HyperDeck

A HyperDeck is a host like a switcher; commands go to it with --host, or through hdctl, which is bmdctl hyperdeck. Most of it has run on a HyperDeck Studio HD Mini; HARDWARE.md lists what hasn't.

$ bmdctl --host deck status
Deck 1  HyperDeck Studio HD Mini · 1080p25 · session 3m, idle 40s

  transport   stopped · loop off · single clip off
  timecode    00:00:00:00
  clip        1  Intro Loop.mp4  00:01:03:17
  timeline    3 clips
  slot 1      SD1 · mounted · 2h00m left                        ● active
  slot 2      SD2 · mounted · 1h00m left
  remote      on
$ bmdctl --host deck goto interview
Deck 1  stopped · clip 1
  goto        Intro Loop.mp4 → Interview.mov                       35 ms
$ hdctl --host deck play --speed 50
Deck 1  stopped · clip 2
  play        stopped → play 50%                                   41 ms

play --loop --single-clip loops the clip it is on, as a background.

clips lists the timeline (--disk the active disk's files), stop, pause (it holds the frame, and the deck says stopped), next, prev, record [name] and slot <slot> do what they say.

timeline add <name> puts a file of the active disk on the timeline, at the end or --before a timeline clip; timeline remove <clip> takes one off, by its number or name; timeline clear empties it, and asks first. None of them touches the disk: the files stay, and clips --disk lists them.

configuration show lists the deck's settings (video and audio input, file format, record prefix, timecode), and configuration set <setting> <value> changes one, named as show names it (video-input will do for video input). remote off makes the deck refuse every write, bmdctl's included, until remote on. record, next, prev and goto by timecode print a notice that they are unverified on hardware.