{"id":307,"date":"2019-03-28T18:16:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T18:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techministry.blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2019-03-28T18:16:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T18:16:04","slug":"controlling-a-roland-v-60hd-video-switcher-with-a-stream-deck-and-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Controlling a Roland V-60HD video switcher with a Stream Deck and Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, I was contacted through the blog by Tony Perez, longtime staff member at Calvary Chapel<\/a> in Las Vegas. He asked if I could help their team to control their Roland V-60HD switcher through a stream deck using Companion.<\/p>\n

God has given me a heart and passion to be a resource for other churches, so I jumped right in and started reading the TCP protocol specification for their video switcher. The protocol was simple enough, basically just a telnet protocol to send parameters with a terminating character to designate the end of the command.<\/p>\n

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This is the Roland V-60HD video switcher.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had to take a sick day recently to take care of one of my kids who had an ear infection, so while he was resting, I sat down and prototyped a module for Companion to control their video switcher.<\/p>\n

Tony and I then set a time to talk on the phone and do a TeamViewer session, and after doing some slight debugging, we had it working!<\/p>\n

The protocol is pretty straightforward. For example, with this command:<\/p>\n

\\u0002CUT;<\/pre>\n
The switcher will perform a cut between the current on-air source and the preview source. “\\u0002” is the ASCII control code “02H” which tells the switcher that a command code is coming. “CUT” is the command , and the semicolon terminates the command.<\/p>\n
We were able to implement every video-related operation and some of the system operations that seemed necessary to control remotely from a Stream Deck.<\/p>\n
So, with just a few short hours of work, now his team can control their Roland V-60HD video switcher from anywhere on their network! This will be a great help and add to their flexibility.<\/p>\n
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You can see some of the options available for the module in this screenshot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
This was a fun project to get to help with, especially since I had not ever seen or used this particular video switcher before, and I was able to help a ministry on the other side of the country.<\/p>\n
Here are some pictures of the module in action!<\/p>\n\n
The module is open-source and part of the Companion<\/a> project now, so anyone else who has this switcher can jump in and use it too! You can view the module code here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A couple of weeks ago, I was contacted through the blog by Tony Perez, longtime staff member at Calvary Chapel in Las Vegas. He asked if I could help their team to control their Roland V-60HD switcher through a stream deck using Companion. God has given me a heart and passion to be a resource … Continue reading “Controlling a Roland V-60HD video switcher with a Stream Deck and Companion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,50,51,57],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ministry","tag-production","tag-programming","tag-roland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}