SCANNY
1.1.0 beta 1
1.1.0 beta 1ON AIRDATE03 OCT 2026CHANGES24BETA
Safety, speed and RCP visibility for live shows. Anything that still needs a hardware bench ships fail-closed: Scanny refuses with a plain reason instead of guessing.
SAFETY 11
Unknown means on air
An FR7 whose REC or tally is unknown, half-read or more than 5 s old counts as ON AIR. Presets, Home and paint ask first and say why. On an ALEXA, unknown tally is ON AIR too, and a link silent for 3 s reads LINK STALE.
FR7 RCP link stays on while on air
RCP link (CNS) OFF or BRIDGE is blocked on PGM, PVW, REC or an unknown state. Off air it needs Control unlocked and a confirm. Bulk changes read each camera again and skip on-air ones.
START TAKE and STOP TAKE from a fresh read
REC presses only on a REC state read within 250 ms. The confirm says START TAKE or STOP TAKE.
Held moves stop on their own
A held pan, tilt, zoom or focus stops when Scanny goes to the background or quits. It ends by itself after 10 s.
Identify only blinks the tally
Identify blinks the tally only when the camera is known off air. When it can't, the button says why before you click.
Head swap on air locks writes
A head swapped in while on air, in preview, or with tally unknown shows NEW HEAD. Scanny writes nothing to it until you confirm, and controls stay locked after that. The new head's serial shows for 60 s.
Riding on air asks first
The header says RIDING <setting> · <camera> · ON AIR while the arrow keys step a setting. Cmd-arrow stops at an on-air or air-unknown camera; press again within 2 s to go on. On air, CHANGE needs Cmd-Return; Return does nothing.
The RCP wins
While an RCP that is answering drives a camera, or an FR7's RCP link reads BRIDGE, Scanny refuses that camera's paint (iris, ISO, shutter, ND, WB). Moves, presets, REC and stops are never held. One click unlocks that camera for this session; both clicks are logged.
LOCK EVERYTHING covers ALEXA, FR7, Panasonic and RCP
Cmd-Shift-L, the Wall's LOCK ALL and the header chip lock ALEXA, FR7, Panasonic and RCP changes in one click, and stop any held move. The header shows n OPEN while anything is open.
No duplicate IPs
Before an IP change Scanny also knocks on TCP 80 at the new address, so a device that ignores ping still blocks it. SKAARHOJ and CyanView addresses count as taken. An IP CONFLICT banner shows when two devices of any brand share an address.
Labels stay with the right camera
A plot name can't be set on a camera Scanny only knows by IP (No MAC yet, rescan). Activity lines show label [own name · MAC], and renames log the old label. The old 24 Sep label copy is removed; a new Mac starts with no labels.
NEW 04
Who drives this camera
A chip on the FR7 and ALEXA pages, and a flag on Wall tiles, shows which RCP drives the camera and when its keys last moved, or that an FR7's RCP link is BRIDGE.
RCPS n/N in the nav
The RCPs tab shows how many RCPs answer. It turns red when one that answered stops, and the tooltip names it. It sends no new requests.
Names the real network cause
Banners say when macOS's Local Network setting blocks Scanny (with Open Settings) and when another app holds the FR7 control port, naming the app. A CONTROL OVER WI-FI chip shows when cameras are reached over Wi-Fi.
Build on screen, RESTART TO USE
The header shows the running build (1.1.0 beta · commit). A RESTART TO USE banner shows when the app on disk is another build, and restart asks first.
IMPROVED 07
Faster camera switch (no animation)
Switching cameras snaps; page changes are a 100 ms crossfade. Rows and tiles no longer slide when the order changes.
Honest limits
ALEXA pages say how many settings are still UNVERIFIED (shade those from the RCP) and, on a base station, how many are LAN / camera menu only. RCP Allow changes and RCP writes are marked BETA.
LIVE · ASKS or 1-CLICK
A LIVE ALEXA shows whether on-air steps ask or go in one click. Turning 1-CLICK on asks first.
Setup push starts empty
A new setup push starts with no cameras ticked. Tick each camera to push to.
REDO, not UNDO UNDO
Undoing an undo on the RCPs tab is labelled REDO.
Lock everything is CMD+SHIFT+L; Setup Library moves to OPT+CMD+L
CMD+SHIFT+L locks every camera control across ALEXA, FR7, Panasonic and RCP holds. Setup Library is now on OPT+CMD+L.
Caution looks like caution
The RESTART TO USE banner and the BETA badge are amber, so lime only ever means OK or primary.
FIXED 02
FR7 picture comes back on its own
A lost camera picture reconnects by itself (2 to 30 s back-off), and at once when the camera answers again. It doesn't retry after LOGIN REFUSED.
Steadier launch with a full fleet
Fixed a launch-time re-entrancy that could crash Scanny while it built its camera model.