Making Physical 'Mute' Indicators for Streaming

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Published on August 3, 2020 4:15:58 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ps62ZwuEA

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A friend of mine always forgets to unmute his microphone when streaming, so I decided to make some physical mute indicators for OBS Studio.

I wrote a Python script that runs inside of the OBS scripting console and listens for mute/unmute events for a given audio source. When the 'mute' state of an audio channel is changed, the script sends that state over serial to a microcontroller. The microcontroller then drives a physical indicator alerting the user.

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More Information: https://www.partsnotincluded.com/making-obs-mute-indicator/
Code Downloads: https://github.com/dmadison/OBS-Mute-Indicator

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