Mockingbird Media Connector

Mockingbird

A connector that sings back any media you ask for, but never leaves the cage. Unless you open it.

Built-in
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Third Party

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Mockingbird is a media connector that provides a catalogue of 100 placeholder images for testing and prototyping GraFx Studio templates before a real media source is available. It can run in two modes: offline (default), where no external service, credentials, or network access are required, and remote, where each asset is fetched from picsum.photos.

Installation

See installation through Connector Hub

Modes

Mockingbird operates in one of two modes, controlled by an environment (runtime) option.

Offline mode (default)

Each asset returns a pre-encoded 1×1 colored PNG placeholder — no network access is needed. Frame dimensions are set correctly per asset using the realistic values returned by the connector's detail endpoint, so layout and cropping behaviour is representative.

Remote mode

Each asset fetches a deterministic photo from picsum.photos, using the asset ID as a seed. The same asset always returns the same image, making remote mode reproducible across sessions. Requires outbound network access to picsum.photos.

Configuration

Once installed, open the connector in your Connector overview and go to Configuration tab.

The only option is Use remote images (runtime option, text): set to "true" to enable remote mode. Any other value (including empty) uses offline mode.