Control

Control is the operator face of the show graph: Action Deck pages, Stream Deck layouts, and Audio (Library, Cartwall, SFX Generation, Spatial Layouts) for SFX, beds, and spatial speakers.

Action Deck

Action Deck is a tile surface for GO, STOP, cartwall page openers, voice, AI, OSC, HTTP, and whatever else you bind. It is the same graph as Overview and Automation — not a separate toy mode.

On a fresh Default show the deck may be empty — that is normal. Build page 1 yourself, or load Blue Lamp — Theater Show only if a show/sample list lists it.

Build a button (Community Free 1.0.190)

Exact chrome on 1.0.190:

  1. Open Control → Action Deck. Create or name a deck if needed.
  2. Click an empty cell.
  3. In the inspector, click Add button (not “Add tile”).
  4. Set the Label field.
  5. Scroll to Actions → event tab Press → Add action.

A useful first page:

  • GO / STOP — primary take and halt (Style: GO amber, STOP red). Press can be any catalog command — a no-op is fine for the first prove-out.
  • Cartwall openers — Add action → Navigate pages → Go to dynamic page… (cartwall, timecode, plugins) → pick the cartwall page. Create cartwall pages before wiring navigate actions.
  • Voice / AI — intercom and assistants (optional; later page until trusted). For Voice LLM: bind the intercom / Voice LLM listen action after enabling Voice LLM under AI → Assistant and/or I/O → Add Endpoint → Voice LLM (voice-llm).
  • OSC / HTTP — external fire paths (optional)

Blue Lamp — Theater Show is the sample layout for Getting Started when built or when that show is present at Blue Lamp Theater — not a guaranteed Community Free preload. In that sample, cartwall pages are named House and Bits. Walkthrough: Getting Started · 03 Action Deck.

Operator tips

  • Keep page 1 sparse: GO, STOP, cartwall openers, maybe voice later.
  • Park experimental AI / Plugin Builder tiles on a later page until you trust them.
  • Prefer one obvious GO — do not duplicate amber GO semantics across brand chrome (GO stays a deck key, not a logo color).

Stream Deck

Physical Stream Deck layouts mirror Action Deck pages. Same cues, tactile surface. Pair the deck in I/O, then edit pages under Control. A hardware layout exists only if you create or pair it — do not expect it on every fresh install.

Audio · Library, Cartwall, SFX Generation, Spatial Layouts

Under Control → Audio, these are sibling tabs — Cartwall is not nested under Library; Spatial Layouts is not a separate Spatial top-nav.

Library → Upload

Fresh Community 1.0.190 starts with an empty audio library — no preloaded stings.

  1. Open Control → Audio → Library.
  2. Empty state reads: “No clips in this category. Use Upload to add audio files.”
  3. Click primary Upload → modal Upload audio.
  4. Drop zone: “Click here to select file or drag files into this area to upload” (mp3 / wav / zip).
  5. Upload at least one short file before any cartwall Play an audio file picker has something to choose.

Do not use Cloud SFX Add to Library for first-timer upload. Optional live CDN samples: sample-sting-a.wav / sample-sting-b.wav. Overview card: Import audio & play an SFX.

Cartwall SFX

  1. Open Control → Audio → Cartwall.
  2. Create pages (sample names when walking Blue Lamp Theater: House, Bits, optionally Transitions / Alerts).
  3. Add a tile → wire Play an audio file → pick the Library clip you uploaded.
  4. Route playback toward a network audio device when the room sink is on the network (AES67, ST2110, Sonos, garden speaker, console·Q-SYS, etc.). Guided path: Getting Started · 04.

Skip if you don’t need local audio. If fire says no device, you’re not broken — continue with No sound card — how do cartwall SFX reach a network audio device? or confirm endpoints under I/O → Devices / Integrations. See also Troubleshooting.

SFX Generation (ElevenLabs)

After I/O → Add Endpoint → ElevenLabs (API key):

  1. Open Control → Audio → SFX Generation (this is not Cloud SFX).
  2. Generate, then send the clip to Library and/or Add to Cartwall.

Details: AI · ElevenLabs · Getting Started · 06.

Spatial Layouts

Open Control → Audio → Spatial Layouts (tab id layouts) — optional after 04.

  • Canvas: Add Speaker, Add Spatial Zone
  • Speaker inspector: Name, X, Y; Audio Output dialog = sink picker (Select output…)
  • Spatial Zone inspector: Name / drag; section DMX Position Control → Enable DMX Control, Source Universe, X Ch / Y Ch (1–512), Save DMX Config
  • Runtime: DmxSpatialBridge maps DMX → zone X/Y + SignalR
  • No dedicated spatial OSC panel and no invented bed OSC address — use DMX, script, or OSC → show commands

Guided: Getting Started · 05.