Sofie iNews-FTP Gateway

An application for piping data between Sofie Server Core and iNews FTP based workflow.

This application is a part of the Sofie TV News Studio Automation System.

Usage

// Development:
yarn start -host 127.0.0.1 -port 3000 -log "log.log"
// Production:
yarn start

Setup

After starting the gateway, go to the Sofie settings, you should find an option for INEWS GATEWAY.

Under hosts, add the IP addresses of your iNews servers. Then add the queue names for each iNews queue you want to ingest into Sofie e.g. INEWS.QUEUE.ON-AIR.

Then add the username and password for your iNews system.

Going back to the Sofie Rundowns view, your queues will appear as rundowns.

CLI arguments:

Argument	Description	Environment variable
-host	Hostname or IP of Core	CORE_HOST
-port	Port of Core	CORE_PORT
-log	Path to output log	CORE_LOG

Installation for dev

yarn

yarn build

Dev dependencies

• yarn: https://yarnpkg.com

• jest: yarn global add jest