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Remote control for ATEM switcher needed

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:38 pm
by Hadmut Danisch
Hi,

I would need a remote control for an ATEM Television Studio HD, i.e. for the eight channel buttons and the cut button. I want to put one of these extremely flat 4x4 membrane keypads that are sold on the common microelektronics shops (like https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-4-4 ... 81405.html) on a moderator's table to allow him to switch cameras while in the show.

It must be possible to remote control the ATEM over the network, since there's software for the Mac, that does exactly that. So technically it should be possible to attach the keypad to a ESP8266 module and to build the remote control with hardware for just $5.

So the question is: The API. To program the ESP, knowledge of the protocol between the Mac and the ATEM would be needed.

Would be really, really nice if that was possible.

Could anyone help?

Wouldn't that be a nice support project for Blackmagic?

(BTW: Blackmagic offers an 3G-SDI Arduino Shield, and although Arduinos are somewhat outdated and have been replaced by ESP8266 and ESP32, which are more powerful and have WLAN and Bluetooth, there are special versions of ESP8266 boards with the same footprint as Arduino boards and can take the same shields, including I2C. Would in general be nice to give some support for ESP modules. They are really useful, and some support for these would greatly improve the usability for all those special cases and experimental applications.)

regards
Hadmut

Re: Remote control for ATEM switcher needed

PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:32 am
by Ian Morrish
You have 2 options:
1. Free ATEM API (Mac and Windows)
2. UDP reverse engineering libraries (Arduio, Node.JS and Python can be found on GitHub)

For Mac there is ATEMOSC which allows you to use Midi devices with some additional software.

For Windows there is JustMacros (LUA script based automation host) or PowerShell (my solution) https://ianmorrish.wordpress.com . Both can use X-Keys, Midi or Arduino for input. I have also added Elgato Stream Deck as keypad input for PowerShell.

For Arduino, see https://github.com/kasperskaarhoj

Re: Remote control for ATEM switcher needed

PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 3:41 pm
by Roman Pytkin Pekarek
Ian : Stream Deck looks very interesting .. im using Just macros about 3-4 years .. I found your PowerShell now .. Is Stream Deck fully supported ? I mean texts, background colors , etc ?

Re: Remote control for ATEM switcher needed

PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 6:49 pm
by Ian Morrish
I was just working on this last weekend. Haven't got dynamic text on buttons working but support for that is baked in, just need to get an end user function written. See the latest demo which is much faster response and shows multiple pages for button functions.


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Re: Remote control for ATEM switcher needed

PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2018 7:58 pm
by Xtreemtec
Great work Ian :)

Re: Remote control for ATEM switcher needed

PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 7:08 pm
by Nerds LTD
Streamdeck software just released a plugin called Companion. { https://bitfocus.io/companion/ } the ATEM and hyperdeck protocols are beautifully implemented. I'm still working out a nice setup for the ATEM TVS HD. There's also a handy import/export function so anyone who is ahead of me on this matter please upload your settings.

Re: Remote control for ATEM switcher needed

PostPosted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:55 am
by IsseSwe
Following this :-)

Re: Remote control for ATEM switcher needed

PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:00 pm
by Roman Pytkin Pekarek
Companion looks really nice ! Time to buy one StreamDeck :)

Re: Remote control for ATEM switcher needed

PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:14 pm
by Roman Pytkin Pekarek

Wireless control for ATEM switcher .....with preview

PostPosted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 8:51 am
by MidasVideo
Hello friends, I have used Touch OSC and I can also have previous and multiview.
I have a video on YOUTUBE, it's very easy to do.
You can find me as Midas Video