External Control

Expert Topic for experienced builders.

Big idea

External control lets you start and stop playback, seek time, and synchronize Bottango from other systems via REST API, SMPTE LTC, or driver callbacks.

Bottango contains a REST API to allow you to control Bottango from your own scripts, applications, and other related use cases. This could be used to integrate Bottango with your own or other robotic control applications, or it could be used for you to make a hardware controller to start and stop different animations at a physical button press.

API control right now is oriented around getting information on and controlling the playback state of Bottango. But it will continue to expand. See REST API for the main entry point.

As well, Bottango can be controlled and synchronized with an SMPTE LTC signal.

Finally, there’s an API in the hardware driver itself with some limited control to control Bottango from your hardware driver.