Struggle with the scenes and the sources you need to have

[juergenschubert]

Hey, just by using the default setting without changing anything what senses do you need:
I think two: timer and Scene 2. Correct?
Now the question is what kind of sources do you have behind dyntext, factored, color, dyntext 2, pres1 and pres2 and after as well as text_green, img1_a omg2 Image ?

[sebo-b]

Correct, you need two scenes:

• "timer"
• "Scene 2"

Then the first element of the list should be text, which will be populated with schedule_messages. Look at this line:

if sceneItemId ~= "text_gdiplus" and sceneItemId ~= "text_ft2_source" and sceneItemId ~= "text_ft2_source_v2"then

I run this script on Mac and Windows and it worked, but if there are multiple type of texts you need to find a proper one, or extend the above line with the appropriate text type.

Other elements of the list (factoid, color, pres1, etc) can be anything, they will be shown/hidden depending on the schedule.

[juergenschubert]

Great and when I do get a: on m mac
[obs-schedulecountdown.lua] All seems ok!
[obs-schedulecountdown.lua] All seems ok!
[obs-schedulecountdown.lua] Failed to call timer_cb for timer_call: ...plugins/frontend-tools/scripts/obs-schedulecountdown.lua:300: attempt to index a nil value
[obs-schedulecountdown.lua] Failed to call timer_cb for timer_call: ...plugins/frontend-tools/scripts/obs-schedulecountdown.lua:300: attempt to index a nil value
[obs-schedulecountdown.lua] Failed to call timer_cb for timer_call: ...plugins/frontend-tools/scripts/obs-schedulecountdown.lua:300: attempt to index a nil value
[obs-schedulecountdown.lua] Failed to call timer_cb for timer_call: ...plugins/frontend-tools/scripts/obs-schedulecountdown.lua:300: attempt to index a nil value
[obs-schedulecountdown.lua] All seems ok!
[obs-schedulecountdown.lua] Failed to call timer_cb for timer_call: ...plugins/frontend-tools/scripts/obs-schedulecountdown.lua:300: attempt to index a nil value
[obs-schedulecountdown.lua] Failed to call timer_cb for timer_call: ...plugins/frontend-tools/scripts/obs-schedulecountdown.lua:300: attempt to index a nil value
[obs-schedulecountdown.lua] Failed to call timer_cb for timer_call: ...plugins/frontend-tools/scripts/obs-schedulecountdown.lua:300: attempt to index a nil value
[obs-schedulecountdown.lua] Failed to call timer_cb for timer_call: ...plugins/frontend-tools/scripts/obs-schedulecountdown.lua:300: attempt to index a nil value
[obs-schedulecountdown.lua] Failed to call timer_cb for timer_call: ...plugins/frontend-tools/scripts/obs-schedulecountdown.lua:300: attempt to index a nil value
[obs-schedulecountdown.lua] Failed to call timer_cb for timer_call: ...plugins/frontend-tools/scripts/obs-schedulecountdown.lua:300: attempt to index a nil value

[juergenschubert]

So I was using in scene timer Sources like
after, dyntext and dyntext 2 defined as text (FreeType 2)
pres2 pres1 factored and color sources are images I was using for test. Is this correct?

[juergenschubert]

So the concept is that the scene timer is showing you the time until it starts with different items you configure in the:
["timer"] = { } section
I am puzzled about the ["Scene 2"] = {
["10:00"] time. What does this time gives you and what does it trigger?

[sebo-b]

Does it work for you? I have just downloaded the new OBS, started clean and the script works (on Mac). Attaching scene configuration (remove txt extension as github doesn't allow me to upload json)

test.json.txt

[juergenschubert]

Great that will explain it better. Thanks.
Do you also have a screen switcher included or what is the reason for have timer scene and Scene 2 in your example?

[sebo-b]

	["Scene 2"] = {
		["10:00"] = {"text_green", "img1_a","img2"},
		["11:00"] = {"text_green", "Image" },
	 	["12:00"] = {"text_green", "img2" },
	 	["20:00"] = {"", "img1_a"}
	 	},

what does mean is that when you switch to "Scene 2":

• up until 10:00 text_greenwill be populated (and shown) with a message from schedule_messages, img1_a and img2 will be shown while remaining sources (only Image in this case) will be hidden
• between 10:00 - 11:00 - text_greenwill be populated, Image will be shown, img1_a and img2 will be hidden
• between 11:00 - 12:00 - text_greenwill be populated, img2 will be shown, img1_a and Image will be hidden
• between 12:00 - 20:00 - no text will be populated, all items will be hidden except img1_a

[juergenschubert]

Working here on my mac.

[juergenschubert]

So you let Scene timer run and the time it is showing does illustrate the text in scene timer. The time when you switch to Scene 2 is the time you mention at ["Scene 2"] = {
["10:00"], correct?
Finally I think I got it. Thanks for updating a German :-)

[sebo-b]

It was a live event so I was switching scenes manually to have the full control. Two scenes are there as I had a 2-day event and one scene was used per day. However, you can imagine cases where you want to have a couple of scenes for the event and more control.

You can see it working on these videos, (of course most of the waiting is cut there) just scroll to time between chapters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X6e1eWBllE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0VRozA95bI

[juergenschubert]

Great thanks for that !

[sebo-b]

So you let Scene timer run and the time it is showing does illustrate the text in scene timer. The time when you switch to Scene 2 is the time you mention at ["Scene 2"] = {
["10:00"], correct?
Finally I think I got it. Thanks for updating a German :-)

Actually not - I switch to the scene before that time. The logic is following, you are finishing the first live presentation at 10:45 and you have a scheduled next live presentation at 11:00, so you switch to Scene 2 at 10:45 and the text is updated with:

• starting at 11:00
• starting in 5 minutes
• starting in 50 seconds
• starting soon
  When the next presenter is ready, due to any reason it can be for example at 11:01 you switch to the scene with the presenter. Watchers will see "starting soon" until you switch.

[glowinthedark]

@juergenschubert: as this plugin is serving a very specific use case; I borrowed the idea and some of the code, and made a more generic plugin which is configurable from the UI (the schedule itself is defined in the script source): https://github.com/glowinthedark/obs-conference-schedule-clock-countdown