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Radio Playouts
RCS Zetta Live Metadata for radio graphics
Put what RCS Zetta plays on screen without retyping it. VRA reads Zetta's Live Metadata as each event goes to air, and its title, category and item type fill your graphics and trigger visuals.
What VRA does with RCS Zetta.
Now playing without retyping
The template includes the current event's ID, title, album, start time, type, category and runtime. Those values can fill graphics and qualify item-based actions.
Item types drive the visuals
Sort the item types your feed sends into item groups, like music, jingles or commercials, and use those groups as rundown triggers. Now-playing values reach your graphics as variables.
Live Metadata is the source
Zetta sends one HTTP update per event using the VRA Advanced Output template. VRA does not need access to the Zetta database or schedule editor.
The current event only
The VRA template describes the event on air and sends no upcoming items, so a coming-up graphic cannot come from Zetta.
How to set it up.
Requirements
- Access to RCS Zetta's Live Metadata configuration.
- VRA Core reachable from the Zetta machine on the studio LAN.
- The endpoint and Advanced Output template from the RCS Zetta setup screen in VRA.
Add an RCS Zetta automation connection in VRA. Copy its local Core endpoint and Advanced Output template.
In Zetta, create a Live Metadata entry and select HTTP as the Device Method.
Enter the VRA Core endpoint that is reachable from the Zetta machine.
Open Advanced Output, paste the VRA template and save the Live Metadata configuration.
Play a test item and verify its title and timing in VRA before enabling any dependent automation.
RCS Zetta questions
Which RCS Zetta feature connects to VRA? +
A Live Metadata output with HTTP as the Device Method. The Advanced Output body comes from the RCS Zetta connection screen in VRA.
Which Zetta fields can VRA use? +
The standard template sends the current event's ID, title, album, air time, type, category and runtime.
Which time zone does Zetta send? +
UTC. The template uses Zetta's UTC timestamp and UTC air time for each event.
Does VRA write anything back to RCS Zetta? +
No. VRA only reads. Your radio automation stays the source of the rundown, and VRA reacts to what it sends.
Does the RCS Zetta link need the internet? +
No. RCS Zetta and VRA Core talk over your studio network. VRA Cloud, where you see and control the result in the browser, does need an internet connection.
RCS
About RCS Zetta.
RCS Zetta is a radio automation system. Its Live Metadata output can publish the playing event to a local HTTP endpoint whenever the on-air item changes.
What you can do with this connection
The products behind it.
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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.