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Inbound HTTP radio automation data for VRA
Use a custom radio automation feed to update VRA graphics. The generic HTTP connection receives current and upcoming item data from your system, so titles and visual triggers can follow the show.
How Inbound HTTP and VRA work together.
Use your own now-playing source
Send title and artist values instead of maintaining a second set of on-screen text.
Include what comes next
The format accepts upcoming items for graphics that announce the next track.
Trigger visuals from item data
Where your sender supplies type and category, use those fields to control which visuals appear.
How to set it up.
Requirements
- A sender that can produce the documented AutomationLink JSON structure.
- VRA Core reachable from that sender on the studio network.
- An engineer or integrator to map your source fields and test the feed.
Read the generic HTTP AutomationLink guide and prepare the current and upcoming item fields.
Configure your sender to post to the generic AutomationLink address on the local Core machine.
Send valid UTF-8 JSON with the documented content type.
Check the received artist, title and item changes in VRA, then link them to your graphics.
Inbound HTTP questions
Can I post any JSON to VRA? +
The feed must follow the documented AutomationLink format. Map your source fields to that structure and test item changes before using the feed on air.
Does this let VRA send webhooks to other services? +
No. This page describes your system sending radio automation data into VRA Core. It does not describe outgoing HTTP actions.
Visual Radio Assist
About Inbound HTTP.
The generic AutomationLink connection is for radio systems that can send data to VRA Core. Your integration supplies current and upcoming items in the documented JSON format.
This is an incoming data feed. It does not mean that VRA can call arbitrary webhooks from a camera trigger or macro.
What you can do with this connection
The products behind it.
More integrations.
File watch
Update VRA radio graphics from a watched text file. Configure the file path, artist/title order and role to read now-playing or upcoming information.
TCP
Use supported TCP connections for VRA studio automation. Read AerOn data or control Videohub routes with the connector and settings for your equipment.
Bitfocus Companion
Control VRA studio on/off-air state from a Stream Deck with Bitfocus Companion. Follow the generic HTTP setup and configure button feedback.
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.