welcome to hive
One network. Every box on stage talks to every other box.
HIVE is a thing you plug into your network. From that moment on, every console, instrument, light, projector, camera and phone you bring near it can be wired into anything else — by you, in a browser, with no driver disks and no spreadsheets of IP addresses.
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How it joins
Plug a HIVE bridge into your LAN. It listens for every protocol stage gear speaks (Dante, sACN, Art-Net, OSC, NDI, BLE) and announces every device it sees, fingerprinted by model. Nothing to configure.
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What it knows
Every routine the team has ever solved — colour patches, fixture profiles, signal-flow tricks, safety checks — lives in an on-device knowledge store. The agent uses it to fill in defaults and warn before a bad patch hits the wire.
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What you do
Open the web portal on any browser. Drag, patch, cue, automate. Save a setup as a scenario and share the link — the receiver re-creates the exact rig on their side.
What's inside
HRD
The bridge — JOIN-04
A 1U fanless node. Two RJ-45 with PoE, a fibre uplink, the old-school connectors (DMX, MIDI, analog), and Truecon / Powercon in for venues where wall power is whatever was left over. Built for a touring rack: you can drop it, spill on it, and it still boots. See it →
SFT
The agent
A small program that runs on the bridge and on any laptop you let it. It discovers devices, holds the open knowledge base, talks to the web portal, and runs your scenarios — offline, locally, no cloud required. Distributable as a single installer; offline-first by design.
WEB
The portal
The thing you're using right now. Open it on a phone, an iPad, a front-of-house laptop. Patch, cue, run the show. Multiple operators can co-edit the same rig in real time.
KNW
The knowledge
Founding documents, fixture libraries, signal-flow lore and the community's collected fixes. Versioned, attributable, and replayable — the agent cites what it leaned on when it suggests a patch.