Viewer
The big countdown for a speaker on stage or for projection.
The Viewer is the big countdown — the screen a speaker looks at, or the one you project for the audience. It fills the whole browser window, scales with the display, and needs no login.
Open it at the /v/… URL from the Outputs panel — see
Share links.
What it shows
- A phase chip in the corner with a pulsing dot:
STANDBY,ON AIR,1 MINUTE,OVERTIME, orPAUSED. The whole background colour changes with the phase, so the state is readable from the back of a room without reading any text. - A large progress ring around the countdown.
- REMAINING beneath the numerals, or OVER once the session runs past its time.
- The session title and speaker along the bottom.
- A full-width message overlay when the Controller or Moderator shows a message, in that message's colour, pulsing if Flash is on.
What it deliberately does not show
No wall clock, no event or room name, no agenda, no session number, no percentage. It is one number, big. If your speaker needs the running order, give them the Agenda on a second device.
Going fullscreen
There is no fullscreen button. Use the browser's own control — F11 on Windows and
Linux, Ctrl/Cmd+Cmd-F on macOS Chrome, or the View menu. On a dedicated show
machine, also worth doing:
- Hide the bookmarks bar and any browser chrome you can.
- Disable screen sleep and screensavers on the display machine.
- Disable any "restore tabs" or auto-update prompts that could appear over the output.
States you will see
| On screen | What it means |
|---|---|
--:-- with STANDBY | No session selected, or nothing running yet |
| An almost-black screen with a faint dot | Blackout is on from the Controller |
| "Link not found or expired." | The link was removed, or the URL is wrong |
| "This display could not be loaded." | The link is valid but the data did not load — retry |
| "Loading…" | Still resolving the link |
Blackout hides messages too. With Blackout on, the audience sees a black screen — not the timer, and not a live message. The tiny dot in the corner is there so you can tell a blacked-out output apart from a dead browser tab.
Running it reliably
The Viewer talks to the database directly, so it keeps updating even if the app server is asleep. But:
- Test on the actual display machine before doors. Check legibility from the furthest seat and that the phase colours read clearly on that projector.
- If the connection drops, the Viewer re-subscribes on its own and re-fetches the current message, so it catches up rather than staying stale. You do not need to reload it manually.
- On a hosted free-tier deployment, the very first load of the day may take up to a minute while the server wakes. Open it well before you need it.
Related
- Share links — creating and testing the link
- Controller — sending the messages that appear here
- Agenda — the running-order screen, for when one number is not enough