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The big screen for the room: questions, scores, the join code, and your branding, live and hands-free.
The TV screen is the page your projector or TV shows all night. Every Open TV button opens it, and so does typing a game code at /tv. It shows whatever you are running: a trivia game, karaoke, a sports pick'em, a tournament bracket, a slideshow, an audience poll, or a tip screen, plus a scrolling ticker. Between activities it rests on your default slideshow if you set one, or on a branded welcome screen with a live clock.
You open the display once and leave it. It connects to your host account over a live channel and follows your lead: when you launch or switch an activity from your host controls, the screen changes on its own. No one has to touch the projector during the night.
The display is a public web page tied to your host account, so a projector or smart TV can load it with no login. Open TV Controls from the TV On / TV Off button at the top of a show page or the live console. Press the launch button to open the display, or Copy URL to open it on another device. Leave it on the screen all night.
It holds its connection and reconnects on its own if the network drops, then picks up whatever is showing now. A game that ended while it was away shows its final results. Where the browser allows it, the display also keeps the screen from going to sleep.
A bar with three screens does not need three logins. On each extra TV, smart TV browser, or streaming stick, open /tv on the Brainflood site and type the 5-character code from your screen. That TV follows the same show. It works for a trivia game, a karaoke session, and a sports pick'em.
The Display panel in the live console shows the full address and your code under More TVs?, so you can read it off while you set up.
Before the first question, the screen shows the join code and QR code, a roster of who has joined, and a name pop for each new player. During a question it shows the question, the countdown, a line telling players to answer on their phones, and a live count of how many have answered. Then come the answer reveal, the leaderboard, and the final results.
At game over the screen shows the standings, and your tip QR codes if you have tip methods set up. Brainy, the Brainflood mascot, waves in the lobby and cheers at the end. You can turn him off under Host Settings, Game Defaults.
Karaoke, sports pick'em, tournament brackets, slideshows, and polls each have their own layout, built to be read from across the bar.
Music and audio clips play on the TV from the Start you set and stop after the Length you set, both in the live console next to Play on TV. Only the sound plays, so nobody reads a song title off the screen.
Players join a game by scanning the QR code on the screen or typing the short join code. Keep the projector where the room can read it.
Read-aloud plays through the TV once the display has proved it can play sound, so the venue's speakers carry it.
During a game, the live console's Display panel sends things to the screen. Join Code puts up the QR code and code for latecomers. Team check-in puts up a QR that each table scans to type its team name, for paper nights. Scores shows the standings, and Reveal shows them from last place up to the leader, one row at a time, for the end of the night. Message and Timer put up an announcement or a countdown.
Hide points on the TV (ranks only) shows the order with no scores. It saves arguments about marking, and the phones are not changed.
TV Controls holds the screen-wide tools. Slideshow pushes a slideshow to the screen and makes it your default resting screen. Break Mode switches the screen to your break slideshow, with an optional YouTube playlist for background music, and shows an On Break badge. End the break and the previous activity comes right back. The Break button in the top bar does the same in one click. A break only changes the screen: a game keeps running on the phones, so call it between questions.
Ticker Messages adds a scrolling band at the top or bottom of the screen, so promos and specials keep moving while the main content plays. Tip Screen shows your tip QR codes full screen, and Hide & Restore brings back what was showing.
From the karaoke KJ console or the pick'em host console, you can run a quick one-round trivia game over the set. The TV switches to the trivia game, the live console opens in a new tab, and Return now ends the quick game and brings back the karaoke or pick'em screen.
The display wears your branding. Set your business name, logo, tagline, colors, and background image, and they show on the welcome screen. Pick a default skin and the display picks up that look, and a game's own palette and skin carry onto the screen while it runs.
The display page is public on purpose: a projector or TV loads it with no account so you never fight a login on the big screen. It only shows content you push to it.
Control flows from your host screen, not from the projector. You launch, switch, break, and stop from your controls, and the wall follows.
If the network drops, the display reconnects and picks the night back up where it left off, so a short outage does not need a trip to the projector.
