Put GOGO on Your Gym TV

A scoreboard nobody can see is a spreadsheet. The whole point of the free GOGO dashboard — timers, scoreboards, team lists, giant instructions — is that it lives on the big screen where the class, the club or the crowd can read it. This guide is the plumbing: every common way to get a browser onto a gym TV or projector, how to make it come back by itself after a reboot, and why the screen won't go to sleep at 4 minutes into a 5-minute countdown.

The one-off way: any laptop and an HDMI cable

For a single session, don't overthink it. Plug any laptop into the TV or projector, open gogoscoreboard.com/dashboard, and either tap a tile's fullscreen button or — better — hit Display in the top bar. Display opens a clean, chrome-free mirror window: drag it onto the TV screen, fullscreen it there, and keep the normal dashboard on the laptop as your control desk. You score on the laptop; the TV follows. Your layouts are saved in the browser, so next week it's two clicks.

Chromebook or Chromebox: the school workhorse

A £150 Chromebox velcroed behind the TV is the classic school signage rig, and a retired Chromebook does the same job. Two levels of commitment:

Startup page. In Chrome's settings, under On startup, choose Open a specific page and set it to your dashboard — use a stable layout link like gogoscoreboard.com/dashboard/?layout=Gym%20TV so the right board loads, not just the last one you edited. Power on, Chrome opens, the board is up.

Kiosk / managed guest session. On school-managed ChromeOS, ask IT to add the dashboard URL as a kiosk app or a managed guest session's startup page in the Google Admin console. The device then boots straight into the board with no login, no desktop and nothing else to click — true appliance mode. One warning for managed fleets: some policies wipe browser storage between sessions, which would wipe your saved layouts. The fix ships with the dashboard — Back up layouts in the layout menu downloads everything as one file, and Restore brings it back in seconds.

Fire TV stick: the £30 no-computer route

A Fire TV stick in the TV's HDMI port can run the board with no computer at all. Install a browser from the Amazon app store (Amazon's own Silk browser is the usual choice), browse to the dashboard, and fullscreen it. Pair a cheap Bluetooth mouse if the remote's D-pad gets tedious. This is a great fit for a lobby standings screen or an announcements ticker; for fast live scoring you'll still want the controls on a laptop or phone with the TV as the Display window — or the GOGO app driving it, below.

Apple TV: AirPlay from the GOGO app

An Apple TV has no browser, and doesn't need one. The free GOGO iPhone app AirPlays a broadcast-style scoreboard straight to it: open your match, tap the Cast button, pick the Apple TV, and the phone in your hand becomes the scoring remote while the TV shows the themed venue board. This is the best-looking of all the routes — real LED-style boards per sport — and the same phone can simultaneously feed a live web link for anyone who can't see the TV.

Interactive smart panels

The Promethean, SMART or BenQ panel already bolted to the gym wall is a giant Android tablet — every one ships a built-in browser. Open it, load the dashboard, fullscreen, done. Because the panel is touch, the board is directly tappable: score taps, timer starts and the noise meter's limit slider all work by poking the wall. Save the browser to the panel's home screen so it's one icon for the next teacher.

Why the screen doesn't sleep

The dashboard requests a screen Wake Lock whenever a timer or clock is running, so the display stays on mid-countdown without anyone wiggling a mouse. Two caveats: battery-saver modes can refuse the lock (plug the device in), and a board showing only static tiles doesn't hold one — for all-day signage set the device's display-sleep to never as well. That's the whole checklist: screen on the wall, board on the screen, and it comes back tomorrow by itself.

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