Rundown
Drag to reorder, float items, mark drop candidates. Script with word count and read time, camera direction, CG lines and a fixed start time. Two people can edit the same item without overwriting each other.
Standby Limited beta coming soon
Hit take.
Hit take.
Every screen
follows.
TVOS runs the show from one Mac: rundown, on-air timing, a synchronised prompter, the studio clock and text talkback. iPhones, iPads, other Macs and any browser on the network connect on their own and show the same second.
Not yet
TVOS can't be downloaded yet. It's almost ready to go out to a limited beta.
Mac host · iOS · iPadOS · web
AES-GCM encrypted, LAN-first
Stream Deck & Companion
Klokke--:--:--
Over/under±0:00
Hard out--:--:--
Margin+0:00
On air
A2
Studio
Åpning og headlines
0:14
Planned0:45
go on
DSThe Tally design system
Built for a dark room and half a second.
The people using this make decisions while the clock runs. So the interface is graphite grey, colour is saved for status, and the countdown is the biggest thing on every screen.
Colour means something
Red: on air, or too late. Nothing else.
1:11PROPORTIONAL
1:11TABULAR
Time never jumps
Timecode is monospaced with tabular digits. Watch the dashed box: the top one twitches every second, the bottom one never moves.
0:09
Readable across the floor
Labels are small, uppercase and spaced like the engraving on a vision mixer. Hover here and the number does what it does on the studio clock.
One way to do things
The same components and the same behaviour on Mac, iPhone, iPad and the web. Learn it once in rehearsal.
01Every device · Enheter & fjernstyring
The Mac keeps time. Everyone else agrees.
The Mac's clock is the master. Clients sync to it with ping/pong round-trips and find it over Bonjour without setup. Press TAKE above and watch all four screens change together.
On air
Mac hostOn air
iPad on the glassAir
Floor managerAny browser
Clock offset to host ±0.0 ms · round-trip 3.1 ms · no PIN = view only
02Studio clock & prompter
Same line on every glass.
The prompter stores its position as an item plus a fraction of its script, not as pixels. A phone, an iPad behind the beam-splitter and a browser show the same line whatever their size or font.
60-second ring · amber in the last 10 sA2
150 wpm
Left 0:00
03Text talkback · Meldinger
Tell the anchor without a word.
Send a message to a role with a priority. Quick messages cover what you say twenty times a show. Read receipts tell you it landed. There is push-to-talk too, when typing is too slow.
To
Priority
Quick messages
Anker · iPadOn air
Gjest 2 er i studio
Regi → AnkerLest ✓✓
04Tally Wire · TLW/1
A rundown edit is 45 bytes.
The host-to-device link is a compact binary protocol. State goes out once, then as revisioned deltas, so one edit sends one item instead of the whole show. Browsers fall back to JSON over /ws on their own.
One update, measured on the demo show
~140×smaller than the old JSON update
JSON6.4 KB
TLW/1~45 B
Frame anatomy · varints, 4–6 bytes of header
Hover or tap a field.
Four priority lanes · a TAKE overtakes a queued upload
Control
Live
State
Bulk
05TVOS Deck · Stream Deck · Companion
Fifteen keys. One URL each.
Every button calls the same action on the Mac at /api/do/<action>. Open the Deck on any phone, add it to the home screen, and it runs full screen like an app. Keys light up with tally, countdowns and streaming state. Try it.
PGMKVELDSNYTT
Kari NordmannReporter, Bergen
CAM 1PVWCAM 2
Requests to the Mac
GET /api/deck/state 200
Several actions on one key run in order as a macro, for example mixer.preview VT › mixer.auto › gfx.fromItem. The layout is saved on the Mac, so every phone shows the same keys.
06For the whole production
From the pitch to the as-run log.
The live view is the loud part. Around it sits the planning and newsroom work that gets a show to air, on the same data.
Cut advice
Running long? TVOS suggests the fewest drop candidates that bring you out on time, one click each. Running short, it suggests floated items that fit the gap.
An honest log
Every take logs actual start and duration. Previous un-airs an item instead of logging a false duration. Export as CSV.
Vision mixer
Program and preview, multiview, cut, mix, dip, wipe, T-bar and fade to black, with 1080p30 program. Phones, cameras, capture cards and remote browsers as sources. Stream to several RTMP destinations at once.
A production in a minute
Templates for news, debate, sport, magazine and OB create chats, recurring episodes and crew shifts. A calendar across productions, rest-time warnings, freelancer rates and an ICS feed.
One PIN to control
4817
Control needs the 4-digit PIN shown on the Mac.
Without it a device is view-only, which suits a prompter or a clock. Data is AES-GCM encrypted at rest, and folder sync between Macs is end-to-end encrypted.
07Gallery & integrations
Plugs into the gallery.
Tally from the switcher, clips from vMix, graphics to CasparCG, the house clock over NTP and stories from the newsroom system over MOS. A backup Mac mirrors every operation and takes over if the main one goes down.
TSL UMD 3.1 / 5.0
Tally and under-monitor display
ATEM
Switcher tally
MOS device
ENPS and iNews
vMix
Clip countdown in the live view
CasparCG
Graphics, cg.next and cg.clear
NTP
House clock
LiveKit · WHIP
Remote sources from a browser link, OBS, vMix or ffmpeg
RTMP / RTMPS
YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, custom
Live protocol
WebSocket, REST and Bonjour _tvos._tcp
Bitfocus Companion
Generic HTTP, with lights from /api/deck/state
ATEM, TSL and MOS are built from the protocol specs and unit-tested with sample messages. They have not yet been run against hardware.
08Run it
On air in four commands.
No public download yet. These commands are for the team building TVOS. A limited beta is coming soon. On first launch choose Last inn demo-sending to load the demo show. Then open Enheter & fjernstyring and scan the QR code with a phone, or open the TVOS app on an iPhone or iPad. It finds the Mac on its own.
~/TVOS — zsh
swift run TVOSMac host, for developmentscripts/bundle.sh && open build/TVOS.appA proper .app with the web client bundledTVOS_DB=/tmp/rehearsal.sqlite swift run TVOSA separate database for rehearsalscd TVOSRemote && xcodegen && open TVOSRemote.xcodeprojThe iPhone, iPad and Mac companion