just:connect acts like a database and allows you to setup and manage Channels, just:live/just:play user interfaces and just:out engines. Use just:connect to create Channels, define volumes and folders on your storage system (repository folders) where the engines and user interfaces look for data, manage users and make use of security and redundancy functions.

Key Features

• Engine Configuration: Use just:connect to configure just:out which does the final output.
• Channel Setup: Setup and maintain one or multiple Channels from a single just:connect instance. You can also use multiple just:connect instances to manage multiple Channels.
• Rights Management: Control who may connect to a Channel and what rights a user has to alter a schedule. In addition you can define passwords for each user for additional security.
• Centralized Schedule: For each Channel a single copy of the schedule is held by just:connect and sent to the clients.
• Redundancy: Optionally a second just:out engine can be defined for each Layer to act as a redundant Playout node. In this case every change made in just:live/just:play will be sent to the Master and the Redundant engine automatically.
• Automatic Channel Backup: There is a backup feature that allows you to automatically backup all of your Channels to a second destination.
• Additional Functionality: Since version 2.0 we also support onCore-based functions like Failover Switch or FAB Subtitle integration to a Channel. Please → contact us for more info.

The following chapters will show you how to create a Channel for the first time, but also how to add a new Offline and Online Channel to the existing list of Channels. In addition to the basic setup, we will describe how to add further functions to a Channel using the Expert User mode.