On the forum we find a lot of posts about how to show scores and playing time in vMix. Most of the post describes how to create a scoreboard but still you have to set the score from the Home and Away, and the time to be played, manually. OCR was one of the possibilities we tried but it was too inaccurate. We found a way of taking over this information automatically and show it in vMix.

We installed a Raspberry Pi with two piggy bagged IO cards to do so. At the software side we will be reading IO data, publish it on a webserver and let it read out by JSON query with a frequency of 50 ms. In the manual attached I will try to explain how to make this work. You will need to have (basic) knowledge of electronics and the ability to use a solder iron but I think anyone can make this work.

If you need any help please drop me an email or reply on this topic. It looks like a lot of work to be done but in fact it is less than a day's work and will save you a lot of time in the future to have accurate scores and time with no manual effort anymore.

Hi!

This is very interesting. Would you mind posting images from the whole proces for people with zero knowledge in programing like me? Maybe a video tutorial will be easier for you to do and for us to understand.

Thank you!