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[Addon] A lightweight OBS HTML overlay powered by showmethekey-cli #108

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@denizkose

Hi @AlynxZhou and everyone!

First of all, a massive thank you for showmethekey!

I wanted to share a small companion tool I recently built. While your native GUI is great, I needed smth specifically for OBS in easy way.

To solve this, I created smtk-obs. It uses a tiny WS server that reads the JSON output from showmethekey-cli and broadcasts it to a bundled HTML frontend styled with Tailwind CSS. I created this tool for myself but i guess other also want smth like that.

Key features:

  • Ready to be used in OBS via browser source.
  • Automatically groups modifier keys together (e.g., Ctrl + Shift + T or Ctrl + L 🖱️).
  • Extremely lightweight.
  • Easily customizable via CSS.

For Arch Linux users, I've just published it to the AUR, so it can be installed seamlessly alongside your utility:

yay -S smtk-obs-git

Others use source: https://github.com/denizkose/smtk-obs

I just wanted to drop this here in case other creators are looking for a Wayland-native OBS overlay solution and don't want use x11 or winos. Thank you again for building the amazing core utility that made this possible!

Cheers,
Deniz

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