Screens and displays
A screen in NextSet is a browser tab pointed at a URL and left alone. No install, no app, no operator.
What each screen is
| Screen | Goes on | Shows |
|---|---|---|
| Big screen | The TV or projector everyone can see | What is on now, what is next, the clock, and any message you broadcast. |
| Up-next screen | A display where people wait to go on — a green room, a warm-up area | Who is on, who is next, and how long is left. Not for the audience. |
| Stream overlay | A layer inside your streaming software | The clock and the current item, on a transparent background, over your video. |
Setting up the room screen
- Point the machine at the screen URL
From your event, open the big screen view. Any machine driving the display works — a laptop, a mini PC, a TV stick with a browser.
- Go full screen
F11 on Windows and Linux, Control-Command-F on a Mac. Browser chrome on a projector is the single most common thing that makes a good setup look amateur.
- Turn off screen sleep
On the machine, not in NextSet. A display that sleeps twenty minutes into a quiet stretch is the most common day-of failure there is.
- Leave it alone
It follows the clock from here. If it ever looks wrong, reload it — it will resynchronise to the live state, not to whatever it last remembered.
Making it look like yours
A venue or gym can put its own logo on its screens. When you do, that is the mark the room sees — NextSet's own mark steps out of the way rather than sitting next to yours, because two logos on one wall reads as sponsorship.
Colours follow your venue's brand settings, so the screen matches your gym or your reception rather than the product.
Putting the clock in a stream
If you stream — a competition, a service, a showcase — the overlay is a browser source in your streaming software. Add it as a browser source, point it at the overlay URL for your event, and size it to your canvas. It has a transparent background, so it composites over your video with nothing behind it.
It is read-only, like every other screen. Nobody watching the stream can affect the event.
When something looks wrong
| Symptom | Almost always |
|---|---|
| Screen is frozen on an old item | The display machine went to sleep. Wake it and reload. |
| Screen and director disagree | The screen lost its connection. Reload it — it resyncs to the live clock, not to a cached one. |
| Screen is blank | The browser is not full screen and the page is scrolled, or the machine is asleep. |
| Wrong event | The tab is on last week's event. Screens are per-event; open the one for today. |