Action for controlling OBS

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2024-12-24_15-44-03
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I often use OBS as a way to do recording and presentations, and I found I often wanted to control OBS from my actions in Keyboard Maestro. There are a few ways that I have done it, but to make it a bit simpler, I created a plugin to help.

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Main Features

  • Start/Stop/Toggle recording
  • Start/Stop/Toggle streaming
  • Start/Stop/Toggle Virtual Camera
  • Switch scenes
  • Switch scene collections
  • Capture screenshots in OBS

Dependencies

To use this, you are going to need to install Homebrew and the obs-cmd library which you can do the following:

  1. Open your Terminal.
  2. To install Homebrew, run the following command /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" per instructions from Homebrew.
  3. Install obs-cmd by running the command brew install obs-cmd.

After that, you can then install the unzipped package into the /Users/bvanderb/Library/Application Support/Keyboard Maestro/Keyboard Maestro Actions/ folder or drag and drop the ZIP file into Keyboard Maestro.

Let me know your thoughts!

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