Use case · Match day
One tap. Game on.
Broadcast-grade video routing and audio recall — reduced to a single button a volunteer can run in a dark room, without training and without touching a single piece of gear.
Client · CJ Fútbol
Built for · 2026 World Cup watch parties
Surface · iPad app
Runs · switcher · audio · Apple TV · lights · power
CJ FútbolBRIDGE
NOW · LIVE 3'
Mexico1
Croatia1
GROUP D · HARD ROCK STADIUM
OTHER LIVE
USA · Brazil2 – 0
Morocco · Spain0 – 0
Upcoming · 417:00
THE BOOTH
Game On
APPLE TV · LED WALL · AUDIO · POWER
APPLE TV VOLUME50%
An iPad that hides a control room behind one button.
Left: the live match schedule and scores. Right: “The Booth” — one warm Game On that fires an entire macro, and a gated Game Off that tears it back down. The volunteer only ever sees this screen.
1
tap from dark room to game-on-the-wall
0
pieces of gear the volunteer touches
5
systems fired by one button
~0
minutes of training required
Before & after
Same gear. Completely different job.
Find the one person who knows the switcher. Route the source by hand.
Tap the game. The wall routes itself — a Ross custom control fired for you.
Recall the right audio scene on the DM7, unmute the feed, ride the level.
Audio comes up with the macro. One thick fader; mics one toggle away.
Juggle Apple TV, lights, and wall power across three other remotes.
All of it rides the same button — and “Game Off” resets the room cleanly.
A mistake in front of a full room is one wrong button away.
Destructive actions are gated and confirmed; the live state is obvious at a glance.
The craft
Making high-end tech volunteer-proof.
The engineering underneath is real broadcast control. The experience is designed for a non-technical person in a hurry. That gap is the actual work — and it lives in a hundred small, deliberate choices.
“Bridge,” never “daemon”
The on-prem service is the Bridge in every label a volunteer sees — “daemon” reads as “demon.” The language is as designed as the buttons.
Hard to mistap
Game On is pin-gated; Game Off is pinned, red, and confirmed; mics default off. The costly actions take intent.
Big targets, dark room
Landscape, full-screen, chunky controls, a fader thick enough to grab without looking. Glanceable from three feet away.
A confidence readout
A “now on” card and a Bridge-online dot answer the operator’s only real question: is the right thing actually on the wall?
Under the hood
The complexity lives where volunteers never see it.
The iPad never speaks to the gear directly. It sends one simple request to the Bridge — an on-prem service that knows how to speak each machine’s native language and fires them in the right order. The same architecture pattern behind the weekend-service system: keep the hard part backstage.
iPad · one tap
FACE-ID GATED · LANDSCAPE
SWIFTUI · TESTFLIGHT
→
The Bridge
ON-PREM SERVICE
TRANSLATES + SEQUENCES
→
The rig
SWITCHER · AUDIO · APPLE TV
LIGHTS · POWER
Video · Ross Carbonite / Ultrix (RossTalk)
Audio · Yamaha DM7 (SCP)
Feed · Apple TV recall
Live data · schedule + scores
Room · lighting + wall power
One request in. The whole rig responds.
IPAD → THE BRIDGE → THE RIG
Photo · Kevin Ache / Unsplash
The result
Broadcast-grade tech, hidden behind one button.
A volunteer walks up, taps the game about to kick off, and the room comes alive. At the final whistle, one more tap resets it. The engineering disappears.
Built for a multi-campus church’s 2026 World Cup watch parties — the summer the biggest football event on earth came to South Florida.
Match schedule and scores shown are illustrative. Product names — Ross, Yamaha, Apple TV — are trademarks of their respective owners, used descriptively. This page is not affiliated with or endorsed by FIFA or any football governing body.