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The viewer display

The viewer at /r/<slug> is the screen your presenters and audience actually watch. It has no controls — just a big, legible clock that reacts to the operator, changes color as time runs low, and can chime when a segment wraps.

Go fullscreen

Open the viewer on the screen that faces the stage, then press F to fill the display. The timer scales to the space, so it stays readable from the back of a large room. There is no limit on how many viewers a room can have — put one on the stage screen, one on a presenter's confidence monitor, and one on a laptop at front-of-house all at once.

Wrap-up color stages

The clock changes color to warn a speaker without a word from you. It moves through three stages:

  • Normal for most of the segment.
  • Yellow once the timer crosses its wrap-up threshold — the “start landing the plane” signal.
  • Red as time runs out and after it hits zero, so an over-running speaker is impossible to miss.

The yellow point is set per timer by its wrap-up time. Configure it on the controller and see Timers and rundowns for how the threshold is chosen.

Progress bar

Beneath the clock, a progress bar gives an at-a-glance sense of how much of the segment is left — helpful for presenters who process a shrinking bar faster than a number. It tracks the same wrap-up colors, shifting toward red as the segment ends.

Sound alerts

The viewer can play a short chime at key moments, generated in the browser so there's nothing to install:

  • A wrap-up chime when the timer enters its warning window.
  • A finished chime — a descending three-tone cue — when the segment hits zero.

Sound is off by default

Alerts stay silent until enabled in the room settings, so a viewer never surprises a quiet room. Turn them on for the screen that needs audio, and browsers may ask you to interact with the page once before they allow sound.

Blackout

Press B to black out the screen you're on — the clock keeps running underneath, so nothing is lost. The operator can also blackout every viewer at once from the controller; either way, toggling it off brings the timer back exactly where it is. See the controller for the room-wide control.

Theme and connection status

Dark or light

The viewer supports both a dark display for a darkened auditorium and a light one for a bright room or a printed confidence monitor. Pick whichever reads best on the screen in front of your audience.

Connection status

A small indicator shows whether the viewer is connected to the room in real time. If the network drops, it lets you know rather than silently freezing the clock — so a front-of-house operator can spot a problem before it matters. When the connection returns, the viewer re-syncs to the controller automatically.

Keep reading

The viewer display — TimedFlow Docs