README.md

@@ -366,8 +366,8 @@ below. Nothing is installed without someone clicking.
   the live item alone with the gradient filling the tile edge to edge — a
   wall panel that says one thing.
   Admin config: ProPresenter endpoint (host : port), password.
-  Tile settings: a **Show** group of switches for the playlist name, live
-  status, NOW and NEXT labels, slide count, progress bar, the next list and
+  Tile settings: a **Show** group of switches for the playlist name, audience
+  look, NOW and NEXT labels, slide count, progress bar, the next list and
   its item tags, plus tidy titles.
 - **Timers** — live ProPresenter timers (countdown, countdown-to-time,
   elapsed), the **video countdown** (time left on what ProPresenter is

modules/propresenter-now-next/client.js

@@ -212,7 +212,8 @@ export default function create({ root, moduleApi }) {
   }
 
   function renderLive() {
-    liveEl.classList.remove('is-live', 'is-down');
+    liveEl.classList.remove('is-live', 'is-down', 'is-look', 'is-modified');
+    liveEl.removeAttribute('title');
     if (feedOffline) {
       liveEl.classList.add('is-down');
       liveTextEl.textContent = 'Feed offline';
@@ -231,6 +232,18 @@ export default function create({ root, moduleApi }) {
     }
     if (state.reachable) {
       liveEl.classList.add('is-live');
+      const lookName = state.look && state.look.name;
+      if (lookName) {
+        // The audience look replaces "Live". textContent, never innerHTML:
+        // the name is whatever someone typed into ProPresenter.
+        const modified = Boolean(state.look.modified);
+        liveEl.classList.add('is-look');
+        liveEl.classList.toggle('is-modified', modified);
+        liveEl.title = modified ? 'Audience look (modified)' : 'Audience look';
+        liveTextEl.textContent = lookName;
+        moduleApi.setStatus('ok', `Live · ${lookName}`);
+        return;
+      }
       liveTextEl.textContent = 'Live';
       moduleApi.setStatus('ok', 'Following ProPresenter');
       return;

modules/propresenter-now-next/module.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "id": "propresenter-now-next",
   "name": "ProPresenter",
-  "version": "1.1.1",
+  "version": "1.2.0",
   "proddash": ">=1.5.0",
   "description": "What is live in ProPresenter and what comes next",
   "permissions": [
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     },
     "showLive": {
       "type": "switch",
-      "label": "Live status",
+      "label": "Audience look",
       "default": true,
       "group": "Show"
     },

modules/propresenter-now-next/server.js

@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@
  *
  *   GET /state   → { state: <view-model> }   (instant paint for new tiles)
  *   GET /stream  → SSE, `state` events       (change-detected, heartbeated)
+ *
+ * The view-model carries `look`: the live audience look as
+ * { name, modified }, or null while it is unknown. A small poller of this
+ * file's own reads it (GET /v1/look/current, with /v1/looks to name it) from
+ * the same ProPresenter the core follows. Its failures only null `look`; they
+ * never touch the core's reachable / lastError.
  */
 
 const { createProPresenterClient, clearedViewModel } = require('./propresenter-core');
@@ -17,6 +23,17 @@ const { createProPresenterClient, clearedViewModel } = require('./propresenter-c
 /** SSE comment ping cadence — keeps idle connections alive through sleepy Wi-Fi. */
 const HEARTBEAT_MS = 15000;
 
+const LOOK_POLL_MS = 1000; // the look matters the moment it changes
+const LOOK_RETRY_MS = 3000; // while the look cannot be read
+const LOOKS_EVERY = 10; // re-read the saved looks every N polls
+const LOOK_TIMEOUT_MS = 2500;
+const LOOK_FAILS_BEFORE_NULL = 3; // consecutive failed reads before the look is called unknown
+
+/** One look's name, trimmed — ProPresenter leaves the current look's name blank on some versions. */
+function lookName(entry) {
+  return String(entry?.id?.name ?? entry?.name ?? '').trim();
+}
+
 /** Set by init(), read by the routes — both are rebuilt together on remount. */
 let current = null;
 
@@ -31,30 +48,38 @@ module.exports = {
     const port = Number(config.port ?? ep.port) || 1025;
     const enabled = Boolean(host && port);
     let latest = clearedViewModel();
+    let look = null; // { name, modified } or null while unknown
     let lastFrame = '';
 
