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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.  voiceovercity attached the following image(s):   vMix_2018-08-14_142913.png (44kb) downloaded 5 time(s).You cannot view/download attachments. Try to login or register. | 
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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.
 
 - Tom
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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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                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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                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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