Installation and Configuration

If you haven’t installed the CasparCG engine yet, you can download the latest version from here. Installation instructions can be found in many online resources. I suggest looking in the following places:

GitHub – https://github.com/CasparCG/server
CasparCG forum – https://casparcgforum.org/
CacparCG – http://casparcg.com

In your studio you can implement Simple Labels as in the diagram:

The Simple Labels computer and the CasparCG computer should be in the same IP address class and the same LAN network. Both machines should have communication open on TCP/UDP ports 5250 and 5263. Simple Labels in Free Version uses channel 1 and layer 20 on CasparCG.

Simple Labels and CasparCG can, of course, be running on one computer, but this will be possible only when we release our application on the PC platform. It will be soon 🙂

After installing the CasparCG engine, I suggest adding the IP address of the computer where Simple Labels will be running to the configuration file. You can add it under the “osc” section, for example: <address>192.168.0.31</address>. Thanks to this, Simple Labels will automatically monitor the server status and retrieve its IP address. This is a very convenient and secure solution.

You can add it under the “osc” section, for example: <address>192.168.0.31</address>. Below is a sample CasparCG configuration file for the Simple Labels computer with the IP address 192.168.0.31:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<configuration>
    <paths>
        <media-path>media/</media-path>
        <log-path>log/</log-path>
        <data-path>data/</data-path>
        <template-path>template/</template-path>
    </paths>
    <lock-clear-phrase>ilec</lock-clear-phrase>
    <log-level>info</log-level>
    <channels>
        <channel>
            <video-mode>1080p5000</video-mode>
            <consumers>
            	<screen>
               	 	<device>1</device>
                	<windowed>true</windowed>
			<key-only>fase</key-only>
			<x>5</x>
                	<y>10</y>
			<width>1480</width>
                	<height>0</height>
            	</screen>
		<screen>
               	 	<device>2</device>
                	<windowed>true</windowed>
			<key-only>true</key-only>
			<x>1490</x>
                	<y>10</y>
			<width>1480</width>
                	<height>0</height>
            	</screen>
                <system-audio />
	</consumers>
        </channel>
    </channels>
    <controllers>
        <tcp>
            <port>5250</port>
            <protocol>AMCP</protocol>
        </tcp>
    </controllers>
    <amcp>
        <media-server>
            <host>localhost</host>
            <port>8000</port>
        </media-server>
    </amcp>
<osc>
  <default-port>6250</default-port>
  <disable-send-to-amcp-clients>false</disable-send-to-amcp-clients>
  <predefined-clients>
    <predefined-client>
      <address>192.168.0.31</address>
      <port>5253</port>
    </predefined-client>
  </predefined-clients>
</osc>
</configuration>

HTML5 templates should be placed in the CasparCG server directory “CasparCG/Templates”. In the free demo version of Simple Labels, the template file must be named “SimpleLabels_template.html”. The declared fields that display data from Simple Labels are “_title” and “_subtitle”.