Pan Tilt Zoom (PTZ) Controls for OBS Studio

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

This plugin is a work in progress! It is not feature complete and not very useful yet. Feel free to help out! Patches can be submitted as Github pull requests.

Project build infrastructure based on: obsproject/obs-studio#2380

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\Qt5SerialPort.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/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.