Remote outstations are a key part of Wintermute's ecosystem; they allow for rich control options for performers, technicians and FoH staff in rehearsal and show running, and have a variety of information and chat displays to further facilitate their work.

The software is available in the downloads section, and will run on any Android device version Pie (9.0) or later.

Beyond installing and starting the software on the device, and setting a static IP, all other configuration is done within Wintermute:

• Initialize the Remote system with init_remotes - the port will be 7100, and the IP should be the broadcast address for the subnet of the network the remotes sit on.
• Set up each of your remotes as nodes with new_node - again, the port is 7100, name and type are arbitrary, the tcp flag should not be used, but the keepalive flag can be set to notify users of a failure of disconnection
• Each of your remote nodes should the be configured using the node_remotesetup command.

This is the minimum to get each remote station displaying buttons.

Beyond this, you can then:

• Add further pages with the node_addpage, giving each page a layout
• Populate each page layout with layout_objects, which are the various interfaces/displays that the software supports.

Note also the reset_remotes command - this should generally be run before each show to force the remotes to re-aquire their settings.

Note that the software is designed for screens in landscape orientation.