Pan Tilt Zoom (PTZ) Controls for OBS Studio

Plugin for OBS Studio to add a PTZ Camera control dock.

Features:

• Pan, Tilt, and Zoom controls
• Save and recall camera presets
• Control any number of cameras
• Auto select active camera based on active scene
• Supported protocols
  • VISCA
  • VISCA-over-IP
  • Pelco-P

OBS project resource page

#obsptz on Twitter

Build Instructions

Build as standalone plugin (recommended for faster build turnaround)

Standalone Build for Linux

• Install OBS Studio including headers
  • Follow instructions for your distribution: https://obsproject.com/wiki/install-instructions
• clone this repository and build:

git clone https://github.com/glikely/obs-ptz
mkdir obs-ptz/build
cd obs-ptz/build
cmake ..
make

Copy or symlink ptz-controls.so into the OBS plugins directory. Typically /usr/lib/obs-plugins.

Standalone Build for Windows

• Build OBS Studio using instructions on OBS-Studio Wiki: https://obsproject.com/wiki/Install-Instructions
• Clone this repository into a working directory
• Modify (or copy and modify) CI\install-script-win.cmd, changing values of DepsPath, QTDIR, and LibObs_DIR to match your local environment
• Create a build directory under obs-ptz
• Run CI\windows-configure.cmd to invoke cmake
• Run CI\windows-build.cmd to make the binary

git clone https://github.com/glikely/obs-ptz
cd obs-ptz
mkdir build
cd build
..\CI\windows-configure.cmd
..\CI\windows-build.cmd

• Copy the following files into OBS plugins directory
  • build\Debug\ptz-controls.dll
  • %QTDIR%\bin\Qt5SerialPortd.dll
  • %QTDIR%\bin\Qt5Gamepadd.dll

Build inside OBS source tree

• Build OBS according to official instructions: https://obsproject.com/wiki/Install-Instructions
• Check out this repository to UI/frontend-plugins

cd obs-studio/UI/frontend-plugins
git clone https://github.com/glikely/obs-ptz

• Add obs-ptz to the OBS build scripts using included patch

cd obs-studio
git am < UI/frontend-plugins/obs-ptz/patches/0001-Add-obs-ptz-plugin-to-OBS-Studio.patch

• Rebuild OBS Studio

Contributing

Contributions welcome! You can submit changes as GitHub pull requests. Or email patches to me at mailto:grant.likely@secretlab.ca

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.