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Everyday use (Game Day Scoreboard)

Once your Apollo M-1 follows a team, the device page is where you decide how the scoreboard spends its day. Follow one team or a whole list, jump to big plays in other games, show a clock between games, dim the panel at night, and keep an eye on your favorite players and the bets you've placed. This guide walks through the settings you'll reach for most, named the way the device page shows them.

Before you start

  • Your M-1 runs Game Day Scoreboard and is on your Wi-Fi. See Getting started (Game Day Scoreboard).
  • Open the device page: scan the QR code the panel shows when it starts, or open its address, like gameday-2f6a70.local. Hold the boot button for about 1.5 seconds to see the address again.
  • Most settings sit in cards that fold. Tap a card's name, like Panel or Celebrations, to open it.

Choose what the panel follows

The three mode buttons under Quick settings pick what the panel follows. A change takes effect right away and stays through restarts.

Mode What the panel does Good for
My team Follows one team: its next game, the live game, then the final for half an hour (ten minutes for baseball) before it looks up the next game. Your one team, a golf tour, or a racing series.
Favorite teams Cycles through up to 16 teams from any league, 10 seconds each, and a favorite's game takes the panel shortly before kickoff. A household with several teams.
Live games Follows a game in progress, picked at random from the leagues you choose, and moves on when it ends or after Switch every. Game days when you want to see everything that's on.

In My team, tap Change team to pick the team. A golf tour or a racing series can only be followed here, not as a favorite or a Live games league.

Set up your favorite teams

Favorite teams turns the panel into a playlist of every team in your house, from any league, with the most important ones first.

  1. Open the Favorites card and tap Add a favorite.
  2. Tap a team in the chooser. It goes to the end of your list.
  3. Use the arrows to move teams up or down. The order is the priority, and the first four are buttons 1 to 4 on a WizMote remote.
  4. Tap the Favorite teams mode button.

The bar under the mode buttons says Cycling through your favorites, and shows Locked on and the team's name once a favorite's game takes the panel. Three settings in that bar decide how it locks on:

Setting What it does Starts at
Take over How many minutes before kickoff a favorite's game takes the panel, 5 to 120. 15
After the final How long a favorite's final stays up before the playlist comes back, 30 seconds to 60 minutes. 30 seconds
Two games at once Stick with the higher team in your list, or Alternate between the games. Alternate

Only today's games, in the Favorites card, keeps the playlist to the favorites playing today. A new panel starts with it on.

Set up Live games

Live games picks from the leagues of your team and favorites until you choose your own. Tap the league buttons under the mode buttons to pick by hand, and Back to automatic to go back. Golf and racing aren't part of Live games.

With a team picked and no live games on, the panel shows your team's card and says so in the ticker, like No live NFL games, showing DAL, then switches as soon as a game starts.

Set how fast it moves on

These settings decide how long the panel stays before it moves on, and the quickest choice for each is 30 seconds:

Setting Where Choices Starts at
Switch every Live games bar 30 s, or 1 to 30 minutes 1 minute
Alternate Favorite teams bar, next to Two games at once The same setting as Switch every 1 minute
Stay on a big play Celebrations card 30 seconds, 1 minute, 90 seconds, 2, 3, or 5 minutes 1 minute

Between games, the Favorite teams playlist shows each card for 10 seconds. A Live games turn starts once the panel has the game's score, so even a 30 second turn shows the whole board. Time spent on a big play in another game doesn't count against the turn. In Live games, 30 s uses about twice the data of 1 minute, since each switch reads the leagues' games again.

Follow this game

Found a game worth watching in Live games or Favorite teams? Keep it on the board instead of moving on. While the game is on the board, turn on Follow this game in the Quick settings card. The switch then reads Following this game.

The panel stays with that game until it ends. In Live games it then goes back to switching games, and in Favorite teams it goes back to your favorites once the final has been up for After the final. Turn the switch off to go back sooner. A restart turns it off, since the panel doesn't save it.

The switch only shows while there's a game to follow: a game Live games picked, or a favorite's game in Favorite teams, that hasn't ended. My team already follows one team, so it has no such switch. While you follow a game, the panel doesn't check other games for big plays either.

Celebrations and big plays

When a team scores or makes a big play, the panel fills the screen with a splash in the team's color for about 7 seconds. The splash shows the team's logo and the points it gained, like +6 for a touchdown or +2 RUNS for a two-run home run. On a single 64x64 panel, or a board filling three or four panels in a row, there's room for the number only, like +2. A win gets a victory splash with fireworks.

The Celebrations card has a switch for each kind of splash, all on to start. It lists only the sports your panel follows:

Sport Splashes
Football Touchdown, Field goal, Extra point, 2-point conversion, Safety, Interception, Fumble recovery
Baseball Runs, Home run, Grand slam, Walk-off
Hockey Goal
Soccer Goal, Penalty goal, Red card
Basketball Lead change, Buzzer beater, Overtime, Final
Favorite players Scores

Basketball doesn't splash every basket, since a game has around a hundred scoring plays. It celebrates a late lead change, a buzzer beater, each overtime, and the final when your team didn't win. Minor league baseball gets Runs and Walk-off only, since its scores don't say how a run scored, and AHL and ECHL goals splash like NHL goals.

Two more switches at the top of the card shape whose splashes you see:

  • Opponent scores too turns the other side's scores and big plays on or off. A red card, overtime, and the final show either way.
  • Favorite teams only keeps big-play splashes in Live games to games with your team or a favorite on either side.

Switch to big plays in other games

While the panel shows its game, it can keep an eye on other live games too. When one has a big play, like a touchdown, a home run, a goal, or a late lead change, the panel switches to that game, shows the splash, stays for Stay on a big play, then goes back. It checks each game about every 45 seconds.

Mode Games it watches
Live games Every other game in its leagues, or only your team's and favorites' with Favorite teams only on
Favorite teams Your other favorites' games
My team Your favorites' games, if you have any

Your team's live game is never left for another game's big play unless a favorite plays in that other game and Switch from my team is on. That switch starts off. Golf, racing, minor league baseball, AHL and ECHL games, and soccer cup matches aren't watched.

Watching other games uses more data

Switch to big plays in other games starts on. In Live games it can use up to about 20 MB an hour on an NFL Sunday, and in My team and Favorite teams about 1 to 1.5 MB an hour for each favorite's game. If your internet plan has a data cap, turn it off in the Celebrations card. Data used in the Device card shows how much the panel has downloaded since it started.

Make the clock and the ticker bigger

Reading the panel from across the room? Two settings in the Panel card make the clock and the ticker bigger, and a change shows at once, with no restart.

  • Clock size: Normal or Large. Large makes the game clock bigger during a game, like 5:21 3rd or Halftime, and the time wherever the panel shows a clock: the off-season clock, the idle display's Clock, the Clock page, and the second area's Clock and date. It only grows where it fits without covering the logos, records, or scores.
  • Text size: Normal or Large. Large makes the ticker's letters half again as tall. A golf or racing leaderboard keeps the small letters.

The same card holds Ticker speed, from 1 (slowest) to 10 (fastest), starting at 5, and Showing, which switches the panel between the Scoreboard and a plain Clock page.

When nothing is on: the idle display

The Idle display, in the Quick settings card, picks what the panel shows while none of the games it follows is on. The panel goes back to the game by itself when one you follow starts.

Choice What the panel shows
Next game Each mode's own board: your team's next game, your favorites in turn, or recent scores. A new panel starts here.
Clock The time in your team's colors, with its next game on a wide panel.
Scores Recent final scores and the games still to come today, for your team's and your favorites' leagues.
My team today On game day, the matchup with a countdown to the start, then the final until midnight. Other days, the clock.
Off or dim The panel goes dark, or down to the Dim to level you set, from 0 (off) to 255. Panel on stays on.

A splash finishes before the idle display takes over, so a win's splash always shows whole. A big play in another game still lights the panel for its stay, even with Off or dim. To keep the panel dark while games you don't follow are on, turn off Switch to big plays in other games.

Night hours

Night hours dim the panel overnight without you touching it.

  1. Open the Panel card and turn on Night hours.
  2. Set From and To. They start at 10 PM and 7 AM and can run past midnight.
  3. Set the Night brightness, from 1 to 255. It starts at 20.

During the night hours the panel runs at the night brightness and shows the idle display, with the clock in place of Next game and Scores. A game you follow still shows when it's on. If you change the brightness at night, your change holds until the hours end, and the next night starts at the night brightness again.

Ranks and standings

College teams show their rank by themselves. In college football and men's college basketball, a ranked team gets ESPN's rank in front of its name, like #5 OSU, in the ticker, on the board where it fits, and on the device page.

For pro teams, Standing next to pro teams in the Panel card picks what your team shows where its record goes:

Choice Shows
Record The season record, like 10-3. A new panel starts here.
Seed ESPN's playoff seed, like Seed 4.
Place The team's place in its division, conference, or league, like 1st NFCE.

It covers your team in My team, or the favorite on the board in Favorite teams, and the other team keeps its record. Minor league baseball, AHL, and ECHL teams always show their record. The setting is hidden while the panel follows only college, minor league, golf, or racing teams.

Favorite players

Pick up to eight players, and the panel tells you how they're doing whenever their game is on the board.

  1. Open the Favorite players card and tap Pick a team.
  2. Choose the player from the Player list. Your browser reads the roster from ESPN, so the phone or computer you're using needs internet.
  3. Tap Add player. The card says Added once the panel has them.

While a favorite player leads a category in the game on the board, the ticker shows their stat line, like ALLEN 21/34, 241 YDS, 2 TD. Football, basketball, and baseball have game leaders; hockey and soccer don't, so they get no stat line. When a favorite player scores, the celebration names them, like ALLEN TOUCHDOWN, in place of the team's splash. The Scores switch under Favorite players in the Celebrations card turns that on or off.

Basketball names a player only for a late lead change or a buzzer beater, and hockey only when ESPN's words for the goal name your player. Golf, racing, minor league baseball, the AHL, and the ECHL have no rosters to pick from.

Track your bets

Type in a bet you've placed, and the ticker tells you whether it's covering. The panel never connects to a sportsbook and never asks for an account.

  1. Open the Bets card and tap Pick a team. The On now tab lists today's games, so you can tap the side you bet on.
  2. Choose the Bet: Point spread, Total, over, Total, under, or Moneyline.
  3. Type the Line. For a spread, tap − if the team is the favorite or + if it's the underdog, then type the points, like 3.5. For a total, type the game's total, like 47.5. A moneyline has no line.
  4. Tap Add bet.

The bet goes at the end of its game's ticker: BET BUF -3.5 before the start, then COVERING, NOT COVERING, or PUSH during the game, and WON, LOST, or PUSH after the final, until midnight. The panel keeps up to eight bets and follows them only on games it already reads: the game on the board, and in Favorite teams your favorites' games. Until a bet's team comes on the board, the Bets card says so, like Starts when the panel shows a BUF game.

The ticker

The ticker along the bottom carries what doesn't fit on the board: the start time, the line, the over/under, the TV channel, and the venue before a game, and the game situation and last play during it. Your favorite players' stat lines and your bets come after the game's own parts.

The Ticker card has a switch for each part, all on to start, and shows only the switches for sports your panel follows:

Switch What it adds
Down and distance Football: the down, yards to go, and where the ball is. It starts with RED ZONE inside the 20.
Count and at-bat Baseball: the count, outs, pitcher, and batter.
Match stats Soccer: goals, cards, possession, and shots.
Last play ESPN's latest play in every sport. In soccer, the latest goal or card.
Pre-game odds and TV The line, over/under, and TV channel before the start.

The ticker also tells you when something needs attention. no update for and a number of minutes means the panel has missed three reads in a row and the score may be old; it clears by itself. Too warm, dimming or Check power supply means the panel is holding its brightness down.

Next step: go bigger

Want the scoreboard across the wall? The bigger boards guide covers three and four panels in a row, two rows of two, and the second area that shows a clock, today's scores, or another game beside your team's.

Build a bigger board

Learn more

The Game Day Scoreboard docs go deeper on each topic: