Python Demo for Extra Life API

• Stream Date: November 5th, 2022
• Python to OBS functioning!
• Websockets. What are they? 
  • HTTP is unidirectional where the client sends the request and the server sends the response
  • Websocket data is continuously pushed/transmitted into the same connection
• OBS has a built in local server that you can establish a websocket with another application
• Python module obswebsocket 
  • Provides a wrapper for all the OBS websocket functions
  • Can basically control anything in OBS it seems
  • Documentation is a bit lacking and module is out of date
• Build animations and transitions in OBS and modify them with the python connection
• Building a donation progress tracker? 

Signal switching tips

• Maneuvering signals around your design
• Methods of switching on and off portions of your circuit 
  • Series
  • Shunt
  • Series-shunt
• Relays
• DG series of analog switches 
  • Virtually every configuration
  • single, dual, quad SPSTs and SPDTs, 4:1 and 8:1 multiplexers
  • Many have separate control and signal voltage inputs

Estimating project time

• Follow up from slack
• Josh Pieper - Doomcheck
• Takes in a text file and uses probability distribution to estimate timing for projects