AMWA IS-04 NMOS Discovery and Registration Specification

What does it do?

• Allows control and monitoring applications to find the resources on a network
  • Resources include Nodes, Devices, Senders, Receivers, Sources, Flows...

Why does it matter?

• Enables automation and reduces manual overhead in setting up networked sytems
• Essential for dynamic deployment

How does it work?

• Media Nodes locate IS-04 registry using DNS-SD (unicast preferred)
• Media Nodes register their resource information with HTTP + JSON
• Applications query with HTTP and/or subscribe with WebSocket

Getting started

There is more information about the NMOS Specifications and their GitHub repos at https://specs.amwa.tv/nmos.