One file describes a device's I/O — so design tools never re-key a spec sheet again.

The problem

AV and control-systems designers — and the CAD tools they use (AVCAD, D-Tools, XTEN-AV, Stardraw, and others) — have no universal, machine-readable source of truth for a device's connectors, signals, power, and control. That data lives in PDF spec sheets and gets re-keyed by hand into every tool's product database, with errors.

ODIO defines a single file a manufacturer can publish alongside a product's support documents, describing the device's externally observable I/O accurately enough to draw with.

extron/dtp2-t-211@a · device
{
  "$schema": "https://opendeviceio.org/schema/v0.1/device.schema.json",
  "odioVersion": "0.1.0",
  "id": "extron/dtp2-t-211@a",
  "device": { "manufacturer": "Extron", "model": "DTP2 T 211" },
  "ports": [
    {
      "id": "hdmi-in-1", "label": "HDMI INPUT 1", "direction": "input",
      "connector": "hdmi-type-a",
      "link": { "type": "hdmi", "standard": "hdmi-2.0", "bandwidthGbps": 18 },
      "signals": [
        { "domain": "video", "transport": "hdmi", "maxResolution": "4096x2160" },
        { "domain": "audio", "transport": "lpcm", "maxChannelsPerCircuit": 8 }
      ]
    }
  ]
}