Month: January 2022

ATEM Mini Pro

Blackmagic Design makes some cool production switchers that are reasonably priced and work great. They even distribute an SDK to control them from Windows or Mac programs. Controlling from Crestron is tougher, but not impossible. Some third-party products have sprung up to make it easier, too. In this post, I’m going to walk through how I wrote a module to perform a couple of functions on the ATEM Mini Pro.

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VirtualBox Headless

Collected from the wonderful documentation at https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html.

To see which VMs are available, type:

$ VBoxManage list vms
"dev-site" {2e39d6cc-c307-44f6-b73e-a6f95e0f17b0}

To only see running VMs, type:

$ VBoxManage list runningvms

And to start it:

$ VBoxManage startvm "dev-site" --type headless
Waiting for VM "dev-site" to power on...
VM "dev-site" has been successfully started.