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A browser dashboard for watching and controlling a fleet of Blackmagic ATEM switchers, styled after the BMD multiviewer. There's a desktop tray app version too.

Control for the ATEM Mini Pro and Extreme ISO, plus something the hardware doesn't give you: a SuperSource/DVE preview, put together in software from the switcher's own multiview, captured over UVC. There's a touchscreen operator UI and a Companion module.

A crosspoint router matrix over a fleet of Blackmagic ATEM switchers: sources across the top, destinations down the side, one click to route. It also serves the Videohub Ethernet Protocol, one server per switcher, so hardware router panels, Companion and a media server's own matrix driver all get at the same crosspoints. On a redundant rig it watches the main media server and fires a salvo when it stops answering.

Video scopes laid out around a live ATEM multiview. Waveform, vectorscope, histogram, false colour, zebras and focus peaking on any multiview window, program and preview included, with each source named live from the switcher's own multiviewer config. There's a desktop app and a browser build.

Sets up a whole DaVinci Resolve project, with theatre and day bins, a timeline per session, imported media and smart-bin recipes, from the same session CSV that drives the file-drop workflow.

Adds the panels an Analog Way switcher's own Web RCS doesn't have, for LivePremier and, since 0.6.0, Midra 4K and Alta 4K too. There's an Edit page (the Screens / Aux. layout with one row instead of two), so you can program a look off both buses and save it straight into a real memory. There's a VPU resource map, a lighting-desk command line, a theatre cue stack, a memories list across every bank, and a layer-properties panel built from the device's own catalogue, with names for layers the switcher can't hold. Layer groups move as one, with a send-to menu on every source card. Routing goes through an external Videohub, Lightware or Turtle AV matrix, or a placeholder of one so you can build the show before the rack turns up. A Bitfocus Companion can live on the same address, its buttons pressable from a cue or a memory recall. Then there's Pitch Compensation for mixed-pitch LED walls, OSC input, cues fired from timecode, MIDI control-surface mapping, HyperDecks and Mitti played, cued and recorded with rules that follow the show, a layer lock that holds a layer through a take or takes one on its own, a pixel map from the switcher's own image library laid over the preview as a mask, surfaces that keep a layer inside the LED element it's bound to, thin borders and dark name tabs for an aux laid out as a multiviewer, an EDID builder on the switcher's own EDID page, a Pixelhue console panel with every control remappable (preview), a DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor as a switcher panel, held by a device host that looks after USB panels for the app, the frame's audio channel matrix as a crosspoint grid, remote access over Tailscale or ZeroTier, live multiviewer pictures in the source thumbnails (preview), a thumbnail relay that sends the source previews as JPEG and refreshes the ones being edited fastest (preview), the whole setup in one file, audio routing from the command line, Test Card's patterns beside the switcher's own Pattern tab, a Resolume Arena output preset made from the switcher's own outputs, image library tools, and arithmetic in numeric fields: type 1080-80 into a layer width and get 1000. Every one of them is a plugin you can switch off, and you can write your own to add to them. It runs as a local proxy, so you browse to it instead of to the switcher and the extra panels are just there, drawn in the vendor's own design language.

Every layer on an Analog Way LivePremier costs physical mixing hardware, and the frame knows where all of it went. This reads the allocation back and draws the whole chassis on one screen: each VPU as the 8x8 field of links the manual draws, and every layer's bar as wide as the outputs it spans and as tall as its capacity. It only ever reads, never writes.

Maps MIDI and OSC control surfaces onto an Analog Way LivePremier: faders to layer opacity, encoders to size and position, and buttons to select layers, apply sources and switch keying. It works both ways, so motor faders follow the device, LED rings follow the encoders and X-Touch scribble strips name the layer each strip is pointed at. Read-only mode means the client has no write path at all, rather than a flag.

A modern control surface for Analog Way Midra and LiveCore series video processors. Its Workspace puts the sources, every screen and the memories on one page that fills the window, so you can build in program, preview or both at once, with a graphical layer editor, memories, takes, a multiviewer and confidence-output designer, an EDID writer and a full variable inspector behind it.

A reference for the TCP control protocol of Analog Way's Midra and LiveCore series video processors: the wire format, the variable model and the complete variable tables. Documentation only.

One web UI for a whole fleet of BirdDog Play NDI/SRT decoders: find them on the LAN, group them with tags, change any setting BirdUI has on any unit, or change it across a whole group at once.

A firmware patch for the BirdDog PLAY that adds a Tailscale panel to the System page of the decoder's own web UI, so a unit joins a tailnet from a browser instead of over SSH. It's the other half of the PLAY Patcher, which installs Tailscale but bakes in no auth key on purpose, because a key in a file the browser hands you is a key in cleartext. That left every patched unit installed but not signed in. Settings go through Tailscale's set command rather than up, so changing one preference doesn't reset all the others behind your back, and the panel won't offer exit-node and subnet-route switches this kernel can't honour: there's no TUN device, so Tailscale runs in userspace networking. Reads are open; writes need a live birdUI session, because an open Tailscale API would let anyone on the LAN join the box to a tailnet of their own.

