Setup and monitoring
In the password-protected admin every change applies at once, without a restart: a new role, a new key, a new group. Meanwhile the Live view shows who is online, who talks to whom and who listens to whom.
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A role is a position – Director, Camera 1 – with its own audio profile, volume, PIN and color. A group (party line) is a shared line: whoever talks into it is heard by its members; per member you choose whether they listen by default.
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On the Live page talkers are columns and listeners rows. Open paths, signal, priority, fixed routes and feeds are all marked, and one click closes an open path – just as the panel would.
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The whole setup – roles, groups, keys, routes and system settings – saves under a name and loads back any time. News, sport, concert: each gets its own.
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Who talked to whom, who called, who connected and when – it all goes into the log, and into daily files. If the audio engine slips, that is written here too, in plain words.
An always-open path without a key: the sound engineer always hears the director, for example.
A panel can take another’s keys with the roles swapped, and Add all fills one in a single click.
Roles, feeds and groups get their own color on key icons, the role picker and the lists.
Every save is live immediately; connected panels follow without a restart.
Step by step
There is no “apply and restart”: the server takes a new role, key or route on the fly, and the panels show it at once. What only applies to new connections – the bitrate, for example – the admin points out.
Whoever has the admin password. From the internet it must be at least 12 characters, and after ten failed tries that address is locked out for 15 minutes. External controllers use their own API tokens, not the password.
No. The change applies at once and the panels follow. A key’s state (talk on, listening) stays with the key; if you change or remove a key, its talk is released.
The whole configuration: roles, groups, feeds, keys, fixed routes and the system settings of the Settings page. The machine’s own settings (ports, certificate, password, tokens) are not part of it.
Talk on a tap or while held, listen, tally, call, Reply and Kill – on big, legible keys, on a phone too.
A Stream Deck plugin, an HTTP API with tokens and OSC: press keys, mute, call, load presets, set ON AIR.
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