel. There are tooltips that explain most things, but just open it up and see.
This is synced with OBS (it uses OBS as the synchronization server itself, which is cool). Anything RED indicates something may be live. "Indicators" are synced lights: click a light on any control panel, and it's synced across all of them.
This shows a live preview with less latency than the stream shows.
Use --delay S to set the delay to S seconds, the default is 1 which
might be a bit too slow. This is an relatively space-inefficient
screenshot, so try not to make it too close to realtime. 0.2 is
probably fine, even 0.1.
Commands for copying and pasting
- Linux, Firefox:
obs-cr-control localhost:4445 TOKEN --notes-window='^TTT4HPC 07/05/2024.*Privat()e' --resolution-command="xdotool search --onlyvisible --name '^Zoom$' windowsize WIDTH HEIGHT;" --broadcaster
In development, not recommended for general use unless you want to go into the code.