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Monitor, update, and manage AV hardware across your entire campus — cameras, encoders, mixers, and more.
Bitfocus Companion can control far more than OBS and vMix. Projectors over PJLink, PTZ cameras over VISCA, digital sound boards over the network, and almost anything else with an IP address. Here's how churches connect the rest of the room, and how to plan a 'Start Service' button that does it all.
A symptom-first field guide to the PTZ and network camera failures church booths actually hit — cameras that vanish from the network, presets that drift, flicker under LED lighting, video lagging the audio — with fast checks for each, and the upgrades that end the guessing: a mapped system, cameras on watch, and AI that knows your wiring.
The AV manager's tour of the context architecture: how the Signal Map, live inventory, telemetry, and support history become an assistant that answers questions about YOUR booth — in the app as Luminos, on the phone as Journey.
How to link a Ubiquiti UniFi controller to WorshipMetrics with an API key or a local admin account, and what port-precise topology unlocks: auto-inferred Ethernet wires, live PoE draw per port, and negotiated vs. maximum link speed.
What the 3-pin vs 5-pin DMX question actually means, why DMX gender runs backwards from audio XLR, when mic cable will burn you, how termination works, and where Art-Net and sACN nodes fit in a church rig.
How the multi-observer health rollup decides whether a camera is truly offline — the five device states, the 10-minute staleness window, per-device alert delays, and the 3 AM false page this design prevents.
What each SDI generation actually carries, why mixed-generation gear misbehaves, how micro-DIN and HD-BNC connectors differ, and how to plan cable runs that survive Sunday.
A transparent, field-by-field tour of the Tech Manager telemetry payloads — the 15-second light beat, the 60-second full snapshot, what stays local, and why the connection is outbound-only.
How stable per-signal cable IDs like VID-001 and AUD-002 outlast masking tape, memory, and volunteer turnover — and how to match labels, signal map, and patch sheet.
A practical guide to 802.3af, 802.3at, and 802.3bt PoE classes, per-port caps, and chassis power budgets so your PTZ cameras, access points, and touch panels stay powered every Sunday.
A practical guide to VISCA-over-IP camera control for church AV teams, covering UDP port 52381, the runaway-camera problem, preset workflows, autofocus zones, and cross-brand image matching.
How congregations can build remote support systems for AV troubleshooting, monitoring, and faster issue resolution.
Foundational networking guidance for reliable church AV systems, streaming, and connected devices.
How to keep an accurate AV inventory and maintenance rhythm for church production systems.
How to position, configure, and remotely control PTZ cameras for reliable church live production.
Best practices for monitoring, documenting, and supporting AV hardware across multiple church locations.