Schedule and go live

Most screens run on a routine — the lunch menu every weekday from 11:30 — and a few days a year run on a script. Wunderframe handles both: the call sheet for the routine, shows for the script, and the live board for everything that happens on the day.

Open Venue → Call Sheet. Each booking says which story plays on which stage, on which days and in which time window.

• Times are local to the room, before and after a daylight-saving change.
• Repeats can be weekly on chosen days, or follow a rule with a start and end date, a day of the month, and dates to add or skip.
• One-day changes play another story on a single date, or skip the booking that day.
• Switching a booking off silences it without deleting it.

Dayparts are named times of day. On the day plan, a booking in a daypart follows it: move Noon to start at 11:00 and every Noon booking moves with it. Scenes can use dayparts too — the breakfast offer plays in the lobby loop only in the morning.

A cue can put a presenter session on a stage instead of a story. Firing it takes the session live and plays its speaker intro — keynotes inside an opening block work this way: Welcome at 11:00, then GO for each keynote.

A cue with a time fires by itself once the show is started. The server keeps the time, so it does not depend on one laptop. A cue that is more than two minutes late when the show starts does not fire on its own: press GO for it.

While a show is live, only its controller can press GO, go back, take or release a stage. Hand over control asks another operator to take the desk, and a workspace owner can take over with a reason that is logged.

• Put on… puts a story or a blank screen on one stage now.
• Take a preset puts a saved setup live on every stage it names.
• Release returns a stage to its call sheet booking; Release all does it for every stage.
• Blackout takes every stage to a blank screen.
• Undo restores exactly what was live before the last change.

A preset is a saved venue state: which story, presenter session or black each stage changes to, put live in one move. A stage left on Not part of this preset keeps what it plays. Make them under Venue → Presets for the states you repeat — Break, Doors open, House loop. Choosing a stage group fills in its stages. A show’s cue can set stages directly; save it as a preset only when it repeats. Pinned on Live keeps a preset one tap away on the board. (Presets were called programs until September 2026.)

• Channel — a stage whose design shows the stage’s channel has a Channel line on its tile. Pick a logo and only the video changes. See TV channels.
• Casts — when a stage accepts casting, requests and live casts appear here with Accept, Turn away, Cut and Mute. See Cast zones.

Everything on the board is live: it never waits for a publish. What a story or a preset contains does.

Every take, GO, Back and handover is written to the board’s What happened log with who did it and when. For the day itself — sessions, one room from a phone, Blackout — see the Operator guide.

The board reshapes itself to the device it is on.

• Laptop — the stage tiles on the left, the desk on the right.
• Tablet — the tiles scroll above a bar pinned to the bottom with the next cue, Back, a big GO and Blackout. Sessions, presets and the history open as sheets; tap a tile to open that stage.
• Phone — GO mode: the show’s now, next and GO (or, with no show running, a Shows button), the Rooms, a card per screen, Presenter sessions, Presets and What happened, and Blackout every screen. A room opens its own page — see Operate one room from a phone. Tap a screen for its sheet: its Channel, Put presenter on when a session is on that stage today, Back to schedule, Black and Put a story on….

The desk answers these keys whenever you are not typing in a field and no dialog is open:

• Space or Enter — GO: fire the cue shown as next.
• Backspace — Back: undo the last cue.
• B, then B again within 3 seconds — Blackout.
• R, then R again within 3 seconds — Release all.
• Esc — disarm.

One GO is one cue: holding Space, or two presses within a second, count once. If another desk or the show clock moved the show on meanwhile, GO is refused with The show already moved on instead of firing the cue after.

The line under the board’s title says how fresh it is. Live means changes arrive instantly. Polling means the desk asks every 8 seconds; it turns amber when it is 8 seconds behind and red after 30 — Desk may be behind, check the room. If the server cannot be reached at all, the board keeps its last picture and the line turns red at once — Stale since … — with Retry. The same line says whether presenter streaming works. Check the room before you GO.

Run → Backstage shows today’s presenter sessions in every room at once: a column per stage, a card per session. It is the page for whoever looks after the speakers — at a desk, on a tablet, or standing in a room with a phone.

• Each card shows every presenter’s picture and microphone level once they have joined from their link. READY means they pressed I’m ready; ON SCREEN means the room shows them now.
• The countdown runs to the start in the room’s own time. It turns red when the start has passed and nobody is ready — walk over.
• Take puts the session on its stage now; Not ready takes a presenter off the ready list; Finish ends the session and moves the stage on. When a show holds the stage, the card says who to ask instead of failing.

A tablet shows two rooms side by side; a phone one room at a time — tap a room’s name or swipe. Pictures off stops the video connections when the network is tight.