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The remote and its token

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 where the show is in its script: on air and next, the clock, behind or ahead, with Start Show and the deck’s 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.
  • Has Record, Stream, Next Part, 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 keys with 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 0.305 · 29 October 2026

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Release notes

Release notesLive Producer 0.305: the two ways to use Live ProducerLive Producer 0.304: new stand-in drawingsLive Producer 0.303: a new look for the documentationLive Producer 0.302: tooltips in one sentenceLive Producer 0.301: the inspector and the sheets get the ⓘLive Producer 0.300: a small ⓘ beside what it explainsLive Producer 0.299: quieter SettingsLive Producer 0.298: a Help menuLive Producer 0.297: sharper pictures of the inspectorLive Producer 0.296: the documentation, first versionLive Producer 0.295: the documentation site