Contents
- Turn your PC into a scoreboard
- The right scoreboard software
- Introducing Keepthescore.com
- How to create a free online scoreboard
- How much does the scoreboard cost?
- Please give us feedback!
You don’t need to spend large sums of money on specialist equipment to get a professional looking scoreboard. In fact, you already have all the equipment you need: a PC and a TV or projector.
Like many other specialist hardware, expensive scoreboards are getting replaced with generic PC hardware and mobile phones. Remember physical alarm clocks? They are now just an icon on your phone. And the same is happening with scoreboards.
Turn your PC into a scoreboard
Not only can you turn your PC and your TV into a scoreboard, but in theory any screen that is capable of showing the output from a computer. All you need is a device that is capable of showing a webpage, which includes tablets, smartphones and smart-watches.
The size limit of your scoreboard is determined by the size of your TV. This is one of the cases where big = better!
The right scoreboard software
The essential component you need to create and display your scoreboard is the correct software.
Here too, a paradigm shift has been happening in the past few years (as with specialist hardware). Software used to be bought in nicely presented boxes or downloaded for a fee and then installed on your PC. But these days there is a much better solution: web-based online software. Not only do the results look as good (or better) as installed legacy software, there are other clear advantages.
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- Installable software is usually specific to one platform, such as Windows. Web-based software will run anywhere, including tablets and smartphones
- If an installed software gets an update or a bug-fix, you need to reinstall it and sometimes even pay for the update. With web-based software you always have the latest and greatest version the moment you load it into your browser.
- Web-based software will instantly work on your mobile phone without any kind of app-install being required.
- Installable software is often harder to set up and involves an error-prone and frustrating install-process.
- Installable software keeps its settings on your hard-disk, which means they are not available on other devices. If you get a new device it’s a pain to migrate. Web-based software stores its data and settings in the cloud, which is more convenient and safer.
- Web-based software works via links, which means you can share a link to your scoreboard or embed it on another page. The scoreboard in the screenshots above is simply a webpage, click here to see it! If the scores change, the website updates automatically.
Are there disadvantages to online scoreboards? Yes, of course there are. The main disadvantage is that you require an internet connection. Considering that most places on earth now have reliable and high-speed mobile access, this is a minor burden to bear.
Introducing Keepthescore.com
Keepthescore.com is one of the leading solutions for creating online scoreboards. But don’t take our word for it, our customers have this to say:
We pride ourselves on being very easy to get started with. You can literally be up and running in under 30 seconds, no registration nor payment required. If you don’t believe us, give it a try.
What’s very convenient is that you can control your scoreboard from anywhere, including a mobile phone. Read on for more details.
How to create a free online scoreboard
First you need to decide upon your setup:
Option 1: Use one PC for controlling and displaying the scoreboard. This means that you need 2 displays connected to the PC. One display will show the control panel for the scoreboard, the other will show the scoreboard itself. How this is set up will depend on your operating system and is beyond the scope of this article, but here is a good guide to get you started.
Option 2: The alternative is that you have one PC (or mobile device) for controlling the scoreboard and a second PC for displaying it. The only minor problem you have to solve here is how to get the link for the scoreboard to the second device (you could email it to yourself for instance). The 2 devices do not need to be connected via a cable or Bluetooth, but they do both need an internet connection.
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Once you have decided on your setup, here’s what you need to do:
- Go to this page to create a new scoreboard.
- Click on “Start here”.
- Congrats, you’ve now created a new scoreboard and are on the “control panel”. You have the option to carry out some customizations, such as choosing team names and choosing custom colors.
- Click on the orange “SHOW AND SHARE SCOREBOARD” button. This will open the scoreboard in a new browser tab.
- You can either show this browser tab on a display directly (option 1, see above) or send it to another device and display it there (option 2).
How much does the scoreboard cost?
The basic scoreboard is free, and you can start using it right away, including embedding it into an online video stream.
Please give us feedback!
Do you have a question, feedback, or a feature request?
Great! We answer every message within 1 working day (sometimes on the weekend too). You can reach us in the following ways:
- Write us an email
- Write on Facebook
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We love feature requests, but it depends on whether we think it’ll be useful to other users and how much effort it’ll be.
Source: https://keepthescore.co/blog/posts/pc-scoreboards/