Companion — BlackMatrix
BlackMatrix routing on a Stream Deck
What it does
A Bitfocus Companion module for BlackMatrix, so you can route a fleet of Blackmagic ATEM switchers from a Stream Deck: any source to any aux, ME bus, keyer input, SuperSource box or multiview window, plus fleet-wide salvos and destination locks.
The generated presets make an X-Y router panel rather than one button per crosspoint: press a destination, then a source. A couple of hundred buttons cover a fleet that would otherwise need tens of thousands, and the selection lives in this Companion, so two Companions never fight over a pending destination.
- X-Y panel presets, with the armed destination and its current source shown before you take
- Direct one-button crosspoints where a button should mean one thing
- Fleet-wide salvos, with per-crosspoint refusals reported by name
- Destination locks held per IP address, shared with BlackMatrix's own browser UI
- A live source label per destination, so a page reads as a monitor wall
- Feedback for a hardware Videohub panel attached to the same switcher
Where it stands
Tested by a harness driving its own code against a pretend crosspoint server. It has never been loaded into Companion, and never run against a live ATEM fleet.