Quickshell overlay for controlling OBS >30 via websocketv5.
Required env variables:
- WSKEY - your obs websocket v5 key
- WSPORT - websocket port
- OBSCMD - command used to launch OBS
Card options NVIDIACARD=1 or AMDCARD=1
(purely aesthetic, functionally the same... for now)
Built w/ Quickshell, big thanks to outfoxxed! https://git.outfoxxed.me/outfoxxed/quickshell
Make sure the icons reside in the same directory as qml document.
Why? because I felt like it.
Features:
- Launch OBS
- Toggle recording
- Toggle streaming
- Toggle replay buffer
- Scene selection
- Card usage statistics
- Gallery
- Quickmenu
quickshell
yay -S --needed qt5-graphicaleffects qt6ct qt6-shadertools obs-cmd
flatpak install com.obsproject.Studio
Open OBS, Tools > Websocket Server Settings Enable WebSocket server and set server password Create a scene with your source of choice. When monitor or source select prompt pops up make sure to check "Allow restore token".
Optionally: Settings > General > System Tray > Enable & Minimize to tray when started
mv qtshadow ~/.config/quickshell/
Hyprland: toggle / bindr and layerrules
layerrule = blur, qtshadow
layerrule = ignorezero, qtshadow
layerrule = animation slide, qtshadow
bindr = SUPERSHIFT, Q, exec, pkill quickshell || AMDCARD=1 WSKEY=123456 WSPORT=4455 OBSCMD=com.obsproject.Studio quickshell --config ~/.config/quickshell/qtshadow/shell.qml 2>/dev/null &