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TV screens ​

Audience: Event organisers setting up multi-TV displays at the finish area.

When you're driving several TVs at the arena, TV screens let you create and manage them as a group instead of one at a time. Manager can generate a screen per TV, split your classes across them automatically, and let you change the look of every TV in one go. TV screens are ordinary Leaderboard screens — they're just named tv1, tv2, … and grouped together at the top of the Screens page for convenience.

Creating a set of TV screens ​

In the Leaderboard TV Screens section of the Screens page, click Create TV Screens (or Assign classes if you already have some). The dialog has two steps.

Step 1 — how many, and the default look. Set the Number of TVs, then set the Default Settings for All TV Screens — Font Size, Number of Columns, Club Display, Time Display, and the Show Club Icons / Auto Scroll / Show Header switches. These defaults apply to every TV you create here; you can still adjust an individual TV afterwards. Click Next: Distribute Classes.

Step 2 — split the classes across the TVs. Manager lays out one column per TV (each headed tv1, tv2, … with its competitor count) plus an Unassigned area. To arrange them:

  • Auto Distribute balances the classes across the TVs by competitor count, keeping age groups together — a good starting point.
  • Drag class chips between TVs (or into Unassigned) to fine-tune.
  • Add TV adds another screen; Unassign All clears everything to start over.

Click Create TV Screens to finish. Each TV becomes a screen you can open and monitor like any other.

Opening each screen on its TV ​

Each screen is a web page at a URL of the form:

http://<server-address>/leaderboard/<screen-id>?eventId=<event-id>

So tv1 for an event is http://<server-address>/leaderboard/tv1?eventId=<event-id>. The simplest way to get there:

  • On the server machine, click the screen's ID link in the Leaderboard TV Screens section — it opens the screen in a new browser tab.
  • On another device (a smart TV, a media stick, a laptop driving an HDMI output), open that device's browser and go to the URL above, substituting your server's address. Copy the link from the open tab's address bar if it's easier than typing.

Put the browser full-screen (press F11 on most desktop browsers) for a clean display, and turn off Show Header in the screen's settings if you want to reclaim the top strip. There's no separate software or kiosk component to install — a browser pointed at the URL is all each TV needs.

Driving several TVs from one computer ​

You don't need a computer per TV. Open each screen in its own browser window, then drag each window onto a different monitor or HDMI output and full-screen it there. One PC with several outputs can drive several TVs this way, each showing a different screen.

Changing all the TVs at once ​

Two controls in the Leaderboard TV Screens section act on the whole group:

  • Bulk Edit Settings opens a settings dialog that applies to every TV screen. Only the settings you actually change are pushed out — anything you leave alone is untouched, and a setting that currently differs between TVs shows as [Mixed] until you set it. Use this to, say, bump the font size on every TV at once.
  • The refresh button on a TV card (Force reload TV screen) reloads that display remotely — handy if a TV's browser has got stuck without you walking over to it.

To re-balance which classes show on which TV later, reopen the dialog with Assign classes.