Launch the projector

Launching the projector means opening the full-screen display view on the computer that's plugged into your TV or projector. Once it's running, it cycles through the loop on its own until you close the window.

The projector view is a web page. Any device with a browser can run it — a laptop, a mini PC, a Chromecast with a keyboard, a Fire Stick, an old tablet. You sign in on that device once, navigate to the projector page, and then walk away.

Prerequisites

• A display loop saved, or at least one leaderboard or latest scores module you want to show on its own

Launch a full loop

1. On the venue computer (the one connected to the TV or projector), sign in to Gym Art Meets and open your meet.

2. Go to Projector Display in the sidebar.

3. In the Loop builder panel on the right, pick the loop you want to show from the dropdown.

4. Click Start display.

The browser navigates to a full-screen view with no sidebar. Now put the browser itself into full-screen mode so the address bar, tabs, and OS menu bar all disappear from the projection.

Hide the browser chrome

The shortcut depends on your browser and OS:

Browser	macOS	Windows
Chrome	Ctrl + Cmd + F	F11
Safari	Ctrl + Cmd + F (or click the green window button)	—
Edge	Ctrl + Cmd + F	F11
Firefox	Ctrl + Cmd + F	F11

If the top bar still shows a thin strip after going full-screen:

• Chrome on Mac — the menu bar reappears when your mouse hits the top edge. Move the mouse to the bottom of the screen and leave it there, or use Chrome's own full-screen (View → Enter Full Screen) which hides the menu bar too.

• Safari on Mac — go to View → Always Show Toolbar in Full Screen and turn it off. Same for the tab bar (View → Always Show Tab Bar in Full Screen).

• Windows — hover the mouse at the very top of the screen; if a bar appears, you're in Chrome's "immersive" mode. Press F11 again, or use View → Full Screen from the menu to toggle between modes.

Press the same shortcut again to exit full-screen when you need to get back to the admin.

Launch a single module without a loop

Sometimes you just want one screen up — for example, a vault station TV that only ever shows the latest vault scores.

1. From the Projector Display page, open the module you want from the Module library.

2. Click Show display at the top of the configuration form.

The full-screen view opens with only that module playing. For a latest scores module, the feed stays visible until you close the window. For a leaderboard module, it cycles through the apparatus you configured and starts over.

Launch latest scores for a session without building a module

There's a shortcut to project a session's latest scores without creating a module first. Go to the session in the meet dashboard and click Projector Display in the session's sidebar. Pick the apparatus you want and click Show display. This is useful for a quick station TV where you don't need saved configuration.

Keep the projector running

The single most common way a projector goes dark mid-meet is that nobody changed the computer's sleep settings. The browser is doing its job, but the OS decided it was idle. Before the meet starts, walk through these on the venue computer.

On macOS

1. Open System Settings → Lock Screen.

2. Set Start Screen Saver when inactive to Never.

3. Set Turn display off when inactive to Never (or at least longer than the meet).

4. Set Require password after screen saver begins or display is turned off to Never for the day.

5. Open System Settings → Battery (laptops) or Energy Saver (desktops).

6. Under Power Adapter, set Turn display off after to Never and enable Prevent automatic sleeping when the display is off.

7. If it's a laptop, either keep the lid open or plug in an external monitor and enable clamshell mode (Apple menu → System Settings → Battery → Options → "Prevent automatic sleeping on power adapter when the display is off").

Also check Notifications and turn on Do Not Disturb so banners don't pop up over the projection.

On Windows

1. Open Settings → System → Power & battery (or Power Options on older builds).

2. Under Screen and sleep, set both When plugged in, turn my screen off after and When plugged in, put my device to sleep after to Never.

3. Open Settings → System → Lock screen (or the old Control Panel → Personalization → Screen Saver) and set Screen saver to (None).

4. Open Settings → Focus and turn on Focus or Do not disturb so notifications don't pop up on the projected screen.

5. If it's a laptop, open Power Options → Choose what closing the lid does and set When I close the lid → Plugged in → Do nothing.

Everywhere

• Plug the laptop in. Battery power often triggers separate, more aggressive sleep rules even when you've disabled them for AC power.

• Close other apps. Background apps with notifications (Slack, Teams, email) can flash alerts over the full-screen projector.

• Don't close the browser tab. If you need to come back and adjust something, open a second browser or use a different device.

If the page does go blank or the computer restarts, just re-open the bookmark and click Start display again. The projector picks up from the current state of the loop; it doesn't need any extra setup.

Multiple projectors

You can run different loops on different computers at the same time. Each computer opens its own projector view and picks its own loop from the dropdown. Every projector independently cycles through its own loop — they aren't synchronized with each other.

This is how you split by location: one loop for the main hall, another for the vault warmup area, another for the lobby.

What's next

• Update a running projector from another device — Change what a projector is showing without touching its computer

Related

• Build a display loop

• Organizer event-day guide

• Projector display overview