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Our venue just upgraded their scoreboard to Bodet videowall. It is hard to run OCR since they constantly change on screen display. Now I have found out that there is an option to get some kind of a ethernet plug. How do you deal with it? How to get time data into vMix or any usable form?
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You haven't given many details about "ethernet plug" which i assume to be some sort of data providing plug.
There are many ways of getting data into vmix from different sources and routes and sometimes you do it with a little "translator" for vMix to like
If they are able to retrieve and display , so can you (if they give you acces to the source ;-) )
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I can assume that there is some kind of central (server or appliance) that ingests the change from a controller and provides the data to be rendered. You would want to have access to this data feed. Sometimes it's rss, sometimes xml, API or something else. You have to ask them how to get that feed.
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Check out link below Sportzcast Facebook PageSportzcast Score LinkSportzcast has a couple of devices available. Eric Pratt from US Broadcast Distribution might be able to help you if you have any questions. Theses units work with almost all Scoreboards out there.. Originally Posted by: mavik  I can assume that there is some kind of central (server or appliance) that ingests the change from a controller and provides the data to be rendered. You would want to have access to this data feed. Sometimes it's rss, sometimes xml, API or something else. You have to ask them how to get that feed.
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From a short look, it seems that the communication is RS232. You would need to translate the serial commands into something that vmix understands. Some bridge code.
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Originally Posted by: mavik From a short look, it seems that the communication is RS232. You would need to translate the serial commands into something that vmix understands. Some bridge code. not that hard: pick out the bit from the serial data received send to vMix titles with httprequests First step is to get the raw serial data in and check with free available serial data readers
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Hi, I'm in the same case ! Have you find any solution to do that ?
I'm going to work to develop a translator software but if you have a better solution it will be good.
Loïc (from France)
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Did anyone make the bodet scorepad to communicate with vMix? We work in a venue that has a Bodet scoreboard and we use a Raspberry Pi connected to the RS232 port. It was easy to get it to work.
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Which Bodet? Scorepad? How do you connect RPI to RS232?
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Anyone have any solution? I have a semi working python script, but always up for better solution.
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Originally Posted by: gre2gor Anyone have any solution? I have a semi working python script, but always up for better solution. Since you can get full single board computers these days for less then $20, I suggest you get a single board computer with both a serial interface and a network interface (cable or wifi) and install Linux on it and of course Python and then let your Python script translate the "messages" as detailed in the manual linked above (or better yet in the manual for the system you are using if it's not exactly the same) to HTTP requests to Vmix to update the Titles in your vMix Scoreboard. That system can be mounted in a box to protect it and hooked to the scoreboard and placed in some convenient but out of the way place. That's basically what the poster above appears to be doing with his Raspberry PI so you can try contacting him to see if he can give you better advice.
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