Hey, what happen to this program....we are waiting......hope to see it launched very soon.....

Thank you

Epic refloat here :D

I recently found an extremely unexpensive BKDS-2010 while browsing ebay. My intention is to make it interface OBS, but all the work already done reverse engineering the Sony protocol can also be of use for controlling any other software (and/or hardware). As of today, I've been able of decoding most of the commands sent by the controller to the "virtual switcher" (my software) and sending appropiate reponses to them, which makes it already useable. Now the task is translating all of that to OBS websockets (put here your favourite protocol).

What works at this point:

- Selecting PST/PGM/KEY/AUX sources.
- Setting high/low tallies on the board.
- Selecting wipe type/trans rate/modifiers.
- Configuring next transition (KEY PRIOR/BKGD/MIX/WIPE/DME/etc.).
- DSK ON/OFF/PVW/MIX.
- Selecting MATTE params.
- Selecting KEY params.
- The T-BAR.
- Setting some parameters for MATTEs (Lum/Sat/Hue).
- Some other stuff here and there.

What doesn't work yet:
- Translation to an useable protocol (OBS/ATEM/vMix).
- Some of the params/knobs/controls of the board (work in progress, but there are dozens of them).
- Some "obscure" commands which I don't know what are supposed to do.
- Utility buses (not able yet of enabling them).
- User menus (same as utility buses).

What I'm not going to implement as of now:
- Learn, Recall, Registers, Event memory, etc. Lots of work and pretty much useless for me.

Now, I don't have access to the actual switcher (DVS-2000C) or any user manual to it (I found Installation and Maintenance manuals, but not the Operating one), so I have to imagine what every control is supposed to do or investigate it from manuals of other (more modern) models, so I'm pretty sure that there is stuff that I'm missing. On the other hand, the idea is not to perfectly mimic the operation of the original switcher, as the paradigm is very different these days (having precise control on mattes, keys, etc, from the controller is not really needed, as that can be done directly on the software), but more like a kind of "Stream Deck" with lots and lots more buttons that I can use in my setup.

The ultimate idea is to put everything in an Arduino and connect the controller through Ethernet, but haven't even started with this yet. For now, the RS422 interface is good enough for my purposes.

The software is still pretty much ugly, buggy and uncommented, but I'd be happy to talk to anyone interested in cooperating with the task. Feel free to contact me regarding the matter.

Best,

Miguel