obs-tally-lights

Raspberry Pi Tally Light script for OBS

Requirements

Hardware

• 1 Raspberry Pi with GPIO pins and network access
• 1 Breadboard
• 1 LED
• 1 resistor (330Ω)
• 2 jumper cables

Everything needed excluding the RPi is included in the CamJam EduKit from https://thepihut.com

Software

• gpiozero
• obs-websocket-py

obs-websocket is also required to be installed on the machine running OBS

Setup

• Install the required packages on you RPi
• Install obs-websocket on your computer running OBS and set password
• Create a python file on you RPi, with one of the to .py files from this repository
  • tally-lights.py is used with multiple raspberry pis, to turn on and off a single light for each pi depending on what scene is active
  • tally-lights-single.py is used whith only 1 raspberry pi, to turn on different lights on the same board for different scenes
• Edit the variables to match your setup
  • See comments in file. host, port, password and scenes
• Add the file to startup for a more convenient workflow
• Connect the LED to your RPi. From RPi ground, via resistor to LED to RPi PIN 17 (or, if you are using tally-lights-single.py, to numbers set on line 19 and below)

Read here for detailed instructions.

Note that this is my first ever python project, so I'll happily accept improvements.