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Phone remote

A web remote on the phone, reached with a token the Studio makes.

The phone remote is a web page the Studio serves to a phone on the same network. It needs no app. The Studio’s token makes sure only the devices you gave the code can use it.

What the remote does

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  • Shows the program picture.
  • Shows the script’s title and the show clock, with the slides’ back and forward arrows.
  • Shows each layer’s shots as cards. Tap a card to put it in preview, double-tap to take it live. A layer’s Clear card takes the layer to nothing the same way.
  • Gives each shot card a tab on its right, as the tile in the Studio has: a lamp for each shot it brings along and its Auto Out. Tap the tab, or keep your finger on the card for half a second, to put the shot in preview with what it brings along; double-tap the tab to take them all live. A tap on the rest of the card is the shot alone.
  • Has Start Show, Record, Stream, FTB (Fade to Black) and Take in a bar at the bottom. Stopping a recording or a stream asks first.

The phone remote on a phone: the program picture with the show clock, each layer’s shots as cards with their tab, Clear and LIVE, and Record, FTB and Take at the bottom

It follows the phone’s light or dark appearance.

Reaching it

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The Studio listens on a port, 8800 unless you change it in Settings › This Mac › Remote. The remote is at /remote on that port, the prompter at /prompter. You rarely type them: the Remote button in the toolbar, Window › Phone Remote Code (⌥⌘R) and Window › Prompter Code show each as a QR code to scan, with Send to iPhone… to send it with AirDrop. The phone must be on the same network as this Mac.

Settings › This Mac › Remote: the phone remote’s QR code and address, Send to iPhone…, then Port, Status and Token with Copy and New Token (a sample token in this picture)

The token

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Without a token, anyone on the network could switch and stream. So every device other than this Mac must show the token:

  • The QR code and Send to iPhone carry it in the address (?t=…). A phone keeps it once it has opened the page, so a bookmark keeps working.
  • A controller on another machine sends it as the X-Live-Producer-Token header, or adds ?t=<token> to each address.
  • Programs on this Mac itself need none.

A device without it gets a page that says to scan the code again.

A new token

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Settings › This Mac › Remote shows the token with Copy and New Token. A new token shuts out every phone and controller with the old one, until it scans the new code. Use it when a device you no longer trust has the old one.

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Describes Live Producer 0.330 · 10 November 2026

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