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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon cpyarger

MIDI map does not save on Windows 10

Open megalon opened this issue 2 years ago • 7 comments

Platform

Operating system and version: Windows 10 Version 10.0.19044 Build 19044

OBS Studio version: 27.2.4

Expected Behavior

When I create a MIDI map through the Tools > Config > OBS Midi Settings, it should load this MIDI map the next time I launch OBS

Current Behavior

When I close and relaunch OBS, the MIDI map is blank. I also don't have any files in my obs-studio\plugin_config\obs-midi folder. It is completely empty.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Launch OBS
  2. Navigate to Tools > Config > OBS Midi Settings
  3. Map a few controls to my MIDI controller
  4. Test that the controls work correctly
  5. Close the config window
  6. Close OBS
  7. Relaunch OBS
  8. None of the mapped controls work anymore, and when I open the Tools > Config > OBS Midi Settings menu, the list of mapped controls is empty. image

Additional information

I am using a LIVID OhmRGB 64 MIDI controller. It works fine, and the MIDI map does work correctly, as long as I don't close OBS after I create it. It seems like the config files just aren't saving. Log file: 2022-03-19 18-43-47.txt

megalon avatar Mar 31 '22 19:03 megalon

You almost certainly have a scene collection name, or scene name or source name that is too long, or has unusual characters. There is a bug in obs-midi that causes the bindings to be corrupted.

kineticscreen avatar May 13 '22 12:05 kineticscreen

Thanks, that sounds frustrating to troubleshoot.

I ended up using OSC-for-OBS instead of obs-midi. I use a custom program written in Pure Data to interface with it. https://github.com/jshea2/OSC-for-OBS

For reference though, my longest source name is about 30 characters. And the only characters I use in my source / scene names are alpha numeric, space, and "-"

megalon avatar May 13 '22 21:05 megalon

Yeah that 30 character name would do it. Even the dash could be a problem. I had repeated issues on a recent show and just made everything incredibly short just to be safe, so I haven't worked out what the threshold is.

EDIT: oh wow, OSC for OBS sounds great. And I was integrating with Qlab so sounds like a much better solution.

kineticscreen avatar May 13 '22 22:05 kineticscreen

I am seeing this intermittently on Linux as well.

InfoSec812 avatar Jul 11 '22 15:07 InfoSec812

This has happened to me time and time again.. its beyond frustrating.. I most certainly use - in my collection names

gitagogaming avatar Aug 10 '22 02:08 gitagogaming

OBS recently updated to QT6 and so I will be doing another rewrite of things soon. My apologies for things taking so long, I currently am the only one working on obs-midi, and I just don't have the time or money to focus on it full time like I have in the past. If anyone wants to help out I would gladly appreciate contributors 😸

cpyarger avatar Aug 12 '22 03:08 cpyarger

@cpyarger I will try to take a look in the near future to see if I can isolate where the issue is occurring. I think I would like to see at the same time if there could be a simple path to add an "export" button as well. I will likely be early September before I have time though. Thanks again for all of you contributions here!

InfoSec812 avatar Aug 15 '22 12:08 InfoSec812