obs-websocket VS PCPanel

This started out of nowhere - and the only thing I can think of is that I downloaded the OBS Websocket Plugin, though I have it disabled.

I believe controlling a remote OBS instance can be done using the web socket plugin. https://github.com/obsproject/obs-websocket

If you want to get really fancy, OBS websocket might be worth a look. You can then react to in-game events with some direct scene changes in OBS. There is basically no limit for your creativity.

The only tip I'd have would be for Wayland users who suffer from not having global shortcuts work with OBS: obs-cli with obs-websocket have you covered. Set a keyboard shortcut or Stream Deck button (using streamdeck-ui) to execute an obs-cli command and you're done.

In another topic it was also mentioned that there is a Legacy Websocket plugin to allow the original PCPanel software to still connect.

NDI is a video transport over network solution, NOT a remote control solution. If you want to change scene's over a network connection you'd want to look at something like obs-websockets - https://github.com/obsproject/obs-websocket OR something like Touch Portal - https://www.touch-portal.com/

Grab the OBS WebSocket 4.9.1 Compat plugin from GitHub. BarRaider's OBS tools doesn't support OBS 28's WebSocket version yet.

The original 4.9.1 doesn't work in OBS 28, which may be the issue. If you're on OBS 28.x and need websocket 4.x then make sure you're using 4.9.1-compat

Up.https://github.com/obsproject/obs-websocket/releases/tag/5.0.1

I ended up using https://github.com/nvdweem/PCPanel instead of the official software. Thank you for the reply though.

Starting with OBS 28, the WebSocket plugin should be 5.0+. There were some huge changes in the WebSocket 5 so the implementation for that was changed. In the open source version, I dropped support for 4, I'm guessing the official software did as well.

My non-official software has this in the 1.7-SNAPSHOT version.

The non-official software also has support for OBS 28.

Are you using the official software or nvdweem's 3rd party one from github? If you're using the official one, I use nvdweem's and have had far less problems (none, to be exact) and there are so many more features. I see no reason not to try it out and see if it fixes your problem! https://github.com/nvdweem/PCPanel/releases/ P.S. i recommend installing v1.6 first, making sure all your current settings transfer over and then installing snapshot 1.7 if you choose to do so, as v1.7 converts the file to a different file format for the save file and im unsure how that works going straight from the official software.

If you are using the official software, you could try the open source version to see if that works. Or the other way around if you are using the open source version already. The biggest difference between the two is specifically how they control the volume.

I just got my order in today and the device is showing up in windows but not in the software. This is for the stock software and the 1.6 snapshot from here: https://github.com/nvdweem/PCPanel/releases/tag/latest-windows

Had to switch to linux, and found nvdweem's pcpanel application which can run on linux. https://github.com/nvdweem/PCPanel

There is in the open source version. The cogwheel next to the profile has an option for an `Activation shortcut`.