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External message

You can show any text as a secondary field in the timer view.

Timer with external data

This external message can be set from the editor interface or API.
The latter is ideal for software-to-software communication.

Typical use cases include:

  • share non-intrusive information with the speaker eg: a talking point reminder
  • show information from another software, such as the title of a playing media asset or its elapsed time

Setting external message from API

The External message is great to allow other applications to share data with Ontime. See the documentation on setting the external message using the OSC, HTTP or WebSocket APIs.