What this step does

The Go Live screen is reached after clicking Start — Match or Start — Intermission in Step 4. It gives you confirmation that the match is live and provides the controls you need while the match is in progress.

For a full breakdown of monitoring and managing active matches from the dashboard, see Managing Live Matches.

What happens when you click Start

  1. The PWA sends a golive MQTT message to the rig’s topic.
  2. The browser source overlay on the OBS machine receives the message.
  3. OBS WebSocket is triggered to switch to the requested scene.
  4. If the rig is configured for streaming, OBS starts the stream.
  5. If YouTube auth is active, a broadcast is created (or reused) and the stream key is set.
  6. If live scoring is enabled, the server begins polling PoolStat.net.au.

All of this happens in a few seconds. The status message in Step 4 confirms success.

Scene mode indicator

The Live Dashboard shows a colour-coded badge on each active match card:

Badge Meaning
🔘 Staged Config sent; stream not started
🟢 Match Match scene is active and stream is live
🔵 Intermission Intermission scene active

Switching scenes mid-match

You can switch scenes at any time without stopping the stream:

  • Start — Match — Switch to the match scene
  • Start — Intermission — Switch to the intermission scene

Each switch sends a new MQTT message to the rig. The stream key and broadcast ID are preserved from the original go-live payload.

Stopping the match

Click ■ Stop on a match card to end the match:

  1. A confirmation modal shows the match details — confirm to proceed.
  2. A completed MQTT message is sent to OBS, which stops the stream.
  3. If a YouTube broadcast was active, it is ended automatically.
  4. If live scoring was running, the PoolStat poll is stopped.

Important: Stopping the match ends the YouTube broadcast. Once a broadcast has ended it cannot be restarted from the PWA. If you need to go live again, start a new match.

Updating the YouTube title

If the match has a YouTube broadcast, a text input appears on the match card pre-filled with the default title ([Event] - [Home] vs [Away]). Edit the text and click Update Title to push the change to YouTube without interrupting the stream.

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