For AV manufacturers

Partner with OpenAVC

We build and maintain a driver for your equipment, and put it in front of the integrators who use OpenAVC.

OpenAVC is a free, open-source control platform. It runs on almost anything: a mini PC, a server, a Raspberry Pi, or our own appliance. Integrators use it to control the equipment in a space, and because it's open, they own what they build and can change it whenever they want.

When your equipment has a driver in OpenAVC, any integrator on the platform can build it into a space. They can even simulate it first, designing and testing the whole space against your equipment before it is on site, or before they have bought it. The easier your product is to design around, the more places it ends up in.

The badge partners display on their products and marketing.

What we do

We write the driver, and we keep it alive.

You don't have to staff it, and you don't have to hand it to a third party and hope. We write it, test it on your real hardware, and update it when your firmware changes. A driver that works well reflects on you, so we treat it like it's ours.

We teach OpenAVC to recognize your equipment.

When you send us a unit, we capture its fingerprint: the way your product answers when something looks for it on the network. From then on, an integrator with your equipment on site has OpenAVC find it, identify it as yours, and install the right driver in one click. Nobody goes hunting for the driver. That fingerprint is the real reason we ask for physical hardware. We can't build it from a spec sheet.

We put your product in front of the people who buy it.

Your equipment gets the "Works with OpenAVC" badge, yours to use wherever it helps you sell, and a place on our partner page. We feature partner equipment in the demos, walkthroughs, and posts we put in front of integrators.

What we ask

A unit of each product you'd like us to support. Loaners are fine. They stay yours, and they go back whenever you want them.
Your control protocol or API docs, and someone we can email with a question.
Permission to use your name and logo to show your equipment works with OpenAVC.

What it costs

Nothing. OpenAVC is better the more equipment it supports well, so supporting yours is worth our time. No fee, now or later.

Let's talk

Email us and tell us what you make. We'll take it from there.

partners@openavc.com

Want the details first? Read the partnership agreement (PDF).