Posted August 17, 201014 yr Is anyone aware of any documentation regarding the details that the C4 controllers use to communicate with over TCP/IP?
August 18, 201014 yr Author Thanks for the tip. I was actually talking about the protocol between Directors during actually consumer use, not the dialog between Composer et al
August 18, 201014 yr Directors don't talk to each other. You can only have a single director in a system. You can have multiple *controllers*, but only one of them can be the master, which runs director.The master controller, running Director, talks to the other controllers through various ports (sockets) to do various things. The different services running on the controllers are the method that the master controller talks to others (dtserver, audioclient, audioserver, netusbserver, etc.).RyanE
August 18, 201014 yr Author "The master controller, running Director, talks to the other controllers through various ports (sockets) to do various things. The different services running on the controllers are the method that the master controller talks to others (dtserver, audioclient, audioserver, netusbserver, etc.)."That's precisely the protocol I'm referring to. The protocol to instruct other controllers what to do during actual A/V system use.
August 18, 201014 yr C4Soap is *not* the protocol used for Director to talk to dtserver, etc.The internal protocols used by Director are not published anywhere that I know of, other than internally. They're proprietary, and were not designed to be accessed except through Director.The Director <--> Navigator interaction is C4Soap, as is the Director <--> Composer, but none of the ones the OP is asking about use C4Soap.RyanE
August 18, 201014 yr Well, there are people here that have written programs (Bog, XC420) using commands sniffed out with wireshark that (I thought) were C4SOAP.tanzelmo, maybe reach out to bog and xc420 and see if they can help. They've reverse engineered a lot of that stuff.
August 18, 201014 yr Author wire sharking was exactly what I've been preparing to do - just thought someone had done something already to give me a leg up.Pardon my naivety, but what do you mean by "reach out to bog and xc420"?
August 19, 201014 yr Yeah, those programs *do* use the C4Soap protocol, just like Navigator does, but that's not what the OP was asking about.RyanE
September 1, 201014 yr Author Has anyone successfully wiresharked network traffic between controllers?I have been able to capture traffic between Composer and an HC1000 master controller (and it is SOAP),but I never see anything from the HC1000 to the HC300 where the A/V device is connected?I also never see anything between controllers using the real remote (rather than the Composer's "Execute")
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