The macOS control surface for Blackmagic ST 2110 systems. Auto-discover NMOS devices, route video, audio and data with a node graph or matrix, and keep the whole fabric healthy — network, timing and streams — from one window.
A first look at ZyRoute, from the ZyApp YouTube channel.
Built for broadcast engineers running IP video plants — from NMOS discovery to switch health and PTP timing, without a rack of proprietary software.
Finds NMOS nodes and registries automatically over mDNS (IS-04). Add a device by IP manually when discovery can't cross VLANs.
Drag a sender's output pin to a receiver's input — video, audio and data shown separately, colour-coded, like an Unreal-style node canvas.
Prefer a traditional router grid? Switch to a crosspoint matrix view and make connections with a single click (IS-05).
Applies routes via the standard IS-05 Connection API, using the sender's SDP transport file with an automatic transport-params fallback, then verifies the active route.
Read live per-port bandwidth, link status and errors from any SNMP switch — Netgear, Cisco, Arista, UniFi and more. Standard IF-MIB, any vendor.
Tracks the PTP grandmaster across every device and warns you the instant the fabric splits into two clocks — before audio and video drift.
Get a macOS notification the moment a device loses lock, a grandmaster changes, or a switch port takes errors — even with the window closed.
ZyRoute warns before a route pushes a switch uplink past its capacity — catch a 2110 oversubscription before it breaks the picture.
Capability probes, PTP status, and an event log that records link, sync and route changes — export a JSON report for troubleshooting.
A router panel for people who have never seen the app: pick a destination, pick a source, done. Whole devices, not streams — one tap carries the video, audio and ancillary together. TAKE is on by default, because an accidental click on a live destination is the mistake this view has to be safe against.
Feed a DeckLink IP card and see the picture inside ZyRoute — with audio and level meters. Check a source on the preview bus before you send it anywhere real, or dock the monitor onto the canvas as a card.
A 10G port that quietly comes up at 100 Mbit still says "connected" everywhere — but uncompressed HD needs about 2 Gbit, so the picture simply stops. ZyRoute names the port, the device on it, and what the link actually needs.
Bonjour is multicast and cannot cross a tunnel or a VLAN — which is why discovery comes up empty from home, even though IS-04 and IS-05 would work perfectly. Add a device by address, or sweep the subnet; ZyRoute reads the API to tell a node from a registry so you don't have to.
Routing 4K into an HD-only receiver used to be a bare error code. Now it says which format the sender is putting out, what the receiver accepts, and which of the two has to change.
Say which device is on which switch port — by hand, over the top of the MAC-table guess that goes blank across a VPN. A fault then lands on the device you know, not on "port 7".
Monthly subscription
ZyRoute is $4/month. Try it free for 7 days in the app, then subscribe to keep using it.
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Start free trialZyRoute is a macOS app for controlling and monitoring SMPTE ST 2110 IP video systems. It automatically discovers NMOS devices (IS-04), routes video, audio and data streams using a node graph or a crosspoint matrix (IS-05), monitors network switches over SNMP, and watches PTP grandmaster sync across the whole fabric. It is built for broadcast engineers working with Blackmagic and other 2110 gear.
Yes. ZyRoute is designed for Blackmagic Design's ST 2110 range — such as the 2110 IP Converters and other NMOS-enabled devices that support IS-04 discovery and IS-05 connection management. Because it uses the open NMOS standard, it also works with 2110 equipment from other manufacturers that implement IS-04/IS-05.
NMOS (Networked Media Open Specifications) is the AMWA family of open APIs used to discover and connect ST 2110 devices. ZyRoute supports IS-04 for discovery and registration and IS-05 for connection management, working with either peer-to-peer mDNS discovery or a central NMOS registry.
Yes. The built-in Fabric Monitor reads live per-port bandwidth, link status and error counters from any switch with SNMP enabled, using standard IF-MIB OIDs — so it works vendor-neutral with Netgear, Cisco, Arista, UniFi and others. It can even warn you before a route would oversubscribe a switch uplink.
Yes. ZyRoute reads PTP lock state from each NMOS device and compares grandmaster identity across the whole system. If devices start following different grandmasters — a common cause of audio and video drift in 2110 — it flags the split and can send an instant alert. ZyRoute does not act as a grandmaster itself; that role belongs to dedicated hardware.
ZyRoute costs $4/month. A 7-day free trial is available in the app, with no credit card required to start the trial.
ZyRoute runs on macOS 13 (Ventura) or later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.