+    /** The core's view-model plus the live look — what every tile and GET /state sees. */
+    const snapshot = () => ({ ...latest, look });
+
+    function broadcast() {
+      if (!streams.size) return;
+      let frame;
+      try {
+        frame = JSON.stringify(snapshot());
+      } catch {
+        return;
+      }
+      // The poll loop emits every tick whether anything changed or not.
+      // Broadcasting only real changes keeps idle tiles genuinely idle.
+      if (frame === lastFrame) return;
+      lastFrame = frame;
+      const payload = `event: state\ndata: ${frame}\n\n`;
+      for (const res of streams) {
+        try {
+          res.write(payload);
+        } catch {
+          streams.delete(res);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
     const client = createProPresenterClient({
       onData(view) {
         latest = view;
-        if (!streams.size) return;
-        let frame;
-        try {
-          frame = JSON.stringify(view);
-        } catch {
-          return;
-        }
-        // The poll loop emits every tick whether anything changed or not.
-        // Broadcasting only real changes keeps idle tiles genuinely idle.
-        if (frame === lastFrame) return;
-        lastFrame = frame;
-        const payload = `event: state\ndata: ${frame}\n\n`;
-        for (const res of streams) {
-          try {
-            res.write(payload);
-          } catch {
-            streams.delete(res);
-          }
-        }
+        broadcast();
       },
     });
 
@@ -65,8 +90,122 @@ module.exports = {
       password: String(config.password || ''),
     });
 
+    /* ── audience look ──────────────────────────────────────────────
+       Same reads and rules as the ProPresenter Look module. ProPresenter
+       sometimes leaves the live look's name blank, so the saved list is
+       consulted: the look's `index` points at the saved look it matches, or
+       is past the end when someone has changed it by hand. */
+
+    const password = String(config.password || '');
+    let saved = []; // names of the saved looks, in ProPresenter's order
+    let savedOk = false; // the list exists and is in `saved`
+    let savedTried = false; // /v1/looks has answered (a 404 counts: do not ask again every poll)
+    let lookTick = 0;
+    let lookFails = 0; // consecutive failed reads of the look
+    let lookStopped = false;
+    let lookTimer = null;
+
+    function lookUrl(target) {
+      const built = new URL(`http://${host}:${port}${target}`);
+      if (password) built.searchParams.set('password', password);
+      return built;
+    }
+
+    async function lookJson(target) {
+      const response = await fetch(lookUrl(target), {
+        headers: { Accept: 'application/json' },
+        signal: AbortSignal.timeout(LOOK_TIMEOUT_MS),
+      });
+      if (!response.ok) {
+        const err = new Error(`ProPresenter ${response.status} ${response.statusText}`);
+        err.status = response.status;
+        throw err;
+      }
+      const text = await response.text();
+      return text ? JSON.parse(text) : null;
+    }
+
+    async function refreshSaved() {
+      try {
+        const list = await lookJson('/v1/looks');
+        // A real empty array is a valid (empty) list. Anything else that
+        // answered 200 is not a list, so it names nothing — an empty list
+        // would call every look modified.
+        saved = Array.isArray(list) ? list.map(lookName) : [];
+        savedOk = Array.isArray(list);
+        savedTried = true;
+      } catch (err) {
+        // An older ProPresenter without the list still answers look/current;
+        // the live look's own name is shown then. Remembered, so the list is
+        // asked for again only on the normal cadence, not on every poll.
+        if (err.status !== 404) throw err;
+        saved = [];
+        savedOk = false;
+        savedTried = true;
+      }
+    }
+
+    /** { name, modified }, or null when there is no name to show (the pill then says "Live"). */
+    function resolveLook(live) {
+      const index = Number(live?.id?.index);
+      const own = lookName(live);
+      if (savedOk && Number.isInteger(index) && index >= 0 && index < saved.length) {
+        return { name: saved[index] || own || `Look ${index + 1}`, modified: false };
+      }
+      // Changed by hand, matching no saved look.
+      if (savedOk && Number.isInteger(index) && index >= saved.length) {
+        return { name: own || 'Custom look', modified: true };
+      }
+      // No saved list to name it from: the live look's own name, or nothing.
+      return own ? { name: own, modified: false } : null;
+    }
+
+    function setLook(next) {
+      if (JSON.stringify(next) === JSON.stringify(look)) return;
+      look = next;
+      broadcast();
+    }
+
+    async function pollLook() {
+      if (lookStopped) return;
+      let next = null;
+      let readOk = false;
+      try {
+        lookTick += 1;
+        if (lookTick % LOOKS_EVERY === 1 || !savedTried) await refreshSaved();
+        const live = await lookJson('/v1/look/current');
+        if (!live || typeof live !== 'object') throw new Error('no look in the answer');
+        next = resolveLook(live);
+        // A look saved since our last read: refresh the list now rather than
+        // calling it "Custom" for up to ten seconds.
+        if (next?.modified && !look?.modified && lookTick % LOOKS_EVERY !== 1) {
+          await refreshSaved();
+          next = resolveLook(live);
+        }
+        readOk = true;
+      } catch {
+        // A list that exists may have changed while ProPresenter was away:
+        // re-read it first when it comes back. One that is known not to exist
+        // (404) is not asked for again on every failed retry.
+        if (savedOk) lookTick = 0;
+      }
+      if (lookStopped) return;
+      if (readOk) {
+        lookFails = 0;
+        setLook(next);
+      } else {
+        // One slow or dropped read must not blank the pill: the last good look
+        // stands until the reads have failed several times running. A real
+        // outage shows as "Reconnecting…" through the core, not as this name.
+        lookFails += 1;
+        if (lookFails >= LOOK_FAILS_BEFORE_NULL) setLook(null);
+      }
+      lookTimer = setTimeout(pollLook, readOk ? LOOK_POLL_MS : LOOK_RETRY_MS);
+    }
+
     if (enabled) {
       client.start();
+      pollLook();
       log(`following ProPresenter at ${host}:${port}`);
     } else {
       log('no ProPresenter host configured — set one in /admin');
@@ -83,10 +222,12 @@ module.exports = {
     }, HEARTBEAT_MS);
     heartbeat.unref?.();
 
