Radio Playouts
CGI dira visual radio and camera automation
CGI dira visual radio connects your on-air information to VRA graphics. Keep dira handling the radio production and playout, and use VRA for song titles, visual automation and microphone-driven camera switching.
What VRA does with CGI dira.
Read the Onair channel
The playout channel supplies current-item metadata. Production and planning records remain separate from what is actually on air.
Graphics follow the item
Link title and artist to text layers in the Visual Designer. The values change when the next on-air item reaches VRA.
Music and commercials apart
Map the categories supplied by the feed to VRA item groups. Use those groups to show a song title during music and hide it during commercials.
Cameras follow the conversation
Add microphone channels to Audio Triggers and connect your ATEM, vMix or OBS. Camera switching uses the microphones separately from the playout metadata.
How to set it up.
Requirements
- A CGI dira installation with access to the relevant on-air interface.
- Credentials and a field mapping for the installed dira version.
- A running VRA Core; microphone inputs and a video switcher for automatic camera switching.
Identify the dira Onair Player channel and enable read access to its available on-air integration interface.
Map the current-item artist, title and identity. Include timing and categories only when the installed interface exposes them.
Deliver the mapped current item to Generic AutomationLink on VRA Core. Keep credentials and source access in the studio connection.
Test starts, stops and manual changes against the VRA automation view. Bind the verified values to graphics, then configure microphone channels and camera commands separately.
CGI dira questions
Which CGI dira interface does the connection use? +
The on-air integration interface available in the station installation. CGI documents an OnAir API for Onair Player; the version and configuration determine the accessible fields.
Does VRA need to replace dira production tools? +
No. VRA reads the radio playout metadata and runs the video workflow beside your existing dira installation.
Does this replace my radio automation? +
No. Your radio automation keeps playing the audio and managing its log. VRA reads the on-air information and uses it for the video side of the show.
Does now-playing data also switch the cameras? +
Now-playing data identifies the item, not the person speaking. Connect the studio microphones to Audio Triggers for speaker-driven camera switching.
CGI
About CGI dira.
CGI dira covers radio production, content management and playout. CGI documents an OnAir API for its Onair Player, alongside integration interfaces in the broader dira platform.
CGI dira visual radio with VRA
VRA's connection uses the station's on-air playout information. The installed dira version and available API determine the source fields. The connection maps current artist, title and item identity to AutomationLink, rather than treating an archive or planning record as the item on air.
The mapped values fill Visual Designer graphics. Categories supplied by dira can trigger a different visual for a song, jingle or commercial. Cameras use a separate path: Audio Triggers reads the microphone channels and the connected video switcher takes the selected shot.
What you can do with this connection
The products behind it.
More integrations.
Inbound HTTP
Send now-playing data to VRA over HTTP from any playout system: post the current and upcoming items as JSON and your radio graphics follow the show.
DAVID DigaSystem
Add visual radio to DAVID DigaSystem. VRA uses on-air metadata for now-playing graphics while your DigAS playout keeps running the radio show.
Jutel RadioMan
Add visual radio to Jutel RadioMan. Connect on-air channel metadata to VRA graphics and combine it with microphone-driven studio camera switching.
Check your studio setup with us.
Tell us your camera models, video switcher and radio automation. We will check the connections and show you the workflow that fits your station.