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ØJE CUE MONITOR.

Show-control tooling
Tooling 2026
A real-time LTC cue system that kept a arena and open-air tour locked to the same clock — across departments, devices and roles.
Show controlLTC / SMPTECross-platformOpen source
ØJE CUE MONITOR
Overview
Year
2026
Category
Tooling
Platforms
macOS · Windows · Web remote
Studio
ØJE — Vienna
48.21°N, 16.37°E
Role
Software development, real-time systems & cross-platform delivery — ØJE Studio.
Challenge
Seven days before the tour opening in Zurich, no existing cue system fit the requirements.
Yll Limani's TSN Tour 2026 opened with two sold-out 5,000-capacity nights. The show runs from stage-based Ableton LTC, requiring real-time coordination across nine departments and roles: FX, audio, lighting, VJ, director, broadcast, stage management, backline, and artist team.
Off-the-shelf solutions like QLab and CuePilot operate as master clocks themselves — but this production needed the stage as the clock source. No tool provided filtered views tailored to different roles across a local network without custom implementation.
Solution
CUE MONITOR was built in one week — concept through native deployment.
The system reads LTC from the stage clock and surfaces active cues to all teams simultaneously, with role-specific filtering. Cues match by timecode rather than list order, accommodating show variations between rehearsals and performances.
Each department receives customized information: lighting excludes backline notes, management omits cue numbers, broadcast hides production comments. A web remote enables access via any networked device — iPhones, iPads, laptops — with password protection and no installation required.
Details
One shared real-time reference instead of static PDFs, spreadsheets and radio coordination.
CUE MONITOR launched during the debut arena and open-air tour. ØJE handled full system development: concept, real-time architecture, UI design, native macOS and Windows builds, and cross-platform delivery within the tour timeline.
The switch reduced radio traffic and improved coordination clarity. Operators logged notes during performances, which the team used between dates to refine pacing progressively.
ØJE CUE MONITOR — Performance Mode, cue list, iPhone remote and show settings
«We were in our own seats, watching the show, and we could feel the whole production breathing in sync.» — tour partner feedback
Following the opening leg, ØJE released CUE MONITOR as v1.0 beta, open source, for smaller crews on similar productions.
Tools
01
Python · PyQt6
02
libltc — SMPTE/LTC decode
03
aiohttp + WebSocket remote
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PyInstaller — native builds
Credits
Software development, real-time systems & cross-platform delivery — ØJE Studio.
ØJE Studio
Software development, real-time systems & cross-platform delivery
Artist
Yll Limani
Partners
Artist management — Three60 Music
Broadcast — Labas Krabas
See also
01 2026 Isle of Summer '26 Festival Stage 02 2026 Array Installation 03 2025 Visionaries XR Production
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