- newest_of picks by CFBundleShortVersionString, not file name (ProPresenter.app sorted after ProPresenter 20.1.app)
- mac_start takes newest_of; auto-setup uses it for programs on the Companion Mac
- WS and SC switched over; NA's ProP restart re-rendered (same pick today)
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- a helper program (rtpMIDI) on a computer that joins after the MIDI key exists is added to it
(it was marked seen and never added)
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- pages (NA 98 Locations / 99 Location, re-imported via PAGES_VERSION), keys, settings page, setup and
install messages, alerts, docs, the Apollo Beach kit; python3 -m settings.location and /location/...
addresses (the old names still answer for installed Macs)
- Apply reads the before settings from the file: an in-place edit skipped the watchdog restart
- SC: SUPERRACK (+SoundGrid) and X32 EDIT from SC FOH; FOH TRACKS and TRACKS LIGHTS MIDI links watched
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- kind autofix: its own switch on the auto-fix hours; ALARMS then only silences (NA keeps the old
combined key until it has room for one)
- kind bypass: hold takes every network MIDI link to a peer out (here and on listed Macs), checks stop
calling it lost, re-taken every 10 s; hold again puts back exactly what was taken plus every watched link
- a MIDI peer with no address is never called (it connected SC Tracks to itself)
- holds from NA's CAMPUS page flip switch keys; a rebuild keeps them; new campuses get AUTO-FIX
- key kind changes restart the watchdog; settings page has separate alarm / auto-fix buttons
- WS and SC configs: AUTO-FIX at 3,1; SC LIGHTS at 1,3; NA config synced from live
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- tools/standalone.py builds dist/<Name> Status Panel.zip: program, install.command, READ ME FIRST.txt
- setup --standalone: campuses.json standalone, tells nobody, no hub, no NA key
- Standalone backs itself up nightly to ~/Documents/Status Panel Backups/<id>
- upgrade-companion --from <.dmg/.zip from bitfocus.io> (no NA needed)
- Only the hub lists campuses or shows other campuses' install lines
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- An explicit look or rebuild may apply inside the auto-fix hours (never while live)
- A page move clears the page left behind when only our keys are on it
- A rebuild keeps MIDI links that are down now; first-setup import waits for the keys to land
- ProPresenter port drift fixed automatically (kind propresenter_port)
- sites/sc/config.json kept with the others
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ProPresenter (on the Companion Mac) now reaches Lighting at 10.2.2.2:5004; Lights sees ProPresenter at
10.2.2.210:5004, both running. The MIDI key watches it (PROP LIGHTS). Auto-setup counts a link to the
Companion Mac's own session once (it had listed it from both ends).
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- Auto-setup: programs on the Companion Mac itself (ProPresenter at Woonsocket) get a local process
check and local start/restart fixes; every campus gets a Restart page (keys arrive as computers
join); NA's auto-fix hours (Tue, Wed, Sun); a program found after its Companion connection joins
that key instead of making a second one. settings.campus rebuild remakes a campus from what is
found now, keeping its name, PIN and pages; upgrade-companion brings Companion to 5.0.7 from NA's
copy (/campus/companion.zip), as Woonsocket was; setup stops with that advice on an older one.
- NA's CAMPUSES page has a RESTART key per campus; the CAMPUS page shows that campus's Restart page
and a hold there restarts it at that campus.
- Backups: backup/backup-campuses.sh, nightly 04:30 on NA (installed everywhere, acts on the hub),
into Drive > Waters Creative > Apps > Status Panel Backups/<campus>, 30 kept, alert email via the
checklist's alert.js. Campuses report the account to back up with. sites/ws/config.json in the repo.
- Woonsocket rebuilt: 9 keys (PROP with ProPresenter on its Mac), Restart page 20 (SUPERRACK, VISTA,
ABLETON, PROP), auto-fix on NA's hours; all OK. Both campuses backed up to Drive by the job.
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- NA's CAMPUS page (99): tap = acknowledge, hold = fix, at the campus shown. NA's settings page
turns the cell into that campus's key and writes the command into that campus's Companion
(sp_cmd), exactly as a press on its own deck does. Logged on both sides.
