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voiceovercity  
#1 Posted : Wednesday, August 15, 2018 2:50:54 PM(UTC)
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I'd like to place a feature request to have status indicator lights added to the top bar that would provide a visual status to each stream. (see sample image). It would be great to have buttons where the 'stream' button is now that would represent the following [all, 1,2,3]. The COG and right-arrow can stay.

Here's what I have in mind. The status lights would be colored to show they are configured and match a GREEN(good), Yellow(warning), or RED(failed) status.

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#2 Posted : Wednesday, August 15, 2018 2:53:58 PM(UTC)
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#3 Posted : Wednesday, August 15, 2018 4:04:35 PM(UTC)
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#4 Posted : Wednesday, August 15, 2018 4:07:33 PM(UTC)
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Some discussion may be warranted...

Current vMix color protocol is Red means A-Okay (Stream, Record) or it means On (External, Playlist, etc).

While it makes sense that a "status" light indicate green for "good," it would go against the status quo.

But, +1 for the concept.

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#5 Posted : Wednesday, August 15, 2018 4:49:18 PM(UTC)
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Personally, being colored blind, something other than 'red' and 'green' would be preferred. It is difficult telling the difference between them.
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#6 Posted : Wednesday, August 15, 2018 4:54:24 PM(UTC)
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sinc747 wrote:
Some discussion may be warranted...

Current vMix color protocol is Red means A-Okay (Stream, Record) or it means On (External, Playlist, etc).

While it makes sense that a "status" light indicate green for "good," it would go against the status quo.

But, +1 for the concept.

- Tom



Agreed, It would confuse me! Perhaps Red for "ok", and yellow for "warning", and grey for "not streaming" to keep with traditional vmix colour protocol.
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#7 Posted : Thursday, August 16, 2018 6:15:44 AM(UTC)
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#12 Posted : Friday, August 17, 2018 9:48:41 PM(UTC)
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jabal  
#13 Posted : Sunday, February 28, 2021 3:08:55 PM(UTC)
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This is sort of off topic - but if you want an extra indictor you can get a blynclight ($40 usb indicator light) and run this python code in the background. It will light up green if its streaming.



# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Sat Feb 27 22:35:03 2021

@author: jabal
"""

import socket
import time
import blynclight
sock=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

server_address = ('localhost', 8099)

try:
b=blynclight.BlyncLight.get_light()
b.color=(0,0,200)
light=True
except:
light=False
print('no light')




while 1:
time.sleep(.5)
try:
sock.connect(server_address)
except:
print('vmix not open')
vmix=0
while vmix==0:
try:
time.sleep(.5)
test=sock.sendall(b'ACTS Streaming\r\n')
data = sock.recv(100)
if str(data)[-6]=='1':
if light:
b.on=True
print('streaming')
else:
if light:
b.on=False
print('not streaming')
except:
vmix=1

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