About
General Usage
- Open tally.piraten.live in a web browser (On a pc, laptop, tablet, smartphone)
- You can enter or change the ip to the address of your obs machine.
- Click on the "Connect to OBS" button
- If the connection to the obs machine was successful, a list of buttons will show up with all your inputs and sources from obs and two other buttons on top for "Stream Status" and "Recording Status"
- As soon as you click the "Connect to OBS" button, the connection data will be saved in your bowser if possible. If you then reload the page on the device it will auto-fill the IP field with the saved value so you don't have to re-enter it every time.
Show Stream or Recording Status
- Click the "Stream Status" or "Recording Status" button
- That's it. It will show OFFLINE/IDLE and a white background if you're not streaming/recording and LIVE/REC with a red background when the stream is live/recording is active
Show Scene Tally
- Click on the scene name you want that are listed under "Scenes"
- It will show the name of the scene on top of the page
- If the scene is neither in preview or program, the background will be black
- If the scene is in preview, the background will be green
- If the scene is in program, the background will be red
- If a transition (like a fade) is started where the destination scene is the scene you selected, then it will light up red
- If studio mode is disabled there will be only a red and black display, no green and also no red state while a transition is active
- If a scene is nested into another scene (1-level deep) then it will also show tally for the scenes including the selected scene
Show Input Tally
- You can also show the tally status for individual sources. Every scene that containes a SceneItem of that Input will be handled like described in Show Scene Tally above
- The tool will keep track of changes to the scenes/innputs like add, delete or renames and will automatically adjust
Advanced options
- If you want the page to be displayed in fullscreen then right-click the page and click "Toggle fullscreen". This can't be stored between reloads thanks to browser "security".
- If you want to see a small image preview of the current program scene in the bottom left corner that updates every X seconds then then right-click the page and click "Enable PGM screenshot". This will be saved across reloads. To disable just open the context menu again and choose "Disable PGM screenshot". Showing transitions is not supported.
- If you want the page to automatically connect to obs without making any default selection then right-click the page and click "Enable auto connect". This will be saved across reloads. To disable just open the context menu again and choose "Disable auto connect".
- If you want to automatically restore what you last selected in terms of Stream/Rec Status / Scene / Input then right-click the page and click "Enable auto restore". This will be saved across reloads. To disable just open the context menu again and choose "Disable auto restore". You can combine this will auto connect for the full experience.
- If you want to delete all of the locally stored data (obs connection settings, advanced options) then right-click the page and click "Clear all saved settings". This will clear the data and reload the page.
- If you want to provide the obs host and password as URL parameters, you can do that. Just append ?host=yourhost&password=yourpassword to the url. Make sure to URL-encode it.