CastAway is your remote broadcasting companion for AutoCast. It lets you monitor your station, fire cart buttons, control automation, and go live on the air — all from a web browser. No special software to install. Just open the page, connect, and you're on.
Whether you're at a county fair with an iPad, calling a ball game from the press box, or doing the morning show from your favorite cafe, CastAway puts your station in your hands.
CastAway is a remote faceplate for AutoCast. It doesn't run your station — AutoCast does that. CastAway simply shows you what AutoCast is doing and lets you send commands back. Think of it as a smart handset connected to the switchboard at the station.
When you connect, AutoCast sends you the current state: what's playing, what's coming up, your ButtonPad buttons, the weather, and a live audio feed of the station. When you press a button, CastAway sends the button ID back to AutoCast, which does the actual work. CastAway never needs to know what a button does — it just draws it and reports when you click it.
CastAway is designed for one-person remote broadcasts. You don't need an engineer, a truck, or any hardware beyond a laptop and a microphone. Everything you need fits in a bag.
CastAway was designed with a simple principle: the station runs itself. AutoCast handles all the intelligence — scheduling, playback, crossfades, time corrections, weather forecasts. CastAway just gives you a window into that world and a way to interact with it.
This means if your internet connection drops at the county fair, AutoCast keeps playing. The station never goes silent because of a CastAway disconnection. When your connection comes back, CastAway reconnects automatically and picks up where you left off.