Two HDMI outputs.
Countdowns and cues on two outputs, on one rundown. The timer gets its own box, so your laptop's HDMI is free for slides and playback.
Downstage One
Coming soon
The show clock. Two HDMI outputs, and every browser on the network.
Give your laptop its HDMI back.
The show clock moves into a box of its own, with two HDMI outputs. Your laptop goes back to the slides, and stops being the one cable nobody is allowed to touch.
HDMI 2 ·
HDMI 1 ·
HDMI 2 Backstage TV
HDMI 1 Stage monitor
Both screens follow one rundown. Add a minute, and every screen in the building knows before the presenter does.
The clock is just the start.
The timer is the headline act, but the same box earns its rack space all day.
Every browser.
Tablets, TVs and laptops on the same network become timer views, with nothing to install.1
Spoken time calls.
"Two minutes," out of the audio jack, with cue tones, so you can tie them into your comms system.
Stream Deck control room.
Bitfocus Companion runs onboard, so a Stream Deck on the One drives your switcher, cameras, OBS and the timer.2 No Stream Deck? The Virtual Deck puts the buttons in any browser. Already run Companion at front of house? Satellite mode hands the One's decks to your own Companion.
Signage and dashboards.
External Viewer puts any web page on either output: the day's schedule, slides, a dashboard. Two independent 1080p pages, managed from your phone.
Signal check.
Test card, SMPTE bars, grid, grey ramp and an AV-sync pattern, drawn on the device at native resolution before any server is set up.
Three steps, then doors.
No app to install, no account to make, no cloud to depend on.
Power it on
Plug into the venue network, or don't. With no network, it opens its own WiFi and the front panel shows where to connect.
Point a browser
The front panel shows its address, like downstage-0000.local:8080. Build the rundown and set your views.
Doors
Confidence monitor at the podium, clock backstage, schedule in the lobby. Add five minutes and every screen updates at once.
Built for the bad day.
Everything here exists because something went wrong at a real gig once.
Watchdog failover
If the timer server drops, screens show a clean holding page and come back on their own.
Failsafe boot media
A second boot card rides inside, kept in sync. If the main drive fails, the One boots from the backup.
Updates that roll back
One button installs Downstage OS updates. A bad update rolls itself back.
No internet required
A battery-backed clock keeps real time through power cuts. Everything runs in the room.
Setup hotspot
No venue WiFi? It broadcasts its own network, with its password on the quick-start card.
Blackout button
Every output to black, one press, from any phone on the network. Back just as fast.
Show profile included
Ontime and Companion install with one click, already set up for doors.
One-button front panel
Tap for status, a big clock or the setup code. Hold three seconds for a clean shutdown.
Tech specs.
- Outputs
- Two HDMI: confidence monitor and backstage
- Timer views
- Any browser on the network: tablets, TVs, laptops1
- Audio
- Spoken time calls and cue tones from the audio jack
- Clock
- Battery-backed, keeps time through power cuts
- Control
- Bitfocus Companion onboard, with a Stream Deck or the Virtual Deck2
- USB
- Four ports. They power up to two 15-key Stream Decks; for more, use a powered USB hub2
- Front panel
- A display that shows the unit's address, and one button
- Power
- Its own USB-C power supply, 5 V 5 A (27 W)4
- Enclosure
- Aluminum
- Software
- Downstage OS, public on GitHub, with Ontime and Bitfocus Companion
Downstage View
Turns any screen into a display.
Plugs in behind the screen and shows the One's timer, full screen.
Cue lights
Tally for every camera.
Companion runs inside the One, so the Cue Mini and the Cue 360 join it with no computer to keep running.3
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