v.1.0.8 does not work with v.1.0.6 templates.

[jamessandison]

I'm not sure if something has changed between v.1.0.8 and v.1.0.6, but templates that were working with v.1.0.6 are not working in v.1.0.8.

The CasparCG server says that play is not defined and update is not defined when playing the templates, and [webcg-framework] version 2.6.0 does not get printed in the console for my template, but does in v.1.0.6.

I think this may have something to do with the webcg-framework not loading? Interestingly, if I use the CasparCG Client, the template works fine.

[TuomoKu]

Yes, there is an issue with 1.0.8 with a "non-local" CasparCG playout. (Some dev environment related code was accidentally published).

This is fixed in 1.0.9, which will be released today.

[jamessandison]

Thanks @TuomoKu!! I will hopefully have a bit more of a look at the source code and if I can, I'll try and contribute! Love the work you are doing on this!

[TuomoKu]

Fixed in 1.0.9.

[jamessandison]

@TuomoKu I'm still having the same issue in 1.0.9 - I can resolve the issue by copying the template into the SPX-GC which is fine, but it looks like something is triggered differently - I will try and do a bit more digging into the problem too

[TuomoKu]

I should have given a more detailed answer, sorry for that.

Sympthom
If CasparCG reports play is not defined and update is not defined it can mean that there is no template found from the given template path and therefor no javascript functions play and update can be found. (Which is "true", but the actual problem is there is no template to begin with, so the errormessage given by CCG may be misleading...)

Nasty bug in 1.0.8
Accidentally 1.0.8 sent CasparCG a template load command with url "localhost:" which is obviously wrong when CasparCG and SPX-GC are running on different hosts.

Fix in 1.0.9 and a new configuration option
In 1.0.9 there is now a general.templatesource parameter in config.json. The default value spxgc-ip-address uses the IP address of SPX-GC by default for loading templates in CasparCG. But since the IP address automatically detected may be the internal IP (on VM instances, for example) there is now an option to overwrite it with any http-address of the SPX-GC server. The third option is to use a value casparcg-template-path which changes the template load command to obay the template-path value of the target CasparCG server (and file-protocol).

This info is also added to the README.md.

Hope this helps.