ATEM Software on Linux

Is there much of an interest for running the ATEM Software on Linux platforms?

I don't think it would make a difference or improvement as the software is used mainly for control, where the ultimate setup would be with the hardware switcher control


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Just run a VM

It is great to have.

I've built an IP based one we use in conjunction with a server with some decklink cards - the multiview out from the Atem goes into the server which then transmits the feed to any html5 client. It's a bit specific to our hardware setup but I was planning on opening it up soon.

In my spare time I was wanting to make a Qt based clone of Atem software control - that would be a bit more ideal and I'll bump that up the priority list if anyone's interested. That one could integrate with a decklink'ed multiview quite nicely.

Well... I started this topic and abandoned it. BUT here is the current ATEM software running on Debian Linux:


I would really like to see BMD release a Linux version along with a matching API. I think all of the embedded developers would appreciate that...

I posted a guide on my website if anyone is interested: austinleeginn.com/blog/2015/12/28/atem-software-and-linux

While BMD has great support for Decklink, this has been a void.
I use Peter's Qt libs with great success.

http://atemuser.com/forums/atem-vision-mixers/developers/qt-based-lib-connecting-atem-switch

https://github.com/petersimonsson/libqatemcontrol

You will note that most of BMD's own software is written using Qt.
http://www.qt.io/

Is there much of an interest for running the ATEM Software on Linux platforms?

Personally, I would be very interested in having ATEM control for some kind of RHEL compatible linux.

Sooo. Now with the ATEM Mini. What do people on Linux do?

I don't need to do much, basically just want to set image/media. And maybe some audio would be ace. But just setting image is enough.

Has anyone gotten these softwares to work?

Hi guys
Hope everyone is going well !

I post because we actually use only linux and we would love to see ATEM software there. Cannot essentially buy it without such a support... :/
By the way, I read earlier in the forum that you can "virtualize" it ? How do you do this, and more , how do you get the virtual environment to connect to, let's say for example, Resolve or media express turning under linux?
Do you mean virtualbox and the likes ?

Also a technical question, do the bmpcc (first one) could be synchronized for the timecode through the ATEM Mini ?

Thank you

@roughshots & @odinho
Most of the features of the atem switcher software are working under Ubuntu Linux using wine, see the following topic for a howto:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=93169&p=517826#p517826

Do you mean virtualbox and the likes ?

yes.
VMs like virtualbox often fail on resource intensive video applications
ATEM software is just transmitting control signals so that common problem isn't a problem & the app should work fine in a VM

i got ATEM to work on debian but it had an intolerable audio bug

I was interested in the new ATEM Mini Pro ISO, but lost interest when I saw the lack of Linux support. I'm not going to spend $895 on something that I can't get the full benefit of without turning to hacky solutions that may or may not work.

Is there much of an interest for running the ATEM Software on Linux platforms?

Yes, windows sucks and macs are too expensive...

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Yes, absolutely! I’m sure the company that created Davinci Resolve for Linux is more than capable of porting their Atem control software to Linux…
Can’t wait to get rid of Windows completely.

Yeah, I also want to see Linux versions of the ATEM software. I'm not fully switched over to Linux yet, but I'm using Linux more now than I have ever have, and I'd love to be able to build a Raspberry Pi powered switching console.

Windows 11 will also increase the pressure on existing PC users to either upgrade or switch off of Windows. Of the 12 computers I own, 9 of them are incompatible with 11 (most run 7th gen i7 CPUs), and so I am going to move a lot of stuff to Linux, if I want to keep them running after Windows 10 stops getting updates in 2025.

I'm very interested in controlling my ATEM from Linux. Specifically, all I need to do is control the ATEM's aux outputs from a Raspberry Pi (or even an Arduino). I don't need the full GUI software control interface installed on Linux--just the raw SDK to be able to issue commands to the ATEM. Is this really not supported from Linux after all these years?

You may be interested in this project: https://openswitcher.org

You may be interested in this project: https://openswitcher.org

Thanks for the suggestion, Adam. Based on the docs (https://docs.openswitcher.org/), the Python library may help since it allows (1) issuing commands to the ATEM and (2) responding to changes in the ATEM, like if the program feed was changed. I'll need to do both of these since I'll have a PTZ controller and want the ATEM aux to show the feed currently being controlled, and I also want to send the program/preview tally signals from the ATEM to the PTZ controller since the controller supports showing program/preview indicators.

Anyway, it looks like this Open Switcher library is a young project but is actively being worked on, which is great. I'll have to try it sometime and see how it works.

I'm very interested in controlling my ATEM from Linux. Specifically, all I need to do is control the ATEM's aux outputs from a Raspberry Pi (or even an Arduino). I don't need the full GUI software control interface installed on Linux--just the raw SDK to be able to issue commands to the ATEM. Is this really not supported from Linux after all these years?

If I'm not mistaken the Atem Mini () switchers did receive a undocumented "telnet" option a couple of updates ago(found the url)!
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=123422#p731551

Try port scan to see if its there this would make it clean and easier to just let a raspberry pi (non x86_64) do the switching than the python based openswitching which also seems a great candidate.

Just as a reminder for this topic, its still possible to run atem software on x86_64 linux using Wine see this thread: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=93169&p=517826#p517826