# Sofie Quantel Gateway client

This is the _Quantel Gateway Client_ library, a part of the [**Sofie** TV Automation System](https://github.com/nrkno/Sofie-TV-automation/). This client-side library is used for communication to the [Sofie Quantel Gateway](https://github.com/nrkno/sofie-quantel-gateway).

## General Sofie System Information
* [_Sofie_ Documentation](https://nrkno.github.io/sofie-core/)
* [_Sofie_ Releases](https://nrkno.github.io/sofie-core/releases)
* [Contribution Guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md)
* [License](LICENSE)

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## Usage

### Prerequisites

- A Quantel ISA SQ system and the IP address or DNS name of the ISA manager(s).
- An installed and running Quantel Gateway, with IP address and port number.

### Installing for your application

Use `npm` or `yarn` to install the package. As a typescript project, type definiitons are
included. One of:

    npm install quantel-gateway-client
    yarn add quantel-gateway-client

### Usage in an Application

Create a Quantel Gateway Client instance and initialize it to connect to to the gateway.

```javascript
import { QuantelGateway, Q } from 'quantel-gateway-client'

const quantelClient = new QuantelGateway()
await quantelCient.init(
	'quantel.gateway.url:port',
	'quantel.isa.url', // or ['quantel.masterISA.url', 'quantel.slaveISA.url, ...]
	'default',
	serverID
)
```

If the serverID is not known, before calling `init()` request the details of all servers:

```javascript
await quantelClient.connectToISA('quantel.isa.url')
const servers = await quantelClient.getServers('default')
```

Then initialize the client as above.

Once finished with the class, call `dispose()`.

### Documentation

The library is self-documenting using TypeDoc annotations. Details of the REST API that this library is a client for can be found in the [Quantel Gateway documentation](https://github.com/nrkno/sofie-quantel-gateway#http-api).


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