stagedings

An API to navigate scenes and subscenes that has been configured in a mididings script

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What does stagedings allow?

• A web-based interface
  • Alternative of the legacy livedings UI, which was based on Tkinter 🪓
• A HTTP layer that facilitates control and navigation allowing the abstraction of OSC subcalls
• An OpenAPI specification making possible to generate a client SDK in multiple language with a code generator like Kiota making possible to use the API in .NET, Go, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby and TypeScript.

⚠️ A scene patch dictionary defined in the run section of your mididings script is required to work correctly, check the run function documentation for more information on how to structure your patch.

📘 API documentation

• stagedings manual
• mididings manual

Frontend

A responsive multiclient, real-time interface for scene/subscene navigation

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Features

• Web UI with real-time scene/subscene updates
• FastAPI backend with full REST and WebSocket support
• Multiple clients supported
• Use the mididings OSC interface
• It exposes a fully compliant OpenAPI spec for easy generation of SDK clients in any language, enabling flexible remote control of mididings

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The frontend allow

• Direct navigation through scenes and subscenes
• Exposes the Restart, Panic, Query and Quit commands

The backend allow

• Endpoints for direct navigation through scenes and subscenes
• Endpoints to the Restart, Panic, Query and Quit commands

ℹ️ About commands

• Restart will restart mididings process
• Panic send not off to all ports and all channels
• Quit stop mididings, be carefull
• Query is a work in progress

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⚒️ Installation from PyPI

NOTE: This will also install mididings with OSC and AutoRestart support allowing a full working stack.

# Create a Python virtual environment
$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate

# Install stagedings including mididings as a dependency
$ pip install stagedings

▶️ Running the application

$ stagedings [--host HOST] [--port PORT]

Options

• --host
  • FastAPI server bind address
    • Default: localhost
    • Use 0.0.0.0 to allow network access or the server IP address
• --port
  • FastAPI + WebSocket server port
    • Default: 5000

Use cases

Local development (single machine)

$ stagedings

This runs everything locally on:

http://localhost:5000

Network / multi-client setup

When clients access the server from other machines, you must expose the backend:

$ stagedings --host 0.0.0.0

or:

$ stagedings --host 192.168.1.100

Accessing the UI

Once running, open in a browser:

http://dings.local.com:5000

or:

http://192.168.1.100:5000

High Level Overview

🔗 Communication Workflow

💬 Feedback & Contributions

We welcome bug reports, feature ideas, and contributions! Please open an issue or discussion

📜 License

All files in this repository are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 or later of the License.

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