Audio-over-IP Network details - Livewire+, Dante & AES67 planned?

[DuToitJH]

I use Livewire+ Audio-over-IP in our studios and the networking of the system is a nightmare, to model and maintain with many Excel files, screen shots, port addresses, streams numbers etc.

I have tried with NetBox to model it using standard Virtualization to create something that may work for me to try and model Livewire devices.

For this who do not know ... Livewire+ uses an additional network adapter on computers, and other devices. You give a device an IP Address on the Livewire Network, then you create a unique port address 1 to 32000, that Livewire+ uses as a stream number internally. You refer to this number for example if you wish to use PGM 1 audio output somewhere, you use its stream number and the audio is used. There is also the network stream addresses that get created from these stream number and the IP of the device, according to the following formula in Excel, as an example: 239&"."&192&"."&INT(A3/256)&"."&MOD(A3,256), where A3 is the location of the Livewire Stream Code.

I normally like to create the stream number using the last octet of the IP, for the first 3 numbers and the last 2 incrementally for the device audios 01, 02 etc. So an IP of 10.235.50.122, will result in a LW+ number of 12201 for its 1st device audio, 12202 for second and so on.

I would like NetBox to calculate these for me when I change IP for example, so these can be kept up to date.

From these you can then get Network Stream Addresses to be used by Dante and AES67 connections to Livewire+.

I am new to programming, but I want to see if it is possible if somebody using similar systems had thought of documenting it using NetBox?

If it is not for everybody, maybe a Plugin for Livewire, Dante and/or AES67 so us needing it can use the plugin?

With Dante you will have similar items to add.

I was thinking along plugin idea...

I would like to have the LW+ numbers nearly like IPAM is done, so I can use the numbers everywhere from devices and have a master list of which I had used etc. Does anybody have a similar idea?