Ingest at the source
A source node sits beside the console or local lighting network, listens for sACN or Art-Net, and forwards the configured universe ranges to the relay.
Built for remote lighting workflows
Bridge light where the network does not.
BeamBridge is a WAN-native relay and monitoring layer for sACN and Art-Net workflows. It is designed for the messy real-world gap between a clean local console network and remote output nodes sitting in forests, trucks, stages, rooftops, or anywhere else the show ends up living.
Coming Soon — Beta 0.6 in development
sACN ingest
Art-Net ingest
Central relay fan-out
Remote monitoring
Relay Server
Routing, stream state, monitoring, and server-side fan-out.
BeamBridge Core
Source Node
Listens locally, captures selected universes, uploads once.
Pi 4 + 4G
Output Node A
Remote output on location, subscribing only to what it needs.
Forest / Exterior
Output Node B
Truck, stage, utility playback, or distributed practical control.
Stage / Truck
Lighting console / onPC / local control network
One upstream
The console-side node uploads once. The server does the splitting.
Selective universes
Each remote output can subscribe only to the universes it actually needs.
State-aware relay
Not just packet forwarding. BeamBridge is built to observe and understand the stream.
What it is
BeamBridge keeps local lighting workflows local, then transports only the useful part over WAN. Instead of trying to drag multicast and full network behavior across the public internet, it uses field nodes and a central relay to move selected universes in a controlled, monitorable way.
Relay in the middle
The server receives the stream, maintains state, handles subscriptions, and fans out the signal to one or many remote output nodes.
Output where it matters
Remote nodes receive only what they need, then re-emit it locally on site. Cleaner infrastructure, less nonsense, fewer improvised network crimes.
What it is being built to do
The first public version is focused on the core workflow: reliable ingest, controlled transport, server-side relay logic, and enough monitoring to actually understand what is happening in the field.
sACN and Art-Net input
BeamBridge starts with the protocols that are most practical and useful in real production environments.
Central server fan-out
Source nodes upload once. The relay handles distribution, so you do not multiply traffic at the console-side uplink.
Per-universe routing
Remote outputs can subscribe to only the universe range they actually need, whether that is 1–4, 1–10, or something stranger.
Monitoring and observability
The relay is intended to evolve into a visibility layer as well, with stream activity, node health, and universe-level diagnostics.
BeamBridge is coming soon.
Early work is focused on building a clean, robust core for WAN-native sACN and Art-Net transport, relay logic, and monitoring. If this sounds useful, interesting, or suspiciously relevant to your kind of chaos, say hello.
hello@beambridge.net