Automagic OBS Installer & Configurator

[xelu]

While watching the whole "switching to mac" series, it was revealed that the LTT internal OBS setup guide has 3000+ words...

 

And since I've been tinkering with automating my own customized windows setup, I figured I can quickly adapt one of my scripts install AND CONFIGURE OBS with one click! (technically two clicks to run the .cmd file)

 

This should be able to take your fresh windows install PC from "no obs" to "obs installed and fully configured to your liking" within seconds (and more importantly, without the posibility of human error!)

AutoOBS.zip

[Mightysquirrl]

This is awesome, I'm definitely keeping this for my future setups. Thank you! 

[Smir]

I'm surprised they haven't added it to https://ninite.com/

[LogicalDrm]

For all our safety, it would be great if your would post code here for inspection or host it at public platform such as Github for same reasons. Asking others to run zipped script is bit suspicios while I'm sure your intentions are ok.

[xelu]

On 6/18/2025 at 11:24 AM, LogicalDrm said:

For all our safety, it would be great if your would post code here for inspection or host it at public platform such as Github for same reasons. Asking others to run zipped script is bit suspicios while I'm sure your intentions are ok.

The code is pretty simple and easy to follow since it's basically ~40 lines of code. checking those two script files before running them should make it super obvious that there's nothing malicious in that code

[LogicalDrm]

7 hours ago, xelu said:

The code is pretty simple and easy to follow since it's basically ~40 lines of code. checking those two script files before running them should make it super obvious that there's nothing malicious in that code

So why not posting it here? "you should and can" feels like excuse when you claim it's simple and takes about same time as replying. 

[xelu]

3 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

So why not posting it here? "you should and can" feels like excuse when you claim it's simple and takes about same time as replying. 

Here ^-^

https://chatgpt.com/share/685a5f6a-0d90-800f-964d-020c1d0071dc

[Avocado Diaboli]

1 hour ago, xelu said:

Here ^-^

https://chatgpt.com/share/685a5f6a-0d90-800f-964d-020c1d0071dc

 

How hard is it to paste the code here?

@echo off 
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

echo Installing OBS

net session >nul 2>&1
if %errorLevel%==0 (
    powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "%~dp0chocolatey.ps1" obs-studio

    echo Copying config files
    
    xcopy "%~dp0obs-studio" "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\obs-studio" /E /I /Y /Q

) else (
    echo Please make sure you run with Admin privileges
    echo -----------------------------------
)

 

# To Make run script as admin 
param([switch]$Elevated)

function Test-Admin {
    $currentUser = New-Object Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal $([Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent())
    $currentUser.IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltinRole]::Administrator)
}

if ((Test-Admin) -eq $false)  {
    if ($elevated) {
        # tried to elevate, did not work, aborting
    } else {
        Start-Process powershell.exe -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList ('-noprofile -noexit -file "{0}" -elevated' -f ($myinvocation.MyCommand.Definition))
    }
    exit
}

# To check if chocolaty is installed, if not install it
If(Test-Path -Path "$env:ProgramData\chocolatey") {
    Write-Output "Seems Chocolatey is installed"
    }
Else {
    Write-Output "Seems Chocolatey is not installed, installing now"
    Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
    choco feature enable -n allowGlobalConfirmation
    }

ForEach ($arg in $args)
{
    choco install $arg -y -limitoutput --ignore-checksum
}

Write-Output "-------------------------------------------"
Write-Output "---------------  ALL DONE!  ---------------"
Write-Output "-------------------------------------------"

 

And this is why it's important to look at this stuff, because you're not just installing OBS, but also Chocolatey. Not that that in and of itself is a problem, but you're being needlessly intransparent and obstinate.