Companion — Presentation Commander Server
ReleasedBitfocus Companion module: route outputs, recall scenes, blackout, send stage notes and drive next/previous slide from a Stream Deck.
Discipline
Companion Modules
Our applications, on a Stream Deck button.
Bitfocus Companion is how a great many show-control surfaces actually get built: a Stream Deck, a rack of buttons and a piece of open-source software in the middle that knows how to talk to everything else in the room. A module is the piece that teaches it one more application.
Eleven of ours have one. They are small on purpose — each is a connection to an existing control interface the application already exposes, so there is nothing extra to install on the application side and nothing to go out of step when the app updates.
16 projects · 15 with builds to download
The modules
One per application, all MIT, all released.
Companion — Presentation Commander Client
ReleasedBitfocus Companion module for OSC control of the Presentation Commander client.
Companion — PDF Presenter
ReleasedBitfocus Companion module for OSC control of PDF Presenter.
More modules
Everything else with a module.
Companion — animATEM
ReleasedBitfocus Companion module for animATEM.
Companion — Atem Overseer
ReleasedBitfocus Companion module for Atem Overseer fleets.
Companion — BlackMatrix
ReleasedBitfocus Companion module for the BlackMatrix crosspoint router.
Companion — caspar-AV
ReleasedBitfocus Companion module for caspar-AV shows.
Companion — flock
ReleasedBitfocus Companion module for flock decoder fleets.
Companion — Kestrel
ReleasedBitfocus Companion module for Kestrel — drive region-to-output routing from a Stream Deck.
Companion — Mynah
Field testingBitfocus Companion module for Analog Way LivePremier, driven by Mynah command syntax. One action takes any command, and a library of well over a hundred presets, plus a command builder, populates a Stream Deck with memory recalls, takes and stores.
Companion — openRCS
Field testingBitfocus Companion module for Analog Way LiveCore and Midra video processors.
Companion — RFutils
ReleasedBitfocus Companion module for RFutils monitoring.
Companion — SimpleCue
ReleasedBitfocus Companion module for OSC control of SimpleCue.
Companion — srt-router
ReleasedBitfocus Companion module for the srt-router crosspoint.
Companion — WebLinked
ReleasedBitfocus Companion module for WebLinked.
companion-play
In developmentA replacement operating system for the BirdDog PLAY that turns it into a Bitfocus Companion appliance: the Companion server, its admin interface on the unit's own HDMI output, and USB control surfaces plugged into its port. It is not a patch — it replaces the firmware, so the unit stops being an NDI decoder until it is flashed back. Only two partitions change, which leaves both recovery paths intact. 808 Companion modules ship in the image, so it works with no network on first boot.
Install these as developer modules
None of these are in the official Companion module store — each is installed as a developer module, by pointing Companion at the checked-out repo. That is a distribution status rather than a quality one, and it is the first thing you need to know, so it is here rather than three clicks in.
It also means you can read exactly what a module does before you let it near a show. They are a few hundred lines each: the actions, the feedbacks and the variables, and a connection to a documented interface.
Why they are so thin
Because the control interface belongs to the application, not to the module. The presenter apps listen for OSC on their own ports and the master server exposes a JSON-RPC automation API over HTTP — those are the real interfaces, they are documented on the applications' own pages, and anything that can speak them can drive the app. The module is a convenience, not a dependency. Nothing here is the only way in.
The practical consequence is that a module cannot break the app it drives, and that if you would rather drive it from QLab, a show-control processor or a script, you are not locked out. The modules simply save you writing that yourself for the most common surface in the industry.
The applications they drive
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