Virtual Tally Light and Number

[Cuperino]

Is your feature request related to a problem or a limitation? Please describe...
Add tally integration to inform users which camera they should look at without a need for dedicated tally light hardware.

Describe the solution you'd prefer

• Solution communicates with a tally control system through an industry standard protocol
• The screen you should be reading from is displayed inside the prompter's viewport
• A virtual tally light is displayed on screen projections, indicating which screen talents should be looking at
• Tally number and tally light can be enabled and disabled individually
• Tally light and number can be placed by dragging and dropping
• When drawing, tally number placement will have priority over tally light placement. Meaning the number can cover the light, but not the other way around
• Tally indicator can be set as a pointer in Pointer Indicators.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Have a separate software handle the tally and draw its tally light and number on top of QPrompt windows

[videosmith]

How about USB input of tally data from switcher to QPrompt computer that displays custom cursors?

[Cuperino]

Interesting idea. We could have Tally pointers, why not?

[Cuperino]

As for reading from USB, that would depend on how is that data communicated via USB. If it registers as a serial device, that is data we could probably read from any platform using Qt. If it uses something that requires drivers of some kind, then that would go outside of QPrompt's scope, because the code to make it work would have to be platform specific.

[videosmith]

Some switchers have a simple GPI voltage/no voltage interface that either talks to cameras/tally lights directly or would require a external unit to encode signals into a data stream for the host laptop and cameras (eg: BM GPI and Tally Interface).
Other switchers send directly to the cameras via SDI or HDMI.

Agree that some form of listening to the switcher tally signals would be imperative.

Although clumsy, perhaps a Stream Deck with QPrompt Tally pointer shortcuts operated a secondary tech that mimics the TD switches?