Guide: Run Your Whole Break from the Stage

— Breaker Labs

The new Command Center is built around one idea: the widget you're working with gets the stage, and everything else — including what your viewers see in OBS — is one click away. Here's the full workflow, from empty view to live break.

1. Build your view in the strip

Open Command Center from the sidebar. Your views are tabs across the top; pick one or hit + New View.

The strip along the bottom is your view's contents. Click the dashed + Add widget tile and pick from the popover — each widget appears as a tile showing its sport and live count. Hover a tile and click the ✕ to take it out of the view (the widget itself isn't deleted, and its OBS source isn't touched).

Adding a widget from the strip's popover

Click any tile to put that widget on stage — the big panel with the full controls and live preview. Only one widget is ever on stage; that's what keeps the page fast.

2. Connect OBS and put the break in it

Click Connect OBS in the header. If you haven't set up the OBS side before, the two-minute Direct Sync guide covers it — it's one password copy inside OBS.

Once connected you have two ways in:

  • Set Up My Break (header) — builds an OBS scene named after your view with every widget in it, and switches OBS to it. Arrange the layout once in OBS; re-syncs keep your positions.
  • Add to OBS (on the staged widget) — adds just that widget to the scene you pick.

3. Drive what's on stream

This is the new part. With OBS connected, the Command Center shows you — and lets you change — exactly what's visible on stream, from three places:

The mixer at work: the staged MLB tracker's eye is lit (on stream), the NHL tracker's is slashed (hidden), Send to stream on the stage

The eyes on the strip

Every tile grows a small eye showing that overlay's real visibility in OBS (we read it from OBS when you connect, so it's truth, not a guess). Click to show or hide that overlay — without changing what's on your stage. Lit eye = on stream, slashed eye = hidden.

Send to stream

On the staged widget, next to Add to OBS. One click: this widget's overlay is shown, and every other widget in the view is hidden. It's the "everybody look at the wheel" button.

Follow Stage

The header toggle for full auto mode. While it's on, promoting any widget to the stage solos it in OBS automatically — your stage and your stream are the same thing. You'll get an "On stream" toast each time it fires.

One click on the NHL tile: staged, soloed on stream, toast confirms

It's off by default and remembers your choice per browser.

The spin, click by click

The classic mid-break move, on the new layout:

  1. Picks are running — Team Tracker on stage, tracker overlay live on stream.
  2. Spot sells, time to spin — click the Randomizer tile. With Follow Stage on, that's it: wheel on your screen, wheel on stream. (Without it: click, then Send to stream.)
  3. Run the spin from the stage — entries, SPIN, confirm.
  4. Click the tracker tile to flip everything back.

Two clicks total, and you never touched OBS.

Good to know

  • Hiding is not removing. The eyes and Send to stream only toggle visibility — your sources, sizes, and positions in OBS stay exactly where you put them.
  • Two overlays at once is fine. Don't want auto-hiding? Leave Follow Stage off and drive the eyes by hand — they're independent switches.
  • The eyes reflect OBS, even if you change things in OBS. Toggle a source inside OBS itself and the Command Center picks up the truth next time it reads (on connect and before each toggle).
  • Everything needs a connection. No OBS connected = no eyes, no solo, no Follow Stage; the strip is still your view manager. OBS sync needs an active subscription or trial — if your plan lapses, the OBS controls step aside until you're back.