Registering courts and pairing recording cameras
What the organisers must do BEFORE match day so referees can pick a court and cameras record automatically when a game starts.
Updated 9/27/2026
Without registered courts, referees have nothing to pick
The pick-court step in the console only lists courts the organisers registered for the tournament, and deliberately does NOT allow free text. With no courts registered, referees have to skip that step — the match still scores normally but there is no video. Register your courts before match day.
Registering courts for the tournament
Go to Tournament management → Tournament settings → Manage courts
It sits in the OPERATIONS group. The sub-line tells you how many courts the tournament currently has.
Tap the plus to add a court
Type a short name: 1, A, or Centre. The app adds the word "Court" when displaying it.
Mark the centre court if you have one
The tournament's main court — for important matches and livestreams.
Edit or delete by swiping left
Renaming a court also updates matches already carrying the old name. Deleting a court leaves already-scheduled matches with their name intact.
Pairing a camera to a court
Go to Tournament settings → Recording devices. At the top is a block telling you whether the tournament has automatic recording enabled, with the number of courts that have a camera paired.
There are two tabs:
- PickLive devices — the list of cameras the system can see. For each camera, tap Assign court and pick the court it is filming. Each court accepts one camera; assigning over an existing one automatically detaches the old camera.
- Self-declared — for when a device doesn't appear on the tab above. You paste the court code the camera system is using. The system only stores the code so it can address the right court; it does not verify it for you — enter it wrong and that court silently fails to record.
Once that's all done there is nothing more to do: when a referee starts a game, the camera rolls and closes each game's video by itself.
Reading the camera status colours
Green — ready to record
It has signal and a court assigned. This is the state you want before play starts.
Amber — no court assigned
The camera has signal but isn't attached to any court of this tournament. Tap Assign court to fix it.
Red — no signal
The device is still connected but the camera has no picture. That's for the installer to fix.
Grey — disconnected
The device has dropped off the camera system. Check power and network at the court.
The mismatch warning block
When the tournament's court list and the camera system disagree, the devices screen shows a block listing each mismatched court with the reason — no court code on the other side, a different stored name, or no camera assigned yet. Tap sync to push the changes over so they match.
Assigning a court to an individual match
Besides the pick-court step in the console, anyone with result-entry permission can also assign a court from the match detail screen using the Court button.
The sheet opens as a table: the Whole match row applies to every game, then one row per rubber if the format has several. Set Whole match first and only then adjust individual rubbers — because the whole-match row propagates down and overwrites the child rows.
If the tournament has no courts registered, the sheet says so and invites you to the settings section.
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