- coremidi.JXA_CONNECT: connect_peer in JavaScript for Automation, used when a Mac has no python
(no Command Line Tools): a MIDI hold now reconnects Woonsocket's Tracks, FOH and Lights.
- Woonsocket's MIDI links are on wired addresses now (Tracks to Lighting 10.2.2.2, Tracks to FOH
10.2.1.12; the other ends list Tracks at 10.2.1.219), and the wired-network rule is back on there.
- Auto-setup keeps one check per MIDI link (the end that reports the link's state): two pulled
links read 4 DOWN before.
Tried live: a hold sent from NA's page 99 reconnected the FOH link at Woonsocket.
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From the WS Production Startup checklist (check.watersmedia.org):
- M32 (the "X32" there is a Midas M32 at 10.2.1.146): Woonsocket's Companion got the X32/M32
module (imported from NA's copy through Companion's own API) and an m32 connection; auto-setup
names a single M32 connection's key M32.
- SuperRack's link to the Waves SoundGrid server: a soundgrid check builder (SuperRack's control
connection on port 19000) inside every SUPERRACK key.
- MIDI ("Open Audio MIDI"): Macs without the Command Line Tools have their sessions read with
JavaScript for Automation (coremidi.JXA_SESSIONS) - by the watchdog every 2 s and by discovery. A
peer with no state (older macOS) counts as configured. A peer joined by name or IPv6 gets the
wired address of the Mac whose session it is (matched by session name), at that session's port.
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On a Mac without the Command Line Tools, /usr/bin/python3 is a stub that opens Apple's installer on
that Mac's screen: Woonsocket's Tracks and FOH Macs showed it after joining (and would every ten
minutes). Python now runs on another Mac only when xcode-select says it is there (MIDI reads, MIDI
reconnects, the Computers probe); without it those Macs' own MIDI sessions are simply not read.
The app list used a glob that zsh (the Macs' login shell) turns into an error when one pattern
matches nothing, so no app was ever found there: find instead, and a running program's app path is
taken from the program itself. New recipes: SuperRack SoundGrid and X32-Edit (AUDIO).
Woonsocket now has ABLETON, SUPERRACK and X32 EDIT keys, all OK, and NA's page 99 shows them.
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Opened directly (nothing tapped), page 99 was all purple: no campus chosen. It now shows the first
other campus until one is tapped, and the back key reads WS / ALL SITES.
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Campuses set up from NA's install line tell NA where they are and learn nothing back (no campus
ever shows another). NA alone reads each campus's key states every two seconds and keeps two pages
in its Companion (added at the end, 98 and 99, since every other page is in use): CAMPUSES, a key
per campus (its ALL key, purple when it stops answering), and CAMPUS, the tapped campus's status
page drawn live in the same places, view only. Tried on NA with a test campus pointing at NA
itself, then removed.
tools/fleet.py: an Apple Remote Desktop command that turns on Remote Login, adds the laptop's key
and reports each Mac to NA, and the laptop SSH shortcuts made from those reports (tried on NA
Translation).
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settings/discover.py reads Companion's connections (and their addresses and channel counts), the
Dante devices, the network MIDI sessions here and on joined Macs, this Mac's wired network, and
what runs on each joined computer. settings/autoconf.py turns that into keys, checks, start and
restart fixes and a page layout the way North Attleboro's were made (group keys only when not
everything fits; receivers fold first), all through the existing builders and rules.
settings/campus.py prepares Companion through its internal API (the panel's custom variables and
the blink trigger), picks free pages, applies the first config, serves the program kit, the
campus install line and the Mac/PC join lines, and looks every ten minutes to add new gear
(discover.auto; never during a service or a recording, never removes, never re-adds what someone
took off). Settings > Auto-setup shows what was found and the lines to paste. install.sh keeps the
kit and makes the panel's login key.
Checked on North Attleboro read-only: discovery finds all 43 connections, 19 Dante devices, four
Macs' MIDI sessions and seven computers, and a from-scratch build reproduces NA's layout. The
Companion calls were tried with a throwaway variable and a disabled trigger, then removed.
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