Failed to find an ongoing OBS recording

[pyrannial]

Hi there. Just checking whether the leafac_OBS - Toggle Recording.lua action should work with obs-websocket 5.0.0-alpha2 from https://github.com/Palakis/obs-websocket/releases/tag/5.0.0-alpha2 and OBS 27.1.0-rc3 ?

I am getting the following error message:

Failed to find an ongoing OBS recording. Did you start an OBS recording through REAPER?

I have checked the following:

• with a password and without
• ensuring a directory exists before setting it as the destination
• destination with and without slash (ie. MEDIA/VIDEO and VIDEO)
• using localhost or the local ip address of the device (ie. 192.168.0.4)

It may be a firewall issue but I wanted to check with you before digging deeper into that possibility.

Thanks for your help

[pyrannial]

I downgraded to obs-websocket-4.9.1 and it works so perhaps your script won't work with the latest version (or the latest version doesn't work with your script :-) )

As a sidenote, I had to modify another setting in OBS for it to work for me. Although I was creating an .mkv file, the setting in OBS was Custom Output (FFmpeg) in the advanced output setttings for recordings. The script wouldn't work until I changed this setting to Standard.

[leafac]

Thanks for testing and for the detailed report. I’ll update the script to work with the latest versions in the near future. I’m glad you got it to work in the interim.

I didn’t know about the Custom Output (ffmpeg) issue—I’ll look into it.

[janneoksanen]

Hi, I'm having this issue with OBS version 28.0.2 where web sockets are integrated into the release and are no longer a plugin. Thus I can't downgrade to an earlier version of the plugin.

[leafac]

@janneoksanen The REAPER ↔ OBS integration doesn’t support OBS 28 yet. As you may know, this was a major update to OBS and third-party plugins are still adapting to it. You should expect to see an update from me soon…