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Introduction

Breakcastr docs

Breakcastr is a web app that puts a broadcast-grade overlay on your break: a live board of your spots, real game scores, your branding, animations and sounds, all driven from your browser or phone.

Breakcastr works alongside OBS, the free app most breakers already broadcast with. You install OBS, point it at your selling platform, and paste one Breakcastr link into it.

New here? Start with these

  • What is Breakcastr? explains the whole thing from zero, including what OBS is and what you need.
  • Quickstart is the whole path in one pass, from signup to your first live break.
  • Set up OBS comes before any of the wiring if you have never used OBS at all.

How Breakcastr fits together

Breakcastr is the visual layer on top of your break. It does not run the sale or assign teams. It makes the stream look like a broadcast and gives you one place to run it from.

A few terms show up throughout the docs, so here is the map:

  • Channel. Your account and your stable on-stream identity: display name, logo, and socials. You set it up once, and every break you run belongs to it.
  • Overlay. The vertical (9:16) canvas your viewers see over your camera. You design it by placing widgets on a grid, and OBS renders the same design on stream as a transparent browser source. One word, one thing: what you build in the editor is exactly what goes on air.
  • Widget. A single element you place on the overlay: the fill board, a live scoreboard, your name plate, socials, an image, or text. See the widget catalog.
  • Controls. The on-air panel you fire the show from: the effects and sounds you trigger live and how your buttons are laid out. It lives in your studio, which you can open on any device you are signed into, so you can run the break from an iPad or laptop instead of inside OBS.
  • Break template. A saved bundle of an overlay plus its controls, so you build your look once and reuse it every stream. You need at least one template to go live.
  • Break. One live selling event. It holds your live spot inventory (which teams are sold) and everything the audience sees while you are on air.

Everything you change in your studio updates the overlay in real time, and it heals itself if OBS ever reloads. One person can run a polished broadcast solo.

Ready to do it? Quickstart walks the whole path in one page.

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