Radio Playouts
Dalet visual radio and now-playing graphics
Dalet visual radio brings the radio log to your on-screen graphics. VRA uses the on-air artist, title and item information while Dalet keeps handling radio production and playout.
What VRA does with Dalet.
An export for your Dalet installation
The connection uses the metadata output available in the installed radio system. Export settings are specific to that product and version.
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 Dalet radio installation with access to its on-air metadata output.
- A mapping for the export format and fields of that installation.
- A reachable VRA Core and graphics output.
Identify the installed Dalet radio version and enable its on-air metadata output for the station channel.
Choose the artist, title and current-item identifier in the export. Include type or category when it is available.
Map the Dalet export to the VRA Generic AutomationLink format. For XML, parse the fields before posting JSON to VRA Core.
Verify a song change and a commercial break in VRA. Bind the received values to graphics and use the mapped item groups to control visibility.
Dalet questions
Can Dalet XML drive VRA graphics? +
Yes. The connection translates the XML fields into VRA automation data. It does not treat the XML as a generic artist-and-title text file.
Does this require replacing Dalet? +
No. Dalet remains the radio production and playout system. VRA supplies the graphics and camera automation around it.
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.
Dalet
About Dalet.
Dalet radio systems manage production and playout. VRA adds now-playing graphics and studio camera automation around that existing workflow.
Dalet visual radio from playout metadata
Dalet has documented XML output for web streaming in its legacy radio OnAir plug-in. The installed Dalet product, version and export configuration determine which fields the station can supply. The connection uses the on-air feed, rather than assuming every Dalet system has the same export menu.
The Dalet connection maps that feed into VRA automation data. Artist and title fill the graphic, and an exported category can distinguish music from commercials. XML is parsed into VRA's JSON structure before delivery to Core. Your Dalet audio log remains the source; VRA does not rewrite it.
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.
OmniPlayer
OmniPlayer visual radio with VRA: song titles and graphics follow OmniPlayer's built-in export, and the cameras switch to whoever is talking in the studio.
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.