Streaming Management

The goal of this project is to manage most of the setup for hosting a streaming using obs. It includes a server to render all obs studio overlays and a few scenses. We will be also using this server for displaying new followers while streaming.

TODO

• Document how to use overlay server
• Github actions
• Allow follower goal to be turned off
• Add support for subscriber goals
• Add new overlay for emotes use in chat
• Support notifications for new subscribers and bits donations
• Alert when a subscriber or VIP joins the chat overlay
• Add bot to handle commands
  • Enable or disable bot
  • Add permissions for who can use the command
  • Manage server configuration (turning off goals, turn emote overlay off/on)
  • Allow simple commands via configurations files
  • Support of what is happening today
• Add logging to server
• Manage OBS studio profile and scenes
• Make highlighted messages bigger and change colors
• Cache access token and refresh token to disk
• Add example of adding commands

OS configurations

macOS Catalina

• Import scenes and profile into OBS studio

Audio setup

• Install Loopback or Soundflower
• Create two audio devices
  • Name: Chrome
  • Source: Chrome
  • Name: Music
  • Source: Spotify

Windows 10

• Copy profile and scenes to %APPDATA%\Roaming\obs-studio\basic

Audio setup

Fedora

• dnf install pavucontrol
• dnf install pulseeffects
• Import scenes and profile into OBS

Audio setup

Create music devices

pacmd update-sink-proplist streaming_music device.description=streaming_music
pacmd load-module module-null-sink streaming_music
pactl load-module module-loopback source=streaming_music.monitor sink=alsa_output.pci-0000_0b_00.3.analog-stereo

• Create a symbolic from config/fedora/.config/PulseEffects to ~/.config/PulseEffects/
• Open PulseEffects and set presenter to Twitch
• Open PulseAudio Volume Control and go to recoding. Set obs mic to PulseEffects(mic)
• In PulseAudio Volume Control Playback tab set the music source to streaming_music

Notes

• Chrome windows doesn't work with OBS on Fedora