NDI Groups

NDI groups enhance the efficiency and management of NDI-based workflows by providing a structured way to organize and control the visibility and access of NDI sources and destinations within a network.

NDI devices support two different kinds of Groups: Send and Receive.

A device can be part of different Groups, some Groups only in the Send or Receive mode:

Scenarios

In this scenario, NDI Device 01 is sending discovery information to Groups 02 and 04. Devices part of the Receive Groups 02 and 04 can discover and receive NDI streams from Device 01.

NDI Device 02 is sending discovery information in Groups: Public, 01, 02, and 04.

NDI Device 03 is sending discovery information in Groups: Public and 03.

There are different ways to define Groups in NDI Devices:

Screenshot of NDI Access Manager tool

In MS Windows and MacOS, Groups are defined in the NDI Access Manager, which is part of the free NDI Tools:

The Groups string for each Send and Receive operation must not exceed 248 bytes in length, which means that the total length of the combined Group names should not exceed 248 characters.

In Linux, NDI Groups can be defined in the NDI configuration file located in the home directory of the effective user: "ndi-config.v1.json"

Here is the way to configure Groups in the configuration file:

}, "groups": { "send": "Public", "recv": "Public,Group 01,Group 02" },

Hardware NDI Devices must support NDI Groups to be compliant with the NDI standard specifications.

Here are some examples of hardware devices with NDI Groups support: