SimpleCue
ReleasedA platform-independent audio cue player for theatre and live events — cues, fades, links, loops and vamps, with a per-cue output routing matrix. Driven by OSC, MIDI, MSC, MMC, Art-Net or sACN.
Open tools for live events, broadcast & theatre
The software our
industry never got
round to writing.
Stoatworks Labs is a working AV technician building the tools that should already exist — frequency coordination that speaks every format, switcher fleets you configure all at once, a cue player that costs nothing. Free, open source, and shipped from the same road cases you use.
- Open-source tools
- 24
- Open boards
- 5
- Licence
- MIT
- Accounts required
- 0
Where to start
01
Software
24 open-source projects across audio, video, RF, content and show control. Filter by discipline, sort how you like, and go straight to the repo.
Browse the software02
Hardware
Five open boards for the gaps nobody fills: a daisy-chained DMX node, an IP and USB to CAN bus converter for d&b systems, a video mainframe, an FPGA mixing console, and a 10G repeater in a coupler shell.
See the boards03
Services
Managed event content on Nextcloud, and a DIT offload workflow that gets ISO recordings off the switcher and into the edit while the session is still running.
What we run04
About
One AV technician, a laptop in a road case, and a long list of problems that only ever get solved at 02:00. Here is how the work actually gets made.
The short versionSelected work
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SRT Router
ReleasedA broadcast-router-style crosspoint for SRT: any number of inputs and outputs, each output live-switchable to one source, added and removed at runtime from a web UI. Pure relay, no transcode. NDI transport included.
Presentation Commander — Server
In developmentMaster control for a presentation room: a real-time NDI video matrix router, layered scene compositor, presenter-notes hub, and a Control Surface with a JSON-RPC automation API.
File Drop Batch
ReleasedA Nextcloud app for production teams: build a show from a CSV, the browser or a live Google Sheet, and it creates a folder and upload-only drop link per session, emails each presenter, and can create per-theatre accounts scoped to their own folder.
See them running
The channelShort videos, one per tool. Everything on screen is the real application running its real demo data — nothing is mocked up or reconstructed in a design tool.
Support us
Free to use. Not free to make.
We use AI heavily and say so openly — it is why one technician can ship this much. It does not make the work free. Every project still costs hardware, subscriptions, test rigs and a great many unpaid hours.