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📜 ANSI/SCTE 104 2019r1
Automation System To Compression System Communications Applications Program Interface (API)

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🚀 Production Quality
This library is functionally complete and is ready for use in production.

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A complete implementation of the SCTE-104 TCP/IP protocol in Typescript. Supports both client and server, and includes a command line client.

Summary

This library provides a low-level, compliant implementation of the Automation System to Compression System TCP/IP signalling protocol specified in SCTE-104. It can be used to make calls to compliant SCTE-104 "injectors" or to implement SCTE-104 "injectors" themselves.

The library supports all of the messages for Provisioning and Alarm Management (PAMS), encryption, scheduling, and nearly all the messages that are outside of the "Simple Profile" specified in SCTE-104. Messages which are not natively supported can still be sent and received using custom implementations.

Uses @/bitstream to handle bitstream serialization/deserialization.

Command Line Client

This package also includes a simple command-line client for sending quick splice start/end messages to a SCTE 104 injector/automation system.

npm install @astronautlabs/scte104 -g
scte104 --server injector.example.com splice-start --immediate --program-id 12345

For complete set of options, use scte104 --help.

Client Library

import * as SCTE104 from "@astronautlabs/scte104";

async function main(argv : string[]) {
    let client = new SCTE104.Client();
    await client.connect('10.10.10.0');
    await client.init();

    // Signal a spliceStart_normal in immediate mode
    await client.multipleOperations({
        operations: [
            <SCTE104.Splice>{
                opID: SCTE104.MOP.SPLICE,
                splice_insert_type: SCTE104.SPLICE_START_NORMAL,
                splice_event_id: Date.now() / 1000,
                unique_program_id: 22211,
                pre_roll_time: 4000,
                break_duration: 0,
                avail_num: 0,
                avails_expected: 0,
                auto_return_flag: 1
            }
        ]
    })

    // spliceEnd_normal
    await client.multipleOperations({
        operations: [
            <SCTE104.Splice>{
                opID: SCTE104.MOP.SPLICE,
                splice_insert_type: SCTE104.SPLICE_END_NORMAL,
                splice_event_id: Date.now() / 1000,
                unique_program_id: 22211,
                pre_roll_time: 4000,
                break_duration: 0,
                avail_num: 0,
                avails_expected: 0,
                auto_return_flag: 1
            }
        ]
    })
}

main(process.argv.slice(1));

Server Library

import * as SCTE104 from '@astronautlabs/scte104';

let server = new SCTE104.Server();
server.messageReceived.subscribe(event => {

    // For example:
    
    if (event.message.opID == SCTE104.OP.INIT_REQUEST) {
        await event.connection.sendMessage(new SCTE104.InitResponse().with({
            result: SCTE104.RESULT.SUCCESS
        }));
    }
});
server.listen();

The class of event.message is dependent on the type of message being sent. It can be a subclass of SingleOperationMessage or an object of type MultipleOperationMessage. You can compare the opID field of the message to the constants found in SCTE104.OP and SCTE104.MOP, depending on the type of operation you are interested in.

event.connection represents the incoming network connection which sent the message. This allows you to respond once you've completed processing on the incoming message.

You (as the caller of the library) are expected to provide your own application logic. The Server class just exposes the ability to accept a connection from a '104 client, subscribe to notifications of incoming messages from that connection, and send messages back.

Roadmap

• Provide an easy to access API for SCTE-104 encoding/decoding for auxiliary usecases
• Provide an optional higher-level, opinionated fluent API on top