Broadcast Copy Manager
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The suite, one door - from Broadcast Copy.

One download that carries the studio. The manager is a native Windows
application: it shows your station and your suite's live status, launches
every module, and installs and updates the modules themselves from the
Broadcast Copy release registry - each artifact verified against its
published sha256 before a single file is written.


PREREQUISITES
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Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Nothing else. There is no .NET runtime to
install: the manager ships with its own. Modules you install through it
carry their own prerequisites and say so before they need them.


INSTALL
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Right-click Install-BroadcastCopyManager.ps1 > Run with PowerShell, or:

    powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "Install-BroadcastCopyManager.ps1"

It installs for the current user and never asks for administrator rights.
It touches exactly these places:

    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Broadcast Copy Manager   program files
    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Broadcast Copy Manager            configuration
    Start Menu > Broadcast Copy                      shortcut
    Desktop                                          shortcut (skip with -NoDesktopShortcut)
    HKCU ...\Uninstall\BroadcastCopyManager          so it appears in Settings > Apps

It creates no services, no scheduled tasks, no autostart entries and no
firewall rules.


FIRST RUN
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Start Menu > Broadcast Copy > Broadcast Copy Manager.

The dashboard opens with your configuration. On a fresh machine that is a
starter page - open Updates (bottom right) to install modules, and press
Settings to name your station and add your apps. The configuration is one
plain JSON file, meant to be read and edited by hand:

    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Broadcast Copy Manager\manager-config.json

Reinstalling or upgrading never overwrites this file.


UPDATES
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The Updates window reads the Broadcast Copy release registry, compares it
with what this machine has, and installs or updates modules on request.
Every download is verified against the sha256 the registry publishes; an
artifact that does not match is discarded, never installed.

The same pipeline runs unattended, for scripted or scheduled updates:

    BroadcastCopySuiteManager.exe --install <package> --log out.log

exits 0 on success, 1 on failure.


UNINSTALL
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Settings > Apps > Broadcast Copy Manager > Uninstall, or from the install
directory:

    powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "Uninstall-BroadcastCopyManager.ps1"

It removes only what the installer created. Your configuration is kept, so
a reinstall picks up the same station; add -Purge to remove that as well.


SUPPORT
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https://broadcastcopy.ai
