Rough setup for headless OBS

obs.sh

add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
apt-get update
apt-get install xorg obs-studio software-properties-common curl htop libmng2 qt5-image-formats-plugins xvfb -y

# enable X11 forwarding and X11DisplayOffset in here:
# X11Forwarding yes
# X11DisplayOffset 10
nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
service sshd restart

# OBS websockets install
wget https://github.com/obsproject/obs-websocket/releases/download/4.9.1/obs-websocket_4.9.1-1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i obs-websocket_4.9.1-1_amd64.deb

# inside putty SSH with X11 forwarding enabled
# I also have VcXsrv on windows up and running for X11
# if everything works, OBS should come up for ya.
obs

# testing
xvfb-run -s "-screen 0 640x480x24" obs --startstreaming

# firewall
ufw allow 22 
ufw allow 4444
ufw enable

# cat /etc/systemd/system/obs.service
[Unit]
Description=OBS
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0
[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
ExecStart=xvfb-run -s "-screen 0 640x480x24" obs --startstreaming

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target