TV Console¶

About¶

OpenTrack’s TV Console allows you to seamlessly add overlays to your broadcast of a competition, and provide your audience with key information live throughout the competition such as timetables, start lists, live results and team scoring.

How it works¶

The TV console draws live data from OpenTrack’s competition management system, allowing you to display up-to-date startlists and live results on livestream broadcasts or large stadium screens.

The console can easily be shared to streaming software such as OBS or vMix using remote screen-sharing.

OBS instruction manuals
vMix instruction manuals

Features¶

The TV console can be controlled using the menu & info bar at the top of the screen.

The menu can be used to set up before your broadcast starts, with most features also being bound to keyboard inputs to allow you to control the console during the broadcast.

The info bar will display live updates on results as they come in, as well as current event selection.

The menu and info bar can be hidden with the keyboard shortcut - Z (toggle show/hide)

Selecting a meeting¶

You can launch the tv console directly from the competition management screens using the “launch tv console” button. This will give you a bespoke URL with your competition data preloaded.

Alternatively you can use the “get meeting list” menu item and search for your competition directly from the tv console. (The meeting list year can be changed in the settings menu).

Event Selection¶

Once you have loaded the competition, a list of the events will be displayed in the event selection menu. You can select events from this menu and the relevant event data will be loaded in the background ready for you to display (e.g. start list or result).

Your current event selection will be updated in the info bar.

During the broadcast, you can switch between events using:
. (full stop) - previous event
/ (forward slash) - next event

On screen displays¶

There are several option for on screen displays which can be brought up using the displays menu, or using the following keyboard shortcuts:
T - Timetable = show/hide timetable of events
B - Scores = show/hide team scores screen
L - Logo = show/hide customisable logo
S - Start List = show/hide start list for the currently selected event
R - Results = show/hide results for the currently selected event
G - Gold/Silver/Bronze Medals = show/hide podium with top 3 athletes for currently selected event

If a timetable, start list, or results display has more items than fit on one page, you can scroll through the pages using the up and down arrow keys.

The start list and results displays will show the data from the currently selected event. You can move to the next event while this display is still showing and the next event’s data will load automatically.

The scores screen allows you to display the results of the scoring for your event, scoring type is specified in your competition's MANAGE > SCORING page where you can set the Scoring System.

The look and feel of these displays (including the logo) can be customised within the tv console section of the competition management system.

Clock¶

The clock can be displayed on screen, started, stopped, or reset using the timer menu, or by using the keyboard shortcuts:
C - show/hide clock
N - start clock
M - stop clock
, (comma) - reset clock

The name of the currently selected event will be displayed on the clock, so make sure you have selected the relevant event before bringing the clock on display.

Settings¶

API mode¶

The API mode can be set to LIVE or TEST data. This signifies whether the tv console is loading data from OpenTrack’s live server or its test server.
It will default to LIVE, and this should be used during a live competition, but you can set it to TEST to practice with a test version of your competition in advance.

You can double check this setting in the dev tools console which will display:
KEY= 2b94ba526eda8332e32a (for LIVE)
KEY= 62fbd6418ed94ae09473 (for TEST)

These settings relate to the “get meeting list” search for loading competition data:
Country = Identify the relevant country of the competition.
Year = Identify the relevant year the competition is run in.
Language = For competitions in places like Cyprus where some names have special characters.

Transitions and animations¶

Transitions = smooth transitions between different frames shown
Screen cursor = Hide cursor whilst on the screen so people cannot see it in the broadcast

Live data pop-ups¶

Show latest jump/throw = automatically display the latest field event results as they are updated in the bottom left corner of the screen
Autodisplay track results = automatically display the latest track event results once they have been updated on the OpenTrack competition page (useful for stadium screens)

You can double check these settings in the dev tools console which will display:

pusher tracking fieldevents =  true/false

pusher tracking trackevents =  true/false

Background settings¶

Show blank background = Display a monochromatic colour as the background
Background colour = select the background colour using RGB, HSL or HEX values or using the colour picker. This colour can then be removed from the broadcast using your choice of streaming software.

Keyboard Shortcuts¶

All the keyboard shortcuts in one handy cheat-sheet:
Z - Menu & info bar = show/hide the menu & info bar
T - Timetable = show/hide timetable of events
B - Scores = show/hide team scores screen
L - Logo = show/hide customisable logo
S - Start List = show/hide start list for the event currently selected event
R - Results = show/hide results for the currently selected event
G - Gold/Silver/Bronze Medals = show/hide podium with top 3 athletes for currently selected event
Up arrow = previous page (for timetable, start lists, or results)
Down arrow = next page (for timetable, start lists, or results)
C - show/hide clock
N - start clock
M - stop clock
, (comma) - reset clock
. (full stop) - previous event
/ (forward slash) - next event