LUMIX Tether for BGH1 & BS1H Live Production

The DC-BGH1 and DC-BS1H are Panasonic's box-style cinema cameras — no viewfinder, no top LCD, just a body designed to be bolted into a rig and driven remotely. LUMIX Tether is the official way to drive them. Combined with the camera's Ethernet port (PoE+ on the BGH1), you get a production-grade remote camera for a fraction of a broadcast price.

What's special about box bodies

Both cameras boot straight into Tether-ready mode. Power-up to live-view in LUMIX Tether takes about 10 seconds over PoE+, and the camera reports "ready" before the lens has finished its first AF sweep. Every setting that exists on the camera lives in LUMIX Tether's panel — there's no menu you can only reach physically, because there is no physical menu.

PoE+ wiring

1. Use a 30 W (PoE+) injector or switch — 802.3at, not 802.3af. The BGH1 won't run on 15 W PoE.
2. Cat6 cable, terminated properly. PoE is sensitive to wiring; bad RJ45s cause boot loops.
3. Assign the camera a static IP from the menu: NETWORK → IP Address Setting → Manual. Keep all cameras on the same /24 subnet as your laptop.
4. In LUMIX Tether, Connect → LAN. The app scans the subnet and lists every BGH1/BS1H that responds.

Multicam: up to 12 cameras

The multi-view tab is what these cameras were built for. Tile up to twelve BGH1s or BS1Hs in one window, click any tile to drive that camera, and use the Sync commands to roll record on all of them simultaneously. Frame-accurate sync needs the cameras' Sync IN ports wired to a genlock source — Tether handles the start command, not the timing pulse.

PTZ-style remote with AW-UB10 / AW-UB50

If you're using a Panasonic AW-UB10 or AW-UB50 PTZ base under the BGH1, stay on LUMIX Tether v2.8. The newer 2.10+ builds dropped the IRIS/zoom panel integration that the UB10/UB50 controllers expect. Panasonic's release notes spell this out explicitly — both versions are on this site's download page if you need a side-by-side.

What LUMIX Tether will not do for live

It's a control surface, not a video router. Live view in Tether is for framing and focus; the production feed has to come out of the BGH1's SDI port into your switcher (vMix, ATEM, TriCaster). Don't try to feed the program from Tether's preview — it's compressed and runs on system clock, not video clock.

Recommended baseline rig

• 3× BGH1, each on a separate PoE+ port of a Netgear GS308EPP switch.
• Laptop (M-series Mac or Ryzen 7+) on the same switch via wired Ethernet.
• SDI from each BGH1 into a Blackmagic ATEM Mini Extreme for the program feed.
• LUMIX Tether handling exposure, white balance, recording start/stop and clip metadata.