Core

What this page is

Settings → Core is the page of the local server the application runs. It shows where things live — server address, database, logs, modules — and holds the two switches that belong to that server: detailed logs, and access from your network.

How to set it up

1. Open Settings → Core in the sidebar. Nothing here has to be saved.
2. Local API Server Address is at the top. OBS loads widgets from here, and platform sign-in replies come back here.
3. The next line is Database file. Settings, tokens and statistics are stored on your computer, in that one file.
4. Logs folder has an Open button beside the path — it opens that folder on your computer. Logs are kept for 10 days — support asks for them when something breaks.
5. Detailed logs is the switch under the logs folder. It adds every bus event and every request to the log. Support asks for this when the ordinary log was not enough. Leave it off the rest of the time: over a long stream it grows the file to tens of megabytes. Turn it on, reproduce the problem, then turn it off again.
6. Modules folder has an Open button of its own next to the path.
7. Access from your local network — the switch that lets another computer in the house open your overlays. Off by default: a home network is not only the second PC, it is the phones of everyone who visits. Only a device holding the link gets in, and the link carries a secret key. Switch it on and the address of this machine appears in small type under it — that is where the browser source on the other computer goes. Links copied earlier keep working: they already carry that address and the key.
8. Change the key appears under the switch once access is on. It issues a new key and asks first, in a window titled Change the access key?, because the price is paid on the other computer: every overlay link already pasted into OBS there stops working and has to be copied again from its widget page — the guide "Overlays in OBS" says where that button is. On this computer nothing changes: overlays here are let in by address, not by the key. Change the key when it may have been seen — on stream, or in a screenshot you sent somewhere.
9. At the bottom: App version and Run mode. Run mode reads either Regular or Development.

What it cannot do

All four paths are read-only. You cannot type a different path here, move the database or the logs somewhere else, or change the server address — the page reports where things are, it does not move them. There is no Open button for the database file or for the server address: only the logs folder and the modules folder have one.

Access from your local network has no list of allowed devices and no password field: the only key is the one written into the overlay link, and you neither pick it nor read it here. The switch and the key are independent — turning access off leaves the key alone, and a new key leaves the switch on.

Appearance settings are elsewhere — Living background, for instance, sits on Settings → Interface.