PathfinderPC HTTP JSON API
I’ve been helping with the installation of a brand new Axia Livewire network at CSR FM. We’ve been using PathfinderPC to do all of the routing control. It’s all pretty clever stuff — but we wanted to be able to extract information from Pathfinder so that we could do handy things like find out which studio is on air, and use that information to show the right webcam on the website, or use it to add further information to our Now Playing data. Pathfinder has a way of doing this — using Protocol Translators. Basically, it’s a TCP listener (or client, or Serial Port) which accepts and sends commands to a remote device. The protocol is very well documented in the manual, and is very flexible in what it lets you do. ...