Tag: blackmagic

ProTally 1.2.0 with Blackmagic ATEM support available

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I spent some time this past week writing and testing support for ProTally with Blackmagic ATEM switchers. I didn’t have one to develop with, and after posting on a discussion group about the software, a new friend sent me a unit to work on. Thanks again, Kyle!

Version 1.2.0 now supports:

  • Blackmagic ATEM switchers – it will auto discover any ATEM switchers on the network, or you can manually type in an IP Address as well
  • Ross Carbonite Black, Carbonite Black Solo, and Graphite switchers

And I now have a Windows release build in addition to a MacOS release build!

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It runs in the tray on Windows as well.
New tray icon!

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It now supports more device types!

You can download the binaries for free here: https://github.com/josephdadams/ProTally/releases/tag/v1.2.0

If the software is beneficial to you, drop me a line and let me know!

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Two Quick Updates

Posted on by techministryblog

Just two quick updates, if you are using my software.

First, I’ve added a couple more features to the Countdowns/Clock system. You can now have a custom name for each countdown, which is pretty helpful. And, the page now displays a progress bar/meter that shows how long until the next page refresh, which has been increased to 15 seconds.

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Second, my VideoHub custom panel for Dashboard will now auto detect how many inputs/outputs you have on your router, which is mainly used for building out the drop down lists of inputs and outputs to choose a route.

Hope this helps! You can get the latest versions on my Github repository.

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Controlling BlackMagic VideoHub from Ross Dashboard

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Here’s a quick post to share how to control your BlackMagic VideoHub from a Ross Dashboard Custom Panel.

If you have any BlackMagic VideoHub router, it comes with software that allows you to make routing changes over the network. It’s pretty simple and easy to use.

What you may not know is that it can also accept telnet commands by default over port 9990. This means you can control it from a command line, or by sending TCP messages.

Ross Dashboard has a built in function, rosstalk.sendMessage which is designed for sending simple TCP messages. Combine these two things together, and now you can have a button on your own custom panel where you can make a video route easily.

In Dashboard, create a new custom panel, and add a button to that panel.

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Under Tasks, click “Add”, and type in this code:


var command = "VIDEO OUTPUT ROUTING:\r\n";

var videoHub_address = "192.168.1.100";

var destination = 5;
var source = 25;

command = command + (destination -1) + " " + (source - 1) + "\r\n\r\n";

rosstalk.sendMessage(videoHub_address, 9990, command, null);

The router operates with zero based indexes, which means if your destination number is 5, for example, the router treats it internally as 4. So, this script just substracts those numbers internally before submitting the command to the router.

Happy routing!

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