Helm Monitor (iOS)

What this does: Helm Monitor joins a Cues session on an iPad or iPhone and shows the Monitor page, frame by frame. It plays no audio and sends nothing back.

Status

Not released yet.

What it shows

The Board layout is the Cues Monitor page:

• Show clock: SHOW CLOCK · <TRACK>, then the timecode, large. Drop-frame rates read with ;.
• Strip: the track’s waveform, cue ticks and the playhead.
• NOW / NEXT: cue number, name and a count-in box. The next cue steps up as the playhead passes each one.
• Cue list: the live cue held three rows from the top, scrolling as cues fire.
• Bar counter: BPM and the bar (BAR 12/64), when the track has a beat grid.

On iPhone the Board drops the strip and the bar counter.

Join a session

The device asks. The host allows or denies it.

• Passcode on: the device enters the code first. Then Ask waits for Allow; Open lets it in at once.
• Passcode off: the device asks without a code.
• Approved before: straight in, no code, no Allow.

From the network list

1. On the Cues host, View → Sessions… → Host this show.

2. Open Helm Monitor. Sessions on this network lists every host it finds: name, address, policy, and APPROVED when this host let the device in before.

3. Tap Join, or Rejoin when approved.

   A host with its passcode on shows Join… instead. It opens a field under the row: type the 6 digits, tap Join with passcode. Under Ask: “This session needs its passcode. The host then allows or denies this device.” Cancel closes the field.

4. iOS asks for Local Network access on the first join. Allow it. Without it the app cannot reach the host.

5. Under Ask the screen reads ASKING THE HOST…: “This device has asked to join. The host allows or denies it.” On the host, press Allow on the toast or in Requests.

6. The board appears. Cancel on the waiting screen withdraws the request.

Scan the QR

1. On the host, click Show join code….

2. On the device, under Scan the session QR, tap Scan QR and point the camera at the tile. With the passcode on, the QR carries it.

3. Under Ask, wait for Allow. Under Open the device is in at once.

A join link tapped in a message opens the app and joins the same way.

Type it in

Use it when the device cannot see the host’s screen or the list.

1. Under Or type it in, type the Address (192.168.1.20:5355).

2. Type the Fingerprint (26 characters). Both are under Show join code… on the host.

3. Type the code in Passcode (“if the session has one on”). Leave it blank when the session has none.

4. Tap Ask to join, or Join with passcode with one typed.

Recent hosts

Hosts this device joined. Each row shows its address and the start of its fingerprint.

Button	Means
Rejoin (with APPROVED)	The host let this device in. Straight back in.
Ask again	The host denied or forgot this device. It asks again.

Long-press a row for Forget.

Lay out the screen

Tap anywhere on the board, or the ≡ handle top-right, to open the menu. DONE or a swipe down closes it. Changes apply at once.

LAYOUT

Preset	Panes
Board	The whole Monitor page
Cue list + clock	Cue list and clock, side by side. Stacked on iPhone.
Sequence + cue list	Sequence monitor and cue list. Stacked on iPhone.
Four up	Sequence monitor, clock, cue list, waveform. iPad only.

Under PANES pick each pane’s source: Board, Clock, NOW / NEXT, Cue list, Waveform strip, Bar counter, Sequence monitor.

• Long-press a pane for its source and Stacks: ….
• Layouts are kept per session on this device. A new session starts with the last layout used.

STACKS

1. Pick the pane, when more than one reads cues.

2. Tick the stacks it shows, or All. Each row shows the stack’s colour and cue count.

• NOW / NEXT, the ticks and the list in that pane follow the picked stacks.
• Limited by the host. The host allows this device some stacks only. The others never reach it.

DISPLAY

Setting	Does
Waveform strip	The strip on the Board
Bar counter	The bar counter on the Board
NEXT count-in	TIME, BEATS or BOTH
Keep screen on	The screen stays on while joined
LINK LOST sound	The switch is there. No sound plays yet.

SESSION

Session, Host, Host fingerprint, Role, Link. TIMING holds the clock readings support asks for.

LEAVE asks first: the first tap turns it into LEAVE THIS SESSION? for 4 s. Tap again to leave.

DEVICE

Row	What
Label	What the host calls this device (FOH iPad). “Applies on the next join.” while it differs.
Device	The real device, read-only (iPad Pro 13-inch (M5))
Identifier, App version	For support
Fingerprint, Device id	Match this device in the host’s Devices table
Approved by	The sessions that let it straight in

The Sequence monitor pane

The host’s Sequence Monitor layout from the show: single, quadrants or thirds, splits included. Clock, cue list, waveform, beat counter, sequence, logo and lane zones draw as on the host’s second display.

• Video and image lanes show their slot: the lane’s colour, its name and media not on this device. No media is copied to the device.
• The host can turn the pane off per device: “The host has turned the sequence monitor off for this device.”

Leave, switch away, come back

• Switch to another app and Helm Monitor leaves the session. The board shows LINK LOST.
• Come back and it rejoins on its own as an approved device: Rejoining the host….
• Removed by the host: the Join screen reads “Removed from the session: removed by the host” with Join again · . It asks again, with the code when the passcode is on.
• Denied: “The host denied this device.” with Try again · .

What it is not

• Not a remote. No GO, no transport, no edits.
• Not an audio device. It never plays sound.
• Not a backup. If the host stops, the board freezes on LINK LOST.
• Not a TAKE follower. When a Cues standby takes the session over, the iPad does not move. Join the new host from Sessions on this network. Passcode off: Join takes it straight in, approved on the old host. Passcode on: type the code; under Ask the new host presses Allow.

When it goes wrong

• “Local Network” was denied. iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Local Network → turn Helm Monitor on. Relaunch the app.
• No sessions found. The host must be on this network and hosting. Same Wi-Fi as the host’s switch? Is Cues hosting? Scan the QR or type the address instead.
• Joined, then LINK LOST straight away. Guest Wi-Fi (hotel, venue) can stop devices reaching each other. Put the device on the show switch’s Wi-Fi.
• The host Mac is on two networks. Pick the Interface under Show join code… that the device is on.
• The host denied this device. Ask again in 4 s. The host pressed Deny. Wait, then Try again.
• This session is members only. Sign in to Helm Cloud to join. Helm Monitor has no cloud sign-in. Ask the host to switch to Ask.
• This session needs its passcode. The host has its passcode on. The field opens with Join with passcode · . “Cues shows the passcode under View ▸ Sessions.”
• Wrong passcode. The field stays open. The host may have pressed New code: read the current code on the host and type it again.
• This session has no passcode. Ask to join instead. Leave the field blank.
• The session is full. The host holds 16 devices. Ask the host to remove one.
• The host no longer has this device. Ask to join again. The host removed its approval.
• Waveform missing on the strip. The host sends a waveform only once it has drawn it. Open the track once on the host. The next show update carries it.
• Two iPads look the same in the host’s Devices table. Give each a Label under DEVICE. The host can also rename it: Devices → ⋯ → Rename.