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BLADE//runner is a suite of live broadcast production software and hardware which provide a wide variety of tools for professional productions. Designed with a highly flexible and modular core allowing for the creation and deletion of resources and functions on-the-fly. BLADE//runner is controllable by an open API as well as through NMOS IS-04/-05 (and Ember+ via BLADE//master) and is designed for the modern broadcast facility, where flexibility and scalability are essential.

Applications

Tools for your setup and workflow

Flows

Flows is part of the Blade//runner GUI hosted on every AT300 blade.
It offers an easier, graphical way to:

  • Route audio and video in a blade without any restriction and patch receiver SDPs from another blade
  • Activate/Deactivate transmitter and receiver sessions
  • Create transmitters, receivers, players and processors (color correctors, video mixers/dsk, splitters, delays, SRCs, stereo mixers, audio shufflers)

Blade//planner

Blade//planner is an offline application that gives you the power to easily configure blades without the need of a full-blown control system or scripting. You can create and route all your video and audio sources and destinations without active connections to Blade//runner. It has import and export functionality for your configurations and the created configuration files can be uploaded to Blade//runner for an automated setup process.

Blade//amixer

Blade//amixer is a fully-featured audio mixer running on the AT300 IPA app (or without audio processing on AVP). It offers customizable channel layouts for its web based virtual panel with graphical controls for equalizers and compressors. Control via REST or Websocket is also possible.

V//telemetry
V//telemetry is a monitoring application for Blade//runner, running in a docker container. It can easily be set up as a single instance or as a cluster and works seamlessly with influxDB as a data holder. It can be configured to monitor either specific or all data from AT300 blades. It is offered as a standalone tool or with an easy setup template as a complete stack including influxDB as the database and the very popular Grafana as the user interface. The package is a powerful monitoring solution, including pre-existing dashboards, Grafanas various panels and features like alarming rules to any endpoint (email, slack, sms etc.). In addition, thanks to the well-known tools, you can integrate all kinds of databases or monitoring solutions like prometheus, telegraf (used for monitoring all kinds of devices like switches) into it.
Blade//master

Blade//master is our Ember+ interface which can run either on any PC or on an AT300 blade. It offers a configurable set of Blade//runner features of one or multiple blades, made available for Ember+ compatible control systems for an easy integration of Blade//runner to all kinds of work environments. Blade//master can be set up as one or multiple instances. It fully supports the IP Router application and offers all sources and destinations as big Ember+ matrices. It automatically adds new components and marks deleted ones as offline. In addition, Blade//master supports protocols for direct control of hardware panels.

VSK
VSK is a cli tool available for linux, mac and windows with a bunch of integrated tools to work with BLADE//runner, among other things:

  • querying, watching parameters of a blade
  • generation/analysis of pcaps
  • utilities for scripting
  • time series analysis
  • network and baseband topology derivation
  • wav file generation/analysis
  • image conversion/analysis
  • software installation on multiple blades
  • multicast diagnostics
  • igmp benchmarking between blades
  • ptp measurements of PTP agents
  • import/export of blade snapshots and settings

templates and guides

how to get going

Quick Start Guide

The first step to get going with BLADE//runner.

Github - User Guides

A collection of feature and setup descriptions with Githubs feedback and request.

Github - Automation (scripting)

Helper functions and scripts written in TypeScript to facilitate the automation of AT300 processing blades.
cookbooks

concept explanations

Read through our pdfs to learn about the idea and the technical realization of our exemplary setups. For more information and interactive pages, go to our cookbook page.
IP ready baseband routing (IP-Router)
Our concept for scalable baseband routers built with BLADE//runner. Learn how you can build a reliable baseband router, based on our future-proof platform with our existing concept.
System Timing
Learn the priniciples of establishing a rock-solid PTP setup with AT300.

Asynchronous Sources

Learn how to align all your asynchronous sources properly with the AT300.

Automatic A/V Alignment

Learn how to get automatic A/V alignment on AT300

resources for advanced users, integrators and admins

api modules

Building your own applications with our native API requires having our modules available. For that, we have a public sdk repository to download the right modules for your software version. Available for node or browser-only.

You can install our modules with your node package manager:

npm i https://sdk.arkona-technologies.de/vutil@2.6.37/node/vutil.tar.gz
npm i https://sdk.arkona-technologies.de/vapi@2.6.31/node/vapi.tar.gz
npm i https://sdk.arkona-technologies.de/vscript@2.6.6/node/vscript.tar.gz

resources for advanced users, integrators and admins

tools and files

Bladerunner.mib
SNMP MIB file for Sysadmins
VSK
CLI tool with various functions for BLADE//runner
Bidconvert
Convert images and clips to the .bid format used in BLADE//runner players
BLADE//master
Docker container setup for BLADE//master
BLADE//runner automation
Typescript helper functions and scripts for BLADE//runner automation
V//telemetry template
Setup helper for the V//telemetry stack, including v//telemetry, influxDB and Grafana
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