GRASSROOTS BROADCAST
OBS GUIDE

Before you start

• OBS Studio 28 or newer. Older versions have no Docks menu for web pages and no WebSocket built in.
• Unzip the package anywhere you like. Right click the zip, Extract All, press Extract. Then open this page from that folder, not from inside the zip.
• Save your current setup first. In OBS: Scene Collection, Export. Nothing below deletes it.

1 Import the scenes

1. In OBS open Scene Collection, then Import.
2. Press the ... button, go to the folder above and pick Grassroots_Scene_Collection.json. Make sure it is ticked, then press Import.
3. Open Scene Collection again and choose Grassroots Broadcast.

Pick the file from inside the package folder. OBS uses the folder the file is in to find every screen, so it works wherever you unzipped it. Moved the folder later? Import it again from the new place.

Eight scenes, in the order of the night:

2 Pick your cams and the game

1. Cam 1 and Cam 2 are empty to start. Double click each one in the Caster Desk scene and pick a camera.
2. Casting alone? Click the eye next to Cam 2 to hide it, and leave the Cam 2 name empty in the dock.
3. SMITE 2 captures the game window (In Game and Post Game). Start the game once so OBS can find it.
4. Desktop Audio and Mic use your default devices. Change them by double clicking.

3 Add the dock

1. In OBS open the Docks menu (in some versions it is under View, then Docks) and choose Custom Browser Docks.
2. Type Grassroots Dock in Dock Name.
3. Paste this in URL:

4. Press Apply and close the window. Drag the dock where you want it. A tall dock works best.

A plain path to controller.html works too, like C:\Users\You\Desktop\Grassroots-Package\controller.html (leave out any " marks): when the dock opens inside OBS it moves itself to the right address.

4 Link the dock to OBS

This is what lets the dock switch scenes for you, so do not skip it.

1. In OBS open Tools, WebSocket Server Settings. Tick Enable WebSocket server and press Apply.
2. Press Show Connect Info and copy the Server Password.
3. In the dock open OBS LINK, paste the password and press Link OBS. The chip at the top turns to OBS linked.

The dock remembers it and links again by itself next time.

5 Running a match

The top of the dock is your remote: what is on air, one big NEXT button that always shows the next scene, and a button for every scene. Below it, the steps of the night in order.

• SET UP (once): both team names, logos if you have them, the series length, the tournament name and your casters. Teams are remembered, so next time just type the name.
• 1 Starting Soon: press 5, 10 or 15 min for a countdown. When it ends, Autopilot moves to the Caster Desk.
• 2 Caster Desk: say hello, then press NEXT.
• 3 Picks and bans: type each god as it locks in and press Enter. The dock knows the order. The first god switches to the Draft, and 20 seconds after the last pick it moves to In Game.
• 4 In Game: when the game ends, press the big button for the team that won. That adds the point, shows Post Game, then Victory, then goes back to the Caster Desk. Pressed the wrong one? Undo the last result.
• Next game: from the Caster Desk press NEXT. The draft clears itself and the game number moves on.
• 6 Be Right Back: press 2, 5 or 10 min. When the time is up the dock goes back where you were.
• 7 Thanks for Watching: once a team has won the series, NEXT offers it.

Autopilot shows each switch in the dock a few seconds before it happens. Press Stay here to cancel one, or turn Autopilot off and use NEXT yourself. Performance mode (in OBS LINK) stops all movement on the screens for slower PCs.

6 The stinger

Grassroots Stinger is already the scene transition: rounded bars in violet, cream, green and gold slide across, a round badge pops in the middle, then the bars slide off. It has its own whoosh and pop.

If it ever goes missing: in Scene Transitions press +, pick Stinger, choose media\GR_Stinger.webm from the package and set Transition Point to 520 milliseconds.

Fixes

1. Open Scene Collection and make sure Grassroots Broadcast is the one ticked.
2. Did OBS show a Missing Files box? The scene file was picked from somewhere else, like Downloads. Do step 1 again and pick the file from inside the package folder.
3. In OBS open Settings, Advanced. Under Sources untick Enable Browser Source Hardware Acceleration, press OK and restart OBS.
4. Still black? Press this button. It makes a scene file with the full address of this folder written in. Import that one (it is in your Downloads) and pick the newest Grassroots Broadcast.

Make a scene file for this folder