Vista 3 reports nothing about what it is playing — its OSC only takes
commands — so a booth with no lighting operator can't see the lighting
computer. ProPresenter, the tracks rig and Companion fire Vista's cue lists
with notes over macOS network MIDI sessions, and a session sends every note
to every participant, so the module joins those sessions as one more
listener (RTP-MIDI in plain Node, no helper) and hears what Vista hears.
The admin's cue sheet turns notes into Go / release / pause / back / flash
on named lists. Sheets with no release notes use [groups]: a Go replaces its
group's live list, and the first group is the headline — the main scene —
which takes over the look and clears the FX below it. The tile shows the
headline list large with how long ago and who fired it, the other live
lists as tags, recent notes, and which senders are connected.
The module invites each configured sender and keeps re-inviting, accepts
invitations from anyone, and advertises itself over Bonjour on macOS. A
busy port (a config save re-initing before the old sockets close) is
retried rather than failing. Default session port is 5040/5041, clear of
the 5009 session on NA Ingest.
tools/vista-midi-mock.js is a stand-in sender for development;
modules/vista-cues/vista.test.js covers the parser, packet decoding and
real loopback sessions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
christianandClaude Opus 5.5