TestFlight
iPhone
- Install TestFlight from the App Store.
- Open the invitation — it opens inside TestFlight.
- Tap Install. Allow Local Network when iOS asks, or the console cannot be heard.
Companion app · public beta · 0.6.1 · iPhone, Android
LIGHTBOOKPHOTO — stage photos on every GO
The stage, photographed on every GO
Listens to the console on the local network — grandMA2, grandMA3, ETC Eos — and photographs the stage at GO, at fade end, or both. The frames land on the cue cards of your LIGHTBOOKSHOW file. It never sends anything to the console.
iPhone — TestFlight. Android — Google Play open test. How to install →
The app only listens. It never sends anything to the console and cannot change your show.
I · The link
Two presses of GO and it is connected
CONNECT TO CONSOLE walks through the console setup — MIDI Show Control over Ethernet on grandMA2, OSC on grandMA3 and Eos — and runs a live test: packets show up as they arrive. When the first GO comes in, the app asks you to press GO on the main sequence, then the key you want to use as the photo key. That is the whole setup.
Link test
Console settings
II · The shot
At GO, at fade end, or both
Choose when the frame is taken. AT GO catches the cue as it is called; AT FADE END waits for the light to settle, timed from the cue list; GO + FADE END takes both, and an extra frame can be added at an offset of your choice. Then TO CAMERA, TAP TO STAND BY, and the console does the rest.
Mode
Standby
Standby, not a shutter button
A recording is started once, before the run. From then on every GO on the console gives a shot — the phone sits on its stand and nobody touches it.
The camera, locked
Exposure, white balance and focus can be locked for the run, so the frames of one show are comparable with each other and not with the house lights.
The cue list comes along
LOAD CUE LIST takes a .lightbook from LIGHTBOOKSHOW or the cue list straight from the console — a grandMA sequence as XML, ETC Eos as CSV. Fade-end timing and the cue text on every frame come from it.
No console at hand
grandMA2 onPC and ETCnomad are free and work as a console from a computer on the same network — enough to try the link and the capture at home.
III · The record
Every frame carries its facts
A table in the style of a console cue list is printed onto the frame: date and time, show clock, cue number and text, which sequence fired, fade time. Settings › OVERLAY decides what goes on and what stays off. The originals can be kept alongside, untouched.
A frame
What to print
IV · After the show
The frames land on the cue cards
Open the recording, pick the frames per cue — three for the printed sheet, three spare — and export a .lightbook. It opens in LIGHTBOOKSHOW on the phone or the desktop with the photographs already on the cue cards, next to the console data they belong to. One file per show, as before.
Picking the frames
Recordings
Same file, same rules
The .lightbook written by LIGHTBOOKPHOTO is the one LIGHTBOOKSHOW 0.13.0 reads: six frames per cue, 1–3 on the sheet, 4–6 spare.
Offline, on the phone
Recordings and frames stay on the device. Nothing is uploaded; a file leaves the phone only when you share it.
Good to know in the beta
Landscape only. The camera works while the app is open — keep the phone on power for a long run. Shows still travel between the two apps as a file.
Privacy
Camera and local network, both used only for what is described here. The full text: privacy policy →
Public beta
Where to get it
iPhone — through TestFlight. Android — through the open test in Google Play.
Google Play
Android
- Open the app page in Google Play — with the button or the QR code.
- Tap Install. If Google Play first offers to join the test, agree.
- New builds arrive through Google Play like any other update.
Google Play will not install it? Become a tester first
Tell us when it works on your show
Feedback from anyone who runs it on a real show is what the beta is for — which console, which network, where the shot landed. Leave your email and we will write when new builds are out.
LIGHTBOOKSHOW, the show bible →Or write to info@lightbookshow.com
LIGHTBOOKPHOTO
Version history
Every test build, newest first.
0.6.1
iPhone, Android · first beta
October 2026
First public test
- Photographs the stage on every GO from grandMA2, grandMA3 or ETC Eos — at GO, at fade end, or both.
- Every frame carries a table of facts in the style of a console cue list: date and time, show clock, cue number and text, which sequence fired, fade time.
- CONNECT TO CONSOLE on the home screen walks you through the console setup and runs a live test; the first GO asks you to press GO on your main sequence, then the button you want to use as a photo key.
- Load the cue list from a LIGHTBOOKSHOW file, a grandMA sequence XML or an ETC Eos CSV.
- Camera: lock exposure, EV and white balance. The overlay on the frame is set up in SETTINGS › OVERLAY.
- After the show: step through the cues in RECORDINGS, pick frames, export a .lightbook that opens in LIGHTBOOKSHOW with the photographs already on the cue cards.
- The app only listens: it never sends anything to the console.
iPhone through TestFlight, Android through the open test in Google Play. Landscape only.