Building a Highly Flexible Tally Light

If you've worked in live production you'd know the importance of a tally light. Even with comms it's hard to always keep up with which camera is live. But tally lights can can so much more than just show you if you're live. However I couldn't find any that really cranked it up whilst still being super easy to set up and configure. As such I set out to build the most ultimate tally light of all time. Purely as a proof of concept of course.

Set up

I chose to use ESPHome to build the firmware. It's super versatile and will allow for very easily supporting other esp devices if needed.

Steps

Set up instructions can all be found via the Github repo at github.com/BenJamesAndo/Smart-Program-Tally-Light