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Routing
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Overview
Getting started
What is Bitfocus Buttons?
Install Buttons and get started
Manage your Buttons license
Activate Buttons offline
Find your way around Buttons
Create your first backup
Add an ATEM connection
Choose a control method
Choose an installation path
Install Buttons on Debian or Ubuntu
Understand HA clustering
Kubernetes HA
Update or remove Buttons
Positions
Understand positions
Create a position
Add controls and sections to a position
Create your first button
Use a connection's presets
Build more capable button actions
Add more feedback to a button
Organize controls in a section
Shift Section
Organize controls with a Folder Section
Add a Popover Section
Build and reuse a Shared Section
Build a Router Section
Understand Custom Routers
Custom Router panel
Surfaces
Surface compatibility
Add and attach a surface
Device orientation
Connections
Update a connection's module safely
Monitor and troubleshoot a connection
Router integrations
VideoHub and AJA KUMO
Utah Scientific BPS
Generic SW-P-08
Nevion VideoIPath
Arkona BLADE//runner
Routing
Physical routing
Configure ports and labels
Take a physical route
Understand route status
Topology graph
Routing Presets
Get started with virtual routing
Configure Nested Shapes
Reverse routing
Tielines
Routing Projects
Routing settings
Troubleshoot a route
Tally
Understand the Tally system
Send ATEM tally and labels to a UMD
Interpret Active Tally state
TSL/UMD connections
Diagnose tally problems
NMOS
Understand NMOS in Buttons
Connect Buttons to an NMOS Registry
Built-in Registry Server
Configure NMOS connections
Discover and adopt
Browse the NMOS inventory
Manage NMOS multicast addresses
Diagnose NMOS problems
Understand Cuelists
Build a Cuelist
Read and advance a running Cuelist
Control a Cuelist from a Position
Workflows
Understand workflows
Build your first workflow
Reuse a group of workflow nodes safely
Troubleshoot a workflow
Recipes
Sequence a timed automation
Call an HTTP endpoint from a workflow
REST endpoint
Use variables
Understand variable scope
Understand nested variables
Update expressions for v1.8
Plan and use Tags
Access
Create and manage users
Create roles and assign permissions
Grant access to specific resources
Show different controls by role
Sessions
Set up PIN and NFC sign-in
SSO
Get started with SSO
Connect a generic OIDC provider
Connect LDAP or Active Directory
Map identity claims to roles
Secure a Buttons deployment
Integrations
External control
Connect to Bitfocus Listener
USB Relay
Install USB Relay on Windows
Install USB Relay on macOS
Install USB Relay on Linux
Install USB Relay on a Raspberry Pi
Get started with the Control API
Secure and monitor the Control API
Control API reference
API reference
Administration
Enable and manage installable features
Services and health
Configure and monitor scheduled backups
Restore a backup and verify it
Export or import Buttons configuration
Store and rotate connection secrets
Replace the HTTPS certificate
HA backup and recovery
Settings
Collect support information
Reference
Glossary
Button Inspector reference
Network ports reference
Expressions
Internal actions reference
Routing Presets panel reference
Startup configuration reference
Workflow nodes
Connection workflow nodes
Workflow workflow nodes
Internal workflow nodes
Position workflow nodes
API workflow nodes
Utility workflow nodes

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Buttons/Routing

Routing

Routing in Buttons connects sources to destinations on the connections you have added, such as an ATEM or a video router. Start with the physical model, label your ports, then take and inspect routes from the Routing view. Presets let you recall a known setup in one step.
The later guides are for technical staff who design routing for a facility: virtual routing puts a logical layer between operators and hardware, Tielines make several routers behave as one, and Projects keep the routes held for a production together so they can be released when it is over.

Physical routing

How sources, destinations, ports and bundles form a physical route, and how display labels and label strategy fallback work.

Configure ports and labels

Read the Ports Config table, give ports User, Setup and Installation labels, hide unused ports and understand port warnings.

Take a physical route

Select a source and destination in the Routing view, inspect the staged port mappings and use Take to send the route to a connected system.

Understand route status

Compare the Live source reported by a controlled system with the source Buttons has requested, and read contribution, staged and lock indicators.

Topology graph

Read the Graph view to confirm physical, virtual and tieline paths visually, and know which views show live data and which show requests.

Routing Presets

Build a routing Preset from staged or active routes, save and edit it, and add it to a Custom Router or button for one-press recall.

Get started with virtual routing

Create Shapes and Virtual Bundles from physical bundles, connect them with a Matching Preset and take a first virtual-to-virtual route.

Configure Nested Shapes

Build Feed and PCR Shapes that include other Shapes as slots so a whole room or remote production can be routed as one selection.

Reverse routing

Model return video, intercom and confidence feeds as reversed slots and enable Reverse Routing on a Matching Preset to route them with the forward path.

Tielines

Create Relations and Routing Rules so routes can cross between routers, then preview paths, take cross-router routes and release occupied Relations.

Routing Projects

Create a routing Project for a production, take retained routes into it, then release, reassign and archive those routes when the production ends.

Routing settings

Set the default expiry mode for new Projects, require a Project for tieline routes and choose whether every route is persisted as a route request.

Troubleshoot a route

Free wires held by other route requests, understand why a request was rejected, read the routing report and check retained request health.

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