Comment by BizarroLand

I work in the courtrooms sometimes for some lawsuits and we use the ATEM Mini Pro to switch between ipads and pcs for both defense and plaintiffs sides.

Normally, when I'm running tech, the switcher is right next to me, easy peasy.

But recently I've been in cases where I have to sit far away due to the court layouts.

They can be controlled over network, but our setup requires that the devices have no internet connection, or rather, adding an internet connection to the system is at best impractical. However, there is wireless networking involved for some of the apps.

I realized that I could connect my phone to the wireless networking, plus in the Atem Mini Pro to that same network over ethernet, and control the Atem remotely.

I checked Blackmagic's website, and even though they offer an SDK and pretty decent software for controlling the devices, there are no apps to control them.

Talked to chatgpt and 20 minutes later on their $20/m plan I had an app that can find the device on the network, connect to it, switch between the inputs, turn on and off the various audio functions, and fade to black/unfade all from my android phone.

I still had to download android studio and build the app but it was not difficult at all. Extremely niche use case, very specific solution.