Obsbot Tiny 4K: OSC controllable gimbal webcam

[mark_m]

Just wanted to share.
Purchased an Obsbot Tiny 4K Webcam

Works fine in Isadora as a webcam. In fact the picture quality is excellent.

It has AI tracking, which works fine on its auto modes - bit spooky that this thing follows you around the room! -  but what I didn't know until playing with it is that you can control a lot of the parameters via OSC, so I've been trying it out in Isadora, controlling the position of the camera on its gimbal via OSC.

It's a little primitive, and I'm still figuring it out, but it looks promising. Here are the OSC commands:
https://www.obsbot.com/explore...

[Armando]

Thanks ! It looks like a genius idea !

[DusX]

@mark_m said:

controlling the position of the camera on its gimbal via OSC

 How smooth is the movement when controlled by OSC?

[mark_m]

@dusx said:

<p> How smooth is the movement when controlled by OSC?</p>

Still figuring that out: its inbuilt AI tracking is great. Seems to ease in and ease out of physical camera movements, but I'm still trying to get the OSC working well.

 

[mark]

@mark_m

Looks very interesting. I see the "View Set" command, which sort of looks like you can give absolute Pan/Tilt/Zoom positions. Can you confirm that this is true? Have you tried it?

Best Wishes,
Mark

[mark_m]

@mark

I have just not had a chance to try it out properly. Am working on a touring show - currently in Athens (Greece not Georgia) - and didn’t bring it with me.

Obsbot are just kickstarting a new camera that looks more geared towards pro use: they’re aiming at the church market. Has NDI built in. A cheap PTZ camera would be a great thing. 

https://www.obsbot.com/event/t...

[mark_m]

just an update on OSC controls of the Tiny 4K: this seems to work much better than Obsbot’s own controller:

https://github.com/johnebgood/the-one-camera-controller