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Connect Tevyr to Zoom

Put a Tevyr timer inside any Zoom meeting. There are two ways to do it — a quick screen share (no setup), or the professional path that makes Tevyr appear as its own webcam participant and stays visible even when others share their screens.

Method 1 — Share your screen

The simplest option. Anyone in a Zoom meeting can do this — no extra software needed. Best when you just want to flash the timer on a single laptop without any production setup.

  1. Open your Tevyr output link (Speaker, Audience, or any other output) in a browser tab.
  2. In Zoom, click Share Screen in the meeting toolbar.
  3. Pick the browser tab or window with the Tevyr output, and click Share.

That's it — your timer is now visible to everyone. The catch: Zoom only shows one screen share at a time, so the moment someone else shares slides or a video, your timer disappears. For talks, panels, or any production where the timer needs to stay on-screen the whole time, use Method 2.

Method 2 — Add Tevyr as a webcam (OBS Virtual Camera)

Use OBS Studio's Virtual Camera to make Tevyr appear as a real participant in the meeting — its own tile, its own name, always on. Because Zoom sees it as a webcam (not a screen share), the timer stays in the participant grid even when other people share slides or videos.

Setup takes about three minutes the first time. After that, joining a meeting as Tevyr is a one-click action.

Why bother with a virtual camera?

A virtual camera is a piece of software that pretends to be a webcam — instead of pulling video from your built-in camera, it pulls whatever you set up in OBS (in our case, the Tevyr output). Once it's running, every video tool on your machine treats it like a regular camera.

  • Timer stays visible in the participant grid — even when you or anyone else shares their screen.
  • No screen-share indicator bars overlapping the meeting view.
  • You can join the same Zoom call twice from one machine — once as yourself, once as the timer tile.
  • Reads as a polished production setup, not a hacked-together share.

You'll need

  • OBS Studio — free, open-source, runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
  • A Zoom account with the "Show a ‘Join from your browser’ link" setting enabled (one-time toggle, covered below).
  • One computer is enough — you'll join the call twice from the same machine. A second device works too if you prefer.

One-time setup in OBS

  1. Install and open OBS Studio. You can skip the Auto-Configuration Wizard the first time.
  2. In the Scenes panel (bottom-left), use the default scene or click + to create a new one — name it something like "Tevyr Timer".
  3. In the Sources panel, click + → Browser.
  4. Name the source (e.g., Tevyr) and click OK.
  5. In the Properties dialog, paste your Tevyr output URL (grab it from the Controller via Output Links → pick the output you want → copy the link). Set Width to 1280 and Height to 720 for a standard 16:9 frame. If you want Tevyr's audio chimes to come through Zoom, tick "Control audio via OBS". Click OK.
  6. Drag the corners of the browser source in the OBS preview so it fills the canvas (or position it however you prefer).
  7. In the Controls panel (bottom-right), click Start Virtual Camera. Leave OBS running in the background — Zoom will only see the camera while OBS is open.
Step 1 · OBS→Step 2 · Zoom
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Add Tevyr as a Browser source in OBS
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One-time Zoom setting: enable browser join

To add Tevyr as a second participant from the same machine, you'll join the meeting from a browser tab. Zoom hides the "Join from your browser" link by default, so flip it on once:

  1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
  2. Go to Settings → In Meeting (Advanced).
  3. Toggle on "Show a ‘Join from your browser’ link".

Join the meeting as Tevyr

  1. Start your Zoom meeting from the desktop app the way you normally would — this is you joining as yourself.
  2. In the meeting toolbar, click Participants → Invite (or just Invite in the bottom toolbar) and click Copy Invite Link.
  3. Open a fresh tab in Chrome, Firefox, or Edge and paste the invite link.
  4. On the launch page, scroll to the bottom and click Join from Your Browser.
  5. Enter a recognisable name like "Tevyr Timer" so participants know what the tile is.
  6. When the browser asks for camera access, allow it. Click the camera dropdown and select OBS Virtual Camera — the preview should switch to your Tevyr output.
  7. Click Join with Video.

Tevyr now appears as a separate participant in the meeting. It stays visible in the participant grid even when someone else shares their screen — perfect for keeping speakers and producers on-pace through long calls, webinars, panels, and remote workshops.

Same trick works in Teams, Meet, Webex

OBS Virtual Camera shows up as a webcam in any video tool — Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, Riverside, Restream, StreamYard, and more. The OBS setup steps above are the same; the only thing that changes is where you pick the camera in the meeting tool's join screen.

Need a screen-share-only flow on a guest's laptop with no OBS access? Method 1 above still works — keep the Tevyr browser tab visible and share that window.