Feature Suggestion: Add Connection Status Indicator

[bassguy95]

Something as simple as a little red dot for no connection, green for connection, and perhaps yellow for error?

This would be super useful for quickly diagnosing problems with cameras.

[markusd1984]

Wouldn't most if not all people though have the camera as a source displayed in OBS and thus seeing the feed means the camera is working vs seeing no input?

[bassguy95]

Wouldn't most if not all people though have the camera as a source displayed in OBS and thus seeing the feed means the camera is working vs seeing no input?

Not if they are using a hardware mixer and ONLY using OBS for graphics and streaming.

IE, some running a Blackmagic with 3 cameras, using the program output to feed a capture card on a computer.

In this setup, there is no way to make each camera a separate source, as they're all the same source. I can't imagine this is an uncommon setup, as directly capturing multiple streams from a USB dongle is CPU intensive, as is capturing multiple streams from a PCI capture card.

Using a hardware mixer greatly reduces the load on the machine that's actually doing the streaming.

Same goes for audio inputs when you're mixing over 30 microphones placed around a school stadium. Way more practical to use a hardware mixer and feed a single stereo feed into OBS.

Also, this pertains specifically to VISCA control and seeing video doesn't mean VISCA is working, as evidenced by my other issue I've submitted. An HDMI or SDI video feed off my camera has nothing to do with the VISCA over IP not connecting properly.