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Kayenne Contribution Tally Protocol

The on-air flags indicate whether the switcher considers the output to be
on-air. Outputs used as aux buses may be paired in order to provide a
video/key pair to an external device. The mode flags indicate whether the
two buses of a pair are independent (video/video) outputs or are being
used as video/key pair.

This differs from the Kalypso/Zodiak protocol in the following ways:

The modes and source ID bytes are in different order.

The output modes and on air state for outputs 1-4 are in separate bytes
than the same data for output 5-8.

Source Names

Switcher source names are not really part of tally, but often provide valu-
able information to devices which utilize switcher tally information. Source
names are limited to 12 characters and each is sent in its own message along
with the source ID. Source names are not necessarily unique. The name pro-

Table 16. Kayenne Output Status

b7

b6

b5

b4

b3

b2

b1

b0

Notes

Off set

Command Code 1 (0xF)

Output Status (0xB)

Message code

0

Command Code 2 (0xF)

Block ID 1 = Outputs 1-8

Block ID 2 = Outputs 9-16

Block ID 3 = Outputs 17-24
Block ID 4 = Outputs 15-32
Block ID 5 = Outputs 33-40
Block ID 6 = Outputs 41-48

Message code

1

0

0

Mode 3/

4

Mode 1/

2

Out 4

onair

Out 3

onair

Out 2

onair

Out 1

onair

Mode (0 = VV, 1 = VK)

2

0

0

Mode 7/

8

Mode 5/

6

Out 8

onair

Out 7

onair

Out 6

onair

Out 5

onair

3

Output 1 source (1-146)

4

Output 2 source (1-146)

5

Output 3 source (1-146)

6

Output 4 source (1-146)

7

Output 5 source (1-146)

8

Output 6 source (1-146)

9

Output 7 source (1-146)

10

Output 8 source (1-146)

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