OBS is not loading browser source for overlay expert
Hello. I've been using overlayExpert for a while and occasionally it will go down or have connection issues, sometimes 5 mins other times I need to log back in or confirm changes, ect. Tonight it just will not load. I am using OBS 30.2.3 as it is the most recent stable version. I have re-started my pc and the software several times, logged in and out on my laptop to the web-browser editor - and that works fine - as well as edited & saved changes to the design, I even tried removing it and adding again fresh in OBS and still nothing with load. I completed the steps for help through OBS, turning off acceleration, refreshing cache and restart....
.. and now I am here.. because it still will not load. I was supposed to start 1 hr and 38 mins ago. It worked fine last night.
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is it still giving issues?
Yes it is still not loading.
if I double-click refresh while the source line is highlighted (overlayexperts browser source) the bounding box preview will highlight grey. that's the only thing it will do. Other suggestions to check.?
is there another browser source you can test, cause its working perfectly fine on meld for me
I use several overlays I created on overlay expert, each having a different url - none of them will load. The other browser sources I have in the collection are working fine, including streamlabs streamboss, leaderboards, and twitch url sources for alerts and those work fine. just ran another test. It just will not load Overlay Expert.
okay this will have to be looked at by @Marc when he has some free time
@kBayyyK did you try “Refresh cache of current page” in the browser source properties in OBS?
yes
What’s your Twitch username and the name of the overlay that doesn’t work?
Also, does your overlay work when you put your browser source URL in Chrome?
idk if it works in chrome because I use edge to edit them through your website and OBS to display the overlay as a browser source link..
My twitch handle @kBayyyK
The problem is with every overlay using overlay expert on any collection in obs. So, I guess, to name one because none work - Easter_1080p_StreamOverlay
Does your OBS source URL work in Edge?
yes
Hmm it seems to be working for me
<< snipped screenshot of overlay working in OBS >>
maybe something got corrupted on your obs, save your projects on obs and try reinstalling obs again
Yes this might be similar to https://discord.com/channels/183961840928292865/1395116807936933982. In that issue, we found that the “Refresh cache of current page” in OBS doesn't really work and you may need to reinstall.
please remove the preview of my overlay. It is not necessary to display that for the purpose of debugging.
If the only option is the one I desperately wanted to avoid - I'll do that later. I'm on overnights; and I'm not uninstalling obs without creating a back up of some kind for all my settings and collections because literally everything else is still functioning fine. - "It might fix the problem" is not a solid answer and might cause more problems for me.
@kBayyyK if you google "obs browser source not refreshing", there are tens-to-hundreds of results from the OBS Forum, YouTube, Reddit, etc., of people describing your issue of some browser sources just not working while others still do.
Since the browser source URL still works in Edge, the problem might be with OBS so you may want to reach out to them to see if there is a solution that does not involve reinstalling OBS 🙏
to debug an issue we need to be able to reproduce the issue otherwise we are working blind to fix the issue, uninstalling something and reinstalling is similar to as if you was to turn something off and back on again, there could be corrupted files that are preventing somethings from working and not others.