Magewell Director

Works, untested. The Director’s Webpage GFX shows a web page over the video with a transparent background, so it can show ScoreSight’s browser overlays (built-in or your own). Its built-in scoreboards can also take the scores over HTTP, with limits.

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  1. Browser overlay in a Webpage GFX
  2. Built-in scoreboard scores (untested idea)
  3. Vendor documentation

Browser overlay in a Webpage GFX

  1. Put the Director and the ScoreSight computer on the same network, and allow TCP port 18099 through the ScoreSight computer’s firewall.
  2. In ScoreSight, select HTTP server in the Outputs list, set up an overlay under Browser overlays with the computer’s network address, and click Copy.
  3. On the Director, tap GFX > Create New > Webpage, enter the overlay address (for example http://192.168.1.20:18099/overlay/scorebug) and tap Go.
  4. In the GFX editor, set CSS to Transparent CSS, size and position it, save, and apply it in the show.

A Director holds up to 7 webpage GFX. The page runs in the device’s own browser: ScoreSight pushes each change over one connection, which costs the device far less than polling, so keep the overlay’s default transport. Untested: how fast the device’s browser updates.

Built-in scoreboard scores (untested idea)

The Director’s built-in scoreboards have an HTTP API with one call per field. With {field} and {value} in the URL, the Outbound HTTP API can drive the scores: name two custom boxes setScoreOfHome and setScoreOfGuest, and set the URL to http://<director-ip>:8080/V1.0/gfx/scoreboard/{field}?score={value} with Only changes ticked.

Every other field is sent the same way too (and fails), so this suits a setup with just the two scores. The clock and the period take other parameters, which this doesn’t cover.

Vendor documentation