Short version
Everyone runs their own breaks. A break you start in your dock also shows in your own control room. Other people's breaks show only later, under Earlier today. Open a control room or dock well before air time.
Each person runs their own breaks
- Every signed-in person can run breaks, in their own control room or dock.
- Two people can run breaks at the same time, for example two shows on two computers.
- You can't start a second break while your own is running. The app says "A break is already in progress".
Each computer drives the OBS it's connected to, at localhost. Two operators on two computers each control their own OBS.
The dock and the control room together
On one computer, you can run breaks from the dock and watch them in the control room:
- A break you start in your dock also shows in your own control room, with the running order, Filled by and Started by.
- The page that started a break is the one that runs it in OBS. Your other pages only show it, so the two never fight over OBS.
- It doesn't show live for other people. They see it afterwards, under Earlier today in their activity list.
If the page running a break closes
If the page that started a break is closed or reloaded mid-break, your control room and dock say "No page is running this break." after about 20 seconds. Press Take over this break to carry it on from the spot on air, or Return to live to end it. If nobody does, the break is logged as Failed a couple of minutes after it should have ended.
Keep the server ready before air time
- Don't restart OBS or deploy changes to the server during a show. The server keeps the running break in memory. A restart makes it forget the break: OBS carries on, but the control room loses it.
- Wake it up early. The server can go to sleep when nobody has used it for a while, and the first visit wakes it, which takes a moment. Open a control room or dock before air time and leave it open.