Build the show before the kit arrives.

• Cables coloured by type, fibre cores included, with the key on every sheet
• Zones, text and lines from one toolbar (V, Z, T, L)
• Multicores drawn with both ends placed
• Switches with the LAN and SFP modules in each cage, an IP list, a clash warning and a live light on each socket
• A video signal plan page and a title block with show, client, company and drawn by
• The whole schematic as one high-resolution JPEG
• Control panels, KVM, wireless video, Datapath and Magewell in the category strip
• ⌘K search and a signal trace report

Name it once, at the camera.

Type a name on the source and it travels with the signal through every Videohub, ATEM, patchbay and converter it passes. Rename it and the whole chain follows, including the printed sheet and the crew’s page.

CAM 3→ Stage rack 1→ House tie 12→ FOH patch→ Videohub in 7→ ATEM in 4

Kit list

Built from the rig, not kept in a spreadsheet beside it. It counts every lead by type with a cables total, lists the adapter each end of a display cable needs, and runs A to Z if you want it. Out as PDF, Excel and CSV.

Custom panels

Build D-series and BNC panels a hole at a time, lettered A, B, C across the whole show so two racks never fight over a letter. Export writes P-touch CSVs, one file per panel size. Strips are made for amps, blanks and loom cable ends too.

Looms

A loom drawn on the schematic is the same loom on the Looms page. Give each one a location, a length, a colour and its cables with their tidy ends and labels. Looms with cables in them appear in the kit list, so what you prep and what you hire come from one place.

Amps and Public View

Amplifiers carry their own paperwork: a label, a network note, an amp number and an Amp ID, with a name and an input per channel. It prints as an amp channel table per rack and a master list across the show.

Public View is a read-only page for the crew. They do not need PatchHub installed. It has tabs for the patch grids, spare ports and a tickable checklist. Sharing it over the internet from Windows is beta.

Every feature in detail

Rehearse the rig with no hardware. Every controllable device can be emulated, so you can lay out and rehearse the whole rig before the kit lands. Go live (beta) then pushes the names, and the routing if you want it, to a real Videohub or ATEM after a confirm. HyperDeck, AJA Ki Pro and KUMO can be taken live too, but those are beta.

Device data is compiled from published specifications and can be wrong or out of date. Check the hardware in front of you before you trust a printed schedule.

• Videohub routers
• ATEM switchers
• Cameras
• Playback & graphics
• Capture cards
• Presentation switchers
• LED processors
• Projectors
• Recorders
• 2110 gateways
• DAs & converters
• Patchbays

• Freelance engineers turn up with the patch already drawn and the labels already typed, instead of building it on a laptop in the truck.
• Video and audio departments get one way of documenting a rig, so the drawing from the last job is readable by whoever picks up the next one.
• Sound designers spec the amp racks, the comms and the radio mic receivers, and name every channel before the trucks load. Schematics are video only for now. Audio schematics are coming soon.
• Theatre and venue teams keep house ties, wall boxes and FOH runs documented between productions, instead of in one person’s head.
• Production and AV companies send the same file to the designer, the crew chief and the hire desk, and they all read the same rig.

• The screens and recordings on this page are from the app, and the recordings use a demo show. Nothing here is a mock-up.
• Hardware status is stated device by device. Two kinds of kit have been driven on real hardware, and the rest says so.
• The app updates itself, asks before it restarts, and takes a backup before every update.
• Questions and bug reports go to [email protected], or from the Report and Request buttons inside the app.

Tax

Prices exclude VAT or local sales tax, which Polar adds at checkout for your country.

Renewal

Subscriptions renew until cancelled. When a subscription ends, the key stops working.

Seats

Business seats are assigned in the buyer’s Polar account. Each seat holder gets their own licence key.

Moving a key

Each key works on one computer. To move it to a new one, release the old computer in your Polar account.

Offline

Activating a key needs the internet once. After that PatchHub checks the key with Polar when it is online, and a key that has been working keeps working when it is not.

No key

Without a valid key PatchHub opens read-only: everything already there opens, reads and prints on screen, and nothing is deleted.

Without PatchHub the same job is a drawing in one program, a kit list in a spreadsheet, labels typed again into a label printer, and a PDF somebody has to remember to update. Here they are one file, so the paperwork follows the drawing.

Build the rig before the kit arrives.

The beta is free: a key for a month on up to two computers, and the downloads come with it.