Installed input overlay but inputs won't show up.

[Arvidetc]

Describe the bug
Input overlays show up on the preview but inputs would not show up in the preview.

To Reproduce
Unzip, paste files in obs studio's file location, replace files, used presets shipped with zip file, use input overlays as sources on a scene.

Expected behavior
To function properly as the video indicated

Screenshots

Additional information:

• input-overlay.v4.8b.win32.64
• https://obsproject.com/tools/analyzer?log_url=https%3A%2F%2Fobsproject.com%2Flogs%2FtLoUZA-2dVfRKuTc

Additional context
N/A

[univrsal]

what keyboard layout are you using?

[convict-git]

I'm having the same issue.
Using OBS Studio 26.1.1 (Linux)
I'm able to add the source for input overlay but the keys are not captured by the preview.
I can assure that libuiohook.so is present in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 and input-overlay.so was successfully loaded as module.

UPD:
I tried testing the build of libuiohook by running the demo which works in itself. I can also see libUIOHook in obs logs which means it's loaded there.

UPD2
Seems like running obs with sudo obs worked. Any reason for it requiring sudo permissions?

[univrsal]

idk are you running obs through flatpak or snap?

[convict-git]

No. Neither.
I did the usual download from sudo apt-get install obs-studio. Is it not the recommended way? I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.

[univrsal]

what version of libuiohook are you using?

[convict-git]

I'm building libuiohook from kwhat/libuiohook as mentioned in their README. (The branch is set to 1.2 by default)

The build is successful and I verified it by running the demo provided which works fine.
Till this point, I cannot see Input Overlay as a source in obs.

After the build, the dist/lib has the following content.

I copy all the three .so files i.e. libuiohook.so libuiohook.so.1 libuiohook.so.1.2.0 to /lib, /lib64, /lib64/lib, /usr/lib, /usr/lib64, /usr/lib64/lib (Yes, all possible combinations!)

At this point, I still cannot see input-overlay as a source in obs.

However, if I copy /lib/libuiohook.so to /lib/libuiohook.so.0 and similarly /usr/lib/libuiohook.so to /usr/lib/libuiohook.so.0 (Note .0 wasn't present initially), I can now see Input Overlay as source in obs. I can successfully add presets/wasd/wasd.png as an Overlay image file and presets/wasd/wasd-full.ini as a
Layout config file and in fact see an amazing wasd keyboard overlay on my screen.

BUT the keyboard overlay doesn't show key presses yet.
However, if I run obs with sudo, $ sudo obs, the keyboard overlay, does in fact shows the key presses and work normally.

(Though I'm unable to get sound in sudo mode so can't work with that most probably because of permissions of pulseaudio that asks for system-wide permissions. Also, a lot of other things break in obs when running as sudo so it's not an option to go for)

I'd appreciate your help in fixing it out.

[univrsal]

Idk, what your setup is. Can you try installing this version? The input-overlay folder goes into ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins and you need to use the presets created with the build. That version ships libuiohook, if it still doesn't work it's something on your side

[convict-git]

Idk, what your setup is. Can you try installing this version? The input-overlay folder goes into ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins and you need to use the presets created with the build. That version ships libuiohook, if it still doesn't work it's something on your side

I'll try that. Thanks a lot!

[convict-git]

Idk, what your setup is. Can you try installing this version? The input-overlay folder goes into ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins and you need to use the presets created with the build. That version ships libuiohook, if it still doesn't work it's something on your side

@univrsal Yes, that indeed worked like a charm! Thanks a lot!

[convict-git]

Is there any way I can get the full qwerty preset for JSON kind of configuration? Or is it possible to port the .ini to .json?

[univrsal]

currently not

[univrsal]

I've tried the latest pre release build and can't reproduce this. I don't know if it's an issue with the old version, but somebody that had the issue could try the pre-release and see if it's still an issue

[simbark1999]

I'm on the latest pre-release build and using OBS 27.0.0-rc4 w/ admin privs but I'm having the same issue. Overlay shows up just fine but no inputs are registered whatsoever. I can't get gamepad, mouse, or keyboard inputs to show up. On Windows 10 btw.

[univrsal]

I'm on the latest pre-release build and using OBS 27.0.0-rc4 w/ admin privs but I'm having the same issue. Overlay shows up just fine but no inputs are registered whatsoever. I can't get gamepad, mouse, or keyboard inputs to show up. On Windows 10 btw.

Can you post your obs studio log?

[takaliuang]

Is there any way I can get the full qwerty preset for JSON kind of configuration? Or is it possible to port the .ini to .json?

I also can't find the .json file in the folder preset, only .ini. Any solution?

[univrsal]

Is there any way I can get the full qwerty preset for JSON kind of configuration? Or is it possible to port the .ini to .json?

I also can't find the .json file in the folder preset, only .ini. Any solution?

Download the pre-release

[takaliuang]

Is there any way I can get the full qwerty preset for JSON kind of configuration? Or is it possible to port the .ini to .json?

I also can't find the .json file in the folder preset, only .ini. Any solution?

Download the pre-release

Got it, installed the 2019 version...it worked well as far

[simbark1999]

Not sure what I did but I'm getting inputs to show now. Maybe my computer just needed a restart. I may have mixed-and-matched some files from different release versions without realizing it.

[khimaros]

Idk, what your setup is. Can you try installing this version? The input-overlay folder goes into ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins and you need to use the presets created with the build. That version ships libuiohook, if it still doesn't work it's something on your side

FWIW, this build seems to have expired and more recent CI builds don't include the libuiohook.so

[khimaros]

for anyone using wayland, this is probably a blocker kwhat/libuiohook#100

[univrsal]

Idk, what your setup is. Can you try installing this version? The input-overlay folder goes into ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins and you need to use the presets created with the build. That version ships libuiohook, if it still doesn't work it's something on your side

FWIW, this build seems to have expired and more recent CI builds don't include the libuiohook.so

They should, but you should use the pre-release instead.
https://github.com/univrsal/input-overlay/releases

[RKProgram]

i'm on obs 28.0.1 and on the version 5.0.0 and i have admin privileges but i cant get any inputs to show
https://obsproject.com/logs/qtQYdy-mKwVT-t1G