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Lawo visual radio and Ember+ camera automation
Lawo visual radio connects your console state to VRA camera and graphics automation. Use the Ember+ signals exposed by your crystal, diamond or ruby installation to drive the picture around your existing radio workflow.
What VRA does with Lawo consoles.
Use your configured Lawo provider
Map the parameters exposed by the station configuration instead of relying on a fixed tree shared by every console.
A fader state can trigger a visual
Use mapped input changes as automation conditions for camera commands and macros.
The console remains in charge of audio
VRA reads the mapped control signals for video automation. Audio mixing and routing stay in the console.
Speaker-driven shots beside console logic
A fader-open signal means a channel is available, not that someone is speaking. Use individual microphone audio in Audio Triggers when the shot needs to follow speech.
How to set it up.
Requirements
- A Lawo installation exposing the required state through an enabled Ember+ provider.
- The provider address, configured port and access from VRA Core.
- GPIO access in VRA. Separate microphone audio inputs are needed for speaker-driven switching.
Enable the relevant Ember+ provider in the Lawo installation and identify the parameters for the required microphone or fader states.
In VRA studio GPIO settings, add an Ember+ connection and enter the provider host and configured port.
Browse the provider tree and map the required paths with their value types. Check state changes at the desk against VRA.
Use the mapped inputs as automation conditions for camera commands or macros. For speech detection, configure individual microphone audio in Audio Triggers separately.
Lawo consoles questions
Does VRA work with Lawo crystal, diamond and ruby? +
VRA connects through Ember+ when the installed system exposes the required control states. The model, firmware and provider configuration determine which parameters can be mapped.
Is this the same connection as Lawo R3LAY? +
No. This page covers console control state over Ember+. R3LAY supplies audio channels through an audio driver and has its own setup.
Does a fader-open signal identify who is speaking? +
No. It says the channel is open. Audio Triggers uses the individual microphone audio for speaker-driven shots; console logic can drive separate camera or graphics rules.
Does VRA carry the console audio over this connection? +
No. This connection carries control state. Microphone audio reaches Audio Manager through a separate supported audio interface or driver.
Lawo
About Lawo consoles.
Lawo radio installations can expose console state through Ember+. VRA reads the parameters the station makes available and uses them as conditions for studio automation.
Lawo visual radio through Ember+
The connection targets the configured provider in the Lawo system, rather than assuming every crystal, diamond or ruby has the same tree. The station's model, firmware and configuration decide which fader and microphone states are exposed. Browse the actual tree and map only the signals your automation needs.
The Ember+ connection carries control state, not microphone audio. For cuts that follow the person speaking, connect separate microphone channels to Audio Triggers. A Lawo R3LAY audio-driver connection is a separate integration.
What you can do with this connection
Automated camera switching for radio
Switch cameras from microphone activity and prepare PTZ shots off air.
More infoThe products behind it.
More integrations.
Ember+
Use Ember+ parameters as GPIO triggers for visual radio. VRA reads the console and router values you map to cut cameras, change graphics or run macros.
Lawo R3LAY
Lawo R3LAY's WDM driver hands your studio mics to VRA, with or without the Lawo name in Windows. Each channel becomes a trigger that switches your cameras.
DHD
Connect DHD console logic to VRA for visual radio. Use microphone states and console signals to trigger camera angles, graphics and studio macros.
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.