-    current = { streams, getLatest: () => latest };
+    current = { streams, getLatest: snapshot };
 
     return {
       stop() {
+        lookStopped = true;
+        clearTimeout(lookTimer);
         clearInterval(heartbeat);
         client.stop();
         for (const res of streams) {
@@ -135,7 +276,7 @@ module.exports = {
         instanceSchema: {
           cleanTitles: { type: 'switch', label: 'Tidy titles', default: true },
           showPlaylist: { type: 'switch', label: 'Playlist', default: true, group: 'Show' },
-          showLive: { type: 'switch', label: 'Live status', default: true, group: 'Show' },
+          showLive: { type: 'switch', label: 'Audience look', default: true, group: 'Show' },
           showNowLabel: { type: 'switch', label: 'Now label', default: true, group: 'Show' },
           showSlideCount: { type: 'switch', label: 'Slide count', default: true, group: 'Show' },
           showProgress: { type: 'switch', label: 'Progress bar', default: true, group: 'Show' },
@@ -149,7 +290,7 @@ module.exports = {
     return {
       'GET /state': (req, res) => {
         res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'Cache-Control': 'no-store' });
-        res.end(JSON.stringify({ state: current ? current.getLatest() : clearedViewModel() }));
+        res.end(JSON.stringify({ state: current ? current.getLatest() : { ...clearedViewModel(), look: null } }));
       },
 
       'GET /stream': (req, res) => {
@@ -160,7 +301,7 @@ module.exports = {
           'X-Accel-Buffering': 'no',
         });
         res.write('retry: 3000\n\n');
-        const view = current ? current.getLatest() : clearedViewModel();
+        const view = current ? current.getLatest() : { ...clearedViewModel(), look: null };
         res.write(`event: state\ndata: ${JSON.stringify(view)}\n\n`);
         if (!current) return void res.end();
         const { streams } = current;

modules/propresenter-now-next/style.css

@@ -141,6 +141,24 @@
   transition: opacity 0.6s ease 1.4s;
 }
 
+/* The audience look is information, not a status chip: it stays, in the
+   name as typed, in the normal text colour. A look changed by hand (matching
+   no saved look) is set in italic. */
+[data-module="propresenter-now-next"] .nn-live.is-live.is-look .nn-live-text {
+  opacity: 1;
+  transition: none;
+  max-width: 14em;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  text-overflow: ellipsis;
+  text-transform: none;
+  color: var(--text);
+  font-weight: 600;
+}
+[data-module="propresenter-now-next"] .nn-live.is-look.is-modified .nn-live-text {
+  font-style: italic;
+}
+
 /* ── NOW card ──
    FIXED height so the title box is deterministic and the NOW/NEXT layout
    cannot oscillate (see the wall display's notes). */