Pixotope API - Services

Pixotope Service is a new concept introduced in Pixotope 2.0. A Pixotope Service is an independent process that connects to our Data hub network. A Pixotope Service

implements ZeroMQ - https://zeromq.org/
correctly responds to the available messages - Pixotope API - Message Scheme
optionally exposes all of it's "per-show"-data in a State - Pixotope API - State concept

Service	Scope	Responsibility
CTS (Tracking)	1 per machine	Transform and provide tracking data to the Engine
Daemon	1 per machine	Starts other services and manages machine settings
Director	1 per machine	User interface for Pixotope
DirectorAPI	1 per machine	Various internal responsibilities
Engine	1 per machine	Rendering and compositing 3D graphics and video
Pipeline (VideoIO)	1 per machine	processing incoming and outgoing video including video keying and providing it to the Engine
Store	Singleton	Stores per show data for all services and handles other backend functionality