OBS is a great streaming software, the only issue is that you cannot send hotkeys to it when on wayland as it would be "insecure" - I get the mentality, if you allowed hotkey acess to a window not in focus, it could very well be malicious.
The way around this is as follows:
Install python library - simpleobsws:
pip install simpleobswsWrite a python script as follows:
in obs_switch.py:
import asyncio
import simpleobsws
import sys
async def control_obs(action):
url = "ws://localhost:4444"
ws = simpleobsws.WebSocketClient(url=url)
try:
await ws.connect()
await ws.wait_until_identified()
if action in ["1", "2"]: # Scene switching
scenes = {
"1": "camera",
"2": "screen"
}
request = simpleobsws.Request('SetCurrentProgramScene', {
'sceneName': scenes[action]
})
await ws.call(request)
elif action == "toggle":
# First check recording status
request = simpleobsws.Request('GetRecordStatus')
status = await ws.call(request)
if status.responseData['outputActive']:
request = simpleobsws.Request('StopRecord')
else:
request = simpleobsws.Request('StartRecord')
await ws.call(request)
finally:
await ws.disconnect()
if __name__ == "__main__":
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
asyncio.run(control_obs(sys.argv[1]))then call this via a hotkey setup in GNOME:
/usr/bin/python3 /home/joshua/.config/scripts/obs_switch.py 1
/usr/bin/python3 /home/joshua/.config/scripts/obs_switch.py 2
/usr/bin/python3 /home/joshua/.config/scripts/obs_switch.py toggleand assign it to whatever hotkey you want. You can now switch OBS stream inputs and toggle recording on the fly when not focusing on an OBS window.
Simple and a nice way to not have to mess around with other settings as it will then carry over to any hotkey daemon you set up.