{"id":938,"date":"2021-01-16T00:37:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T05:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techministry.blog\/?p=938"},"modified":"2021-01-16T00:37:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T05:37:12","slug":"tally-arbiter-1-5-new-features-bug-fixes-and-support-for-more-tally-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"Tally Arbiter 1.5 &#8211; New Features, Bug fixes, and support for more tally clients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been a few months since a major release for Tally Arbiter, but I&#8217;ve been hard at work on it in my spare time. If you haven&#8217;t read about this software, you can read <a href=\"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/2020\/07\/01\/using-node-js-python-multiple-raspberry-pis-and-usb-lights-to-create-an-inexpensive-wireless-camera-tally-system-that-can-arbitrate-multiple-sources-simultaneously\/\">some past posts<\/a> on this blog about it. It&#8217;s free, open-source camera tally lights software that I developed to help churches around the world put on better productions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Today, Tally Arbiter 1.5 is officially released!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some highlights of the release:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The GUI has been revamped with all internal socket.io calls. The REST API still exists, but this will be more streamlined.<\/li><li>A Generic TCP Device Action has been added: Now you can send a custom TCP string or command to another network location whenever a camera enters or exits Program on your switcher, for example.<\/li><li>VMix Tally Protocol Emulation: If you&#8217;ve got a favorite tally client designed specifically for VMix, now you can use it with Tally Arbiter! It&#8217;s very simple &#8211; Tally Arbiter represents itself as a VMix source. You can even use the emulated VMix connection from Tally Arbiter as a source in another Tally Arbiter install! (Not sure why, but, you can!)<\/li><li>Devices can now have multiple addresses assigned from a single source. This helps if you really consider one Camera to be &#8220;on-air&#8221; whenever it&#8217;s used on Input 1 or Input 5 from the same source, for example.<\/li><li>Device Sources can now be linked on either the Preview Bus, the Program Bus, or both. This means that your Camera won&#8217;t be considered to be in Program unless it is in Program on ALL assigned sources. This is helpful for cases where you may have nested switchers.<\/li><li>Preview + Program mode added to the OSC Source Type<\/li><li>Some Device Source Addresses can now be chosen via a drop down list instead of manually typed in<\/li><li>Blackmagic VideoHub (all models) added as a tally source. You can choose which destinations are considered &#8220;on-air&#8221; destinations for both the Preview and Program bus.<\/li><li>The Companion client now supports reassigning of tally listener clients as a button press. This is useful if you want to have a tally light at a shader station; you can press a button on your stream deck to route a camera to your shader monitor and simultaneously reassign the tally light at the shader monitor to that camera, and now you know if that camera is on-air as you shade it!<\/li><li>A &#8220;Test Mode&#8221; has been added that cycles through tally states to test all tally outputs. Very helpful when you&#8217;re not actively in a show but want to verify everything is working!<\/li><li>Support for Roland VR-50HD-MKII as a tally source<\/li><li>The Producer page can now send messages to supported tally clients like the Web tally and M5StickC. Don&#8217;t have an intercom system? Use the chat to tell your camera op to zoom in!<\/li><li>The M5StickC Plus is now officially supported. And M5Stick clients will now retain their last used Device when they reboot or reconnect.<\/li><li>The M5 Atom Matrix is now also supported.<\/li><li>Various other bug fixes and improvements<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This release saw a lot more interaction from the community through Github issues (feature requests and bug reports), pull requests, and other contributions. It&#8217;s truly becoming a community project, which is awesome to see!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video to show most of this in action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tally Arbiter 1.5: support for VideoHub, VMix emulation, linked sources, new tally clients and more.\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zar6-x7hT4M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, you can get the latest code on Github: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/josephdadams\/TallyArbiter\">https:\/\/github.com\/josephdadams\/TallyArbiter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if someone you know needs tally lights for their production, tell them to go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallyarbiter.com\">tallyarbiter.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a few months since a major release for Tally Arbiter, but I&#8217;ve been hard at work on it in my spare time. If you haven&#8217;t read about this software, you can read some past posts on this blog about it. It&#8217;s free, open-source camera tally lights software that I developed to help churches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/?p=938\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tally Arbiter 1.5 &#8211; New Features, Bug fixes, and support for more tally clients&#8221;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techministry.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}