The overlay is the on screen transport, for whoever is not at a keyboard, which on a tablet prompter is everyone. It was written from scratch and three things it needed already existed. Its buttons are now IconButton in the subtle-white variant, the same as the floating navigation uses over a dark viewer, which removes a block of bespoke button styling that had reinvented sizing, centring, radius and hover. The help overlay's close button likewise uses the shared Button. Visibility now comes from useFadeOutOnInactivity, the hook the floating navigation uses, so the overlay fades once the operator stops moving. It used to fade on whether the script was rolling, which meant a paused prompter kept a control bar in the talent's eyeline indefinitely. Following the shared pattern turned up a bug in the old one. The floating navigation stops taking clicks once faded, and this did not, so there was an invisible transport across the foot of the script where a stray tap would pause the read. It now matches. The operator view's FollowButton is deliberately not reused. It is a labelled pill fixed to the bottom centre, which is exactly where this group sits, so the two would land on top of each other. Same icon and same job, folded into the transport instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cb8RVPNQ2ETPJxdy4b8CHf
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Using Ontime?
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Ontime
Ontime is a browser-based application that manages event rundowns, scheduling, and cueing.
With Ontime, you can plan, track your schedule, manage automation and cross-department show information all in one place.
Ontime is made by entertainment and broadcast engineers and used by
- Conference organisers
- Touring shows and receiving venues
- Broadcasters and streamers
- Theatres and opera houses
- Houses of worship
Main features
- Multiplatform: Available as a Cloud service and for Windows, macOS, Linux, or self-hosted via Docker.
- In any device: Ontime is available to any device with a browser, eg: tablets, mobile phones, laptops, signage, media servers...
- Team Collaboration: Dedicated views for directors, operators, backstage, and signage.
- Real-Time Updates: Manage and communicate runtime delays effortlessly.
- Automatable: Ontime can be fully or partially controlled by an operator, or run standalone with the system clock
- Flexible Integrations: Use one of the APIs provided (OSC, HTTP, Websocket) or the available Companion module to integrate into your workflow (vMix, disguise, Qlab, OBS)
... and a lot more ...
For live environments
Ontime is designed for use in live environments.
This guides the application into being flexible and efficiently integrating into different workflows.
For teams
All information added in Ontime is shared with the production team and other software / hardware in your workflow.
Ontime also improves team collaboration with dedicated views for cuesheets and operators, and for public and production
signage.
Simple infrastructure
All the data is distributed over the network, making its distribution and infrastructure flexible and cheap.
With the availability of the docker image, you can also leverage IT infrastructure to make Ontime available online for
your team and clients.
Ontime is made by video engineers and entertainment technicians.
Using Ontime
Getting started
The easiest way to start with Ontime is by leveraging our Cloud service.
This will give you immediate access to running instances of Ontime which are available to share with anyone with an internet connection.
Alternatively, you can run Ontime locally for free by downloading the latest release for your platform or using the docker image, available at Docker Hub
Once installed and running, any device that shares the same network as Ontime will have access to Ontime.
More information is available in our docs
Continued development
Ontime is under active development. We continue adding and improving features in collaboration with users.
Have an idea? Reach out via email or open an issue
Issues
We use Github's issue tracking for bug reporting and feature requests.
Found a bug? Open an issue.
Contributing
Looking to contribute? All types of help are appreciated, from coding to testing and feature specification.
If you are a developer and would like to contribute with code, please open an issue to discuss before opening a Pull Request.
Information about the project setup can be found in the development documentation
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License
This project is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL v3
Sponsor
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