OBS Notification

Get notifications on your desktop screen after successful OBS events

Events:

• OBS_FRONTEND_EVENT_REPLAY_BUFFER_SAVED
• OBS_FRONTEND_EVENT_STREAMING_STARTED
• OBS_FRONTEND_EVENT_STREAMING_STOPPED
• OBS_FRONTEND_EVENT_RECORDING_STARTED
• OBS_FRONTEND_EVENT_RECORDING_STOPPED

Important

Notification will not work if you have app open in fullscreen mode

For example in games, make sure to use a borderless window instead of fullscreen mode

Installation

Note

Tested only on Windows 10

Copy repo with git clone or just Download ZIP to folder you want

Windows

1. Download SDL3 and SDL_TTF3 (*-win32-x64.zip or *-win32-x86.zip depending on your system)

2. Extract SDL3.dll and SDL3_ttf.dll from archives and save them in lib/resources folder

Linux and macOS

Get binary files for your OS:

• libSDL3.so and libSDL3_ttf.so for linux
• libSDL3.dylib and libSDL3_ttf.dylib for macOS

Configuration

Dependencies settings

lib/get_dependencies.lua file defines default dependency settings for each OS

If necessary, you can change these settings

Notification window config

lib/config.lua file defines default notification window config

Add to OBS

OBS > Tools > Scripts, click on + button, find folder with saved project and select lib/notification.lua