SCANNY
1.1.0 beta 24
1.1.0 beta 24HelperDATE12 OCT 2026CHANGES05BETA
HELPER: ask Claude about your cameras, panels and routing with CMD+J. It reads Scanny's live state and a fact-checked gear library, and answers in short lines.
SAFETY 01
Private by default
IPs, MACs and serials are replaced with tokens before anything leaves the Mac and shown as real values only on your screen, unless you turn SEND IPs SERIALS on. Logins, licences and RCP map files are never sent. Questions and answers are never written to disk; Activity gets one line per answer with no question text.
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HELPER: ask about the fleet with CMD+J
CMD+J opens a strip over any page. While you type, matching devices and library notes show at once, with no network. Return asks Claude, which reads Scanny's live state through 9 read-only tools: fleet, camera detail, link history, fiber, Livegrade, activity, ALEXA menu rows, routing (RCP → camera → base station → output) and the gear library. It also knows which page and camera you are on. Answers stream in short lines, with a dim line per tool it ran and a cost line. The HELPER reads only; it never changes a camera or a setting.
Sign in with your Anthropic account
Settings › HELPER › SIGN IN WITH ANTHROPIC opens your browser; Scanny never sees the password, and keeps the sign-in token in memory only. It uses Anthropic's ant tool (brew install anthropics/tap/ant). An API key works instead if you prefer. Usage bills your Anthropic Console account, not a claude.ai plan.
Fast and cheap by default, with a backup
HAIKU 5.5 answers by default, at about $0.001 a question; SONNET 5.5 and OPUS 5.5 are in Settings for deeper answers. If HAIKU declines or is busy, the question goes once to SONNET 5.5 and is marked backup. All the model work runs on Anthropic's servers: the strip costs Scanny nothing when closed, and the library search runs locally in milliseconds.
A fact-checked gear library
The HELPER searches a library written for truck work: Scanny itself, ARRI ALEXA 35 / 35 Live and LPS-1, Sony FR7 and system cameras, Panasonic PTZ, SKAARHOJ, CyanView, Proton, GoPro and other mini cams, and broadcast plumbing (sync, rates, SDI, tally, routers, colour pipeline, Livegrade). Every section was checked against the makers' public pages. Drop your own notes in the KNOWLEDGE folder (Settings › HELPER › REVEAL) and they are searched too.