A firmware patch that adds USB to the source list on a BirdDog PLAY, so the decoder plays video, stills and PDFs off a stick straight out of its HDMI, in order or shuffled, looping, and hardware-decoded. The box already had everything it needed for this and did nothing with it: the media stack is on there, nothing automounts, and the stock web UI checks the source name against a list USB isn't on. So the patch mounts the stick itself, always read-only because people pull these out without ejecting, and takes over the source dropdown instead of trying to teach the vendor's handler a new word. That means the unit stays configured for NDI underneath, and switching back is instant. exFAT works through FUSE without touching the kernel, and PDFs render through PDFium.

A 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 replaces the firmware, so the unit stops being an NDI decoder until it's flashed back, but 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.

Renders any web page offscreen through Chromium at a broadcast raster and rate, then sends it to DeckLink and AJA over SDI, to the network as NDI, OMT and RTMP/SRT, into Resolume or TouchDesigner over Syphon and Spout, and fullscreen to a GPU-attached display, with every output taking the same frame. It can run several of those pipelines at once, each with its own browser, clock and raster, so a page that hangs on one feed can't touch the others. The engine clocks the browser one frame at a time instead of letting it paint on its own timer, so 50 ticks a second means 50 paints. Settings, live diagnostics and an interactive preview all live in the browser, so a rack machine needs nothing but an HTTP port.

One web UI for a fleet of WebLinked instances: tag them into groups, send any WebLinked command to a group or the whole fleet over OSC, and watch each instance's state come back over HTTP. A lighting desk or cue stack can drive the same groups with one OSC message, using WebLinked's own verbs, so you retarget an existing button by editing the front of its address.

Master control for a presentation room: a real-time NDI video matrix router, a layered scene compositor, a presenter-notes hub, and a Control Surface with a JSON-RPC automation API.

A tray tool that keeps a Resolume show on DXV. Point it at a folder and anything dropped in gets probed and, if it isn't DXV already, sent to Resolume Alley to be converted. Point it at a running Arena or Avenue and it finds the clips that are still h264, converts them and swaps the converted file into the composition in place, keeping in and out points and clip effects, and leaving any clip that's playing alone until it stops. Alley does the converting itself, because ffmpeg has no DXV encoder and Alley is the only thing that makes one.

A crosspoint for SRT that works like a broadcast router: any number of inputs and outputs, each output switchable live to one source, all added and removed on the fly from a web UI. It's a straight relay with no transcoding, and NDI transport is included.

An NDI, OMT, SRT and ST 2110 endpoint in both directions, with screen capture in and SDI, Syphon and shared-surface out, all wired through one crosspoint.

Three test programs (a moving test card, a controller mapping tester and an overscan display), built from source for every console that has a toolchain in Homebrew. They're for checking the video path, not how accurate the emulator is.

A standalone FFGL host with NDI, OMT, Syphon and DeckLink I/O: send a source out of your mixer, through a chain of FFGL plugins on the GPU, and back in.

An optional desktop app for all the Stoatworks software: plugins, tools, applications and Companion modules. It shows what you've got installed and what has an update, and installs each one in whichever formats you use, whether that's FFGL for Resolume, OpenFX for Resolve, After Effects, or VST3 and Audio Units for a DAW. It keeps itself up to date too. You don't need an account, and it doesn't send anything anywhere.

A firmware patch that runs a BirdDog PLAY backwards. Plug a USB webcam into the decoder and it becomes an NDI or SRT sender, or goes straight back out of the HDMI. The board has a hardware encoder fitted and switched on, and the vendor's own software never touches it, because a decoder has nothing to encode.

Everything the PLAY Patcher puts into a firmware package, released as one zip: the installer scripts, the module binaries, a manifest saying where each file goes and which option needs it, and the licence notices. The page serves those files from its own origin, so nothing outside a browser could get at them until now. Tailscale and MediaMTX aren't in it, on purpose: whoever builds a package fetches them from their own publishers, the same as the page does.

A menu-bar app that lets Mitti follow a switcher it doesn't know (a Roland V-160HD, an Analog Way Pulse 4K / Midra 4K, an older Midra or a LiveCore) the way it follows an ATEM, and drives QLab 5 the same way. It can pretend to be an ATEM for Mitti to connect to, send NDI tally to Mitti's output, or drive Mitti itself over OSC or HyperDeck, for several Mittis at once on the one switcher. It also passes Mitti's single OSC feedback stream on to as many places as you list, and serves a full-screen clip clock with the current and next clip, their running times, and the time gone and the time left. Every switcher and player is a driver, so you can add your own next to the built-in ones.