Remote Control.
Drive your local OBS Studio or Meld Studio straight from OverlayThing. Switch scenes, mute a mic, toggle a source, start a recording, all from a chat command, a dashboard button, or a hotkey link. You set everything up in the dashboard and never touch your streaming software again.
What it is
Remote Control connects your OverlayThing dashboard to the streaming software running on your machine. Once it is setup you (or your mod(s) of choice) can run actions like switch scene, mute, unmute audio, show or hide a source, and start or stop recording or streaming, without the streamer needing to do all the work.
You wire up those actions once in the dashboard, then fire each one three ways: a chat !command your community (or just your mods) can run, a button on the Remote Control page, or a hotkey URL you put on a Stream Deck or a keyboard macro. There is nothing to script and nothing to install beyond a single source in your streaming software.
Remote Control uses a tiny browser source that sits in your scene and renders completely blank. It talks to your OBS or Meld over their local connection and relays your dashboard's instructions to them. You never see it on stream.
Get connected
Pick the software you stream with and follow the short setup:
- Connect OBS Studio | add a dock or browser source, turn on the WebSocket, enter the port and password.
- Connect Meld Studio | add the blank source to every scene, no password needed.
Once a provider is connected, head to Bindings & triggers to wire up actions, and read Security & access before you put a URL on a Stream Deck.
It looks after itself
Remote Control reconnects on its own if OBS or Meld restarts or your connection drops, and it updates itself in the background when we ship improvements. You do not need to refresh anything or re-add the source.