Creating Leaderboard screens

Audience: Event organisers and operators setting up spectator-facing displays.

A screen is a live Leaderboard display you configure once and then open as a web page on a TV, laptop or tablet. Each screen has its own ID, its own set of classes, and its own layout, so you can run several at once — for example one TV showing the elite classes and another showing the juniors. Because a screen is just a web page, nothing is installed on the display device: you point its browser at the screen's URL and leave it running. See How meshO Manager works for the one-server, many-browsers model.

Leaderboard screens are the arena displays you build here. They're separate from the built-in Spectator and Kiosk views — the public, self-serve pages competitors open on their own phones — which need no setup. See the glossary for the distinction.

The Screens page

Open Screens from the event navigation. It has three sections:

• Leaderboard TV Screens — a bank of TVs managed together. See TV screens.
• All Leaderboard screens — every screen in the event, in a table.
• Commentary — open the announcer's live feed. See Commentary.

Every event has one built-in screen called all, which shows every class. It's the simplest thing to put on a single display.

Creating a screen

In the All Leaderboard screens section, click Create New Screen, give it a Screen ID, and click Create. The ID is how you refer to the screen and it appears in the screen's URL, so keep it short and memorable (elite, juniors, arena1). It must be unique within the event.

A new screen inherits your global screen defaults (set on the Settings page) for things like fonts and columns — you can fine-tune any of them afterwards. It starts with no classes, so the next step is to choose what it shows.

Choosing which classes a screen shows

In the screen's row, the Classes column controls what appears:

• Click the expand arrow to see the classes currently on the screen as chips.
• Click the + (add) button to open the Add classes dialog — search by class name (the table also shows which other screens already show each class), tick the ones you want, and Add.
• Remove a class by clicking the × on its chip.
• You can drag class chips between screens in the table to move them around quickly.

The all screen is special — it always shows All classes and you don't manage its class list.

Adjusting a screen's settings

Click the gear icon in a screen's row to open its settings. There are two tabs.

Settings — the layout and content of the display:

Setting	What it does	Default
Columns	How many class columns sit side by side (1–6). More columns fit more on a wide TV.	2
Font Size	Base text size. Larger for a TV seen from across the arena.	10
Name Column Width	Small / Medium / Large room for competitor names.	Medium
Club Display	Hide the club, or show Abbreviations or Full Names.	Hide
Max Radios	How many radio-control splits to show per course.	4
Competitor Time Display	Elapsed time, Difference (behind the leader), or Both.	Both
Max Places Per Class	Show All finishers or just the top 3–10.	All
Show Club Icon	Show each club's badge.	on
Auto-scroll	Scroll long class lists automatically so everyone gets airtime.	on
Show Header	Show the logo, event name and clock at the top. Turn off to reclaim space.	on
Show Relay Team Members on Single Line	Compact relay rows.	off
Show Projected Times…	Estimate finish times for runners seen at a radio control but not yet finished.	on
Show Start Time	Show each competitor's start time.	on
Show Class Names in Header	Label each column with its class.	on

Snapshot — click Refresh Snapshot to capture a live screenshot of the screen as it currently renders. It's the quickest way to check the layout looks right without walking over to the TV. (A snapshot only works while the screen is open somewhere.)

Use Apply to save and keep tweaking, or Save to save and close.

Keeping an eye on a running screen

Once a screen is open on a display, its row reports live health so you can spot a TV that's dropped off:

• Last Heard From — when the screen last checked in. Green means it's reporting now; grey means it's gone quiet.
• FPS — how smoothly it's refreshing (green is healthy, orange is marginal, red is struggling). Click the number for a history graph that also marks disconnects, reconnects and reloads.
• DC / RL — counts of disconnections and force reloads, flagged when they happen.

Deleting a screen

Open the screen's settings (gear icon) and click Delete, then confirm. The built-in all screen can't be removed.

Related

• TV screens — set up and drive a whole bank of arena TVs at once
• Commentary — the announcer's live feed
• Results — the operator-facing results and exports