Big Screen mode & printing

After mixing a round, two options get matchups in front of players without everyone crowding around your phone: put them on a TV or projector with Big Screen mode, or print a court sheet for the wall.

Big Screen mode

Open Big Screen mode with the Show All Courts button (the 📺 icon) above the courts. Every player appears alongside their court assignment — plus anyone sitting out — in a layout sized to be read from across the room.

The whole roster fits on one screen with no scrolling. Live, right on the screen, you can adjust text size and column count to fit the display, sort by name (so players can find themselves fast) or by court, toggle color cues that tint everyone on the same court the same color, and switch between a light or dark background. It's more than a display: a built-in countdown timer, buzzer, and auto-mix can generate each new round automatically when time runs out — hands-free rotation while you play.

If Sort Courts by Rating is on in one of the renumbering modes (highest-rated = Court 1, or highest-rated = highest court #), the big screen mirrors that numbering — both the in-page "Show all courts" display and the separate big-screen window show and order courts by their rank-aware numbers. The Keep original court numbers mode leaves physical numbers; pseudonyms always take precedence.

Timer, buzzer & auto-mix

Big Screen mode doubles as a round clock. Turn on auto-mix, pick an interval, and walk away: when the countdown runs out a loud buzzer fires, the next round generates, and the clock restarts — hands-free rotation while you play. Auto-mix stops after a few hours of continuous looping so it never runs unattended overnight.

The on-screen controls fade after a few seconds to keep the display clean. Tap anywhere to bring them back.

The join QR — player self-service

With Player self-service turned on, the big screen grows a QR code:

• Before the first mix it becomes a Scan to check in screen — players scan with their phones, tap their name (or add it), and their names light up as they arrive.
• During the session a Scan to join this mixer code sits alongside the courts for late arrivals — and every player who has scanned sees their court on their own phone each round, with buttons to sit out or check out.

Combined with auto-mix, the session runs itself: the buzzer fires, the next round generates, and the changes players made from their phones fold in automatically. See Player self-service for the full tour.

Printing court sheets

Open the print flow with the Print Courts button (the 🖨️ icon). It's two steps:

1. Pick which rounds to print. Select any rounds from your history — one, several, or all of them. You can also generate extra rounds on the spot and add them to the printout.
2. Preview and adjust. Tweak font size, spacing, and column count, or hit Fit to 1 Page to size everything automatically. Optional color markers — colored borders or shapes next to names — give each player a consistent symbol so they can spot themselves across rounds.

The printout lists each round's courts with their players (and sitters, unless you've hidden sit-outs). Tap any court label in the preview to rename it for that printout only — useful when your facility uses names like "North" or "Court 3."

When Sort Courts by Rating is on in a renumbering mode, the print output renumbers and orders each game by its own court ratings — so every printed round reflects that round's skill order. Your per-round print-only court-label overrides and any court pseudonyms still take precedence over the rank number; Keep original court numbers prints physical numbers.

Big Screen mode vs printing: which should I use?

Big Screen mode	Printing
Live — updates each round	Fixed snapshot on paper
Requires a TV or projector at the venue	Works anywhere, no screen needed
Built-in timer, buzzer, auto-mix	Players keep their own sheet
One shared display	Post on a wall or hand out copies

You can use both at once — Big Screen on the TV for the live round, a printed sheet as backup for anyone who'd rather check paper.

Hiding the branding bar in Big Screen mode

The branding bar runs across the bottom of the display. Click it directly to dismiss it — the layout recalculates to fill the reclaimed space, giving you a cleaner projector image. The bar returns the next time you open Big Screen mode; the toggle is intentionally per-session so you can leave it on for regular use and hide it only when the projector is running.

Big Screen keyboard shortcuts

While Big Screen mode is open, a set of single-key shortcuts lets you adjust the display without touching the screen controls:

Key	Action
+ or =	Increase font size
-	Decrease font size
[	Fewer columns
]	More columns
Space	Cycle color cues (off → colored borders → arrows → off)
S	Toggle sort direction (horizontal ↔ vertical fill)
C	Toggle sort by court number
B	Toggle light/dark background
R	Reset to auto layout (also toggles branding bar)
M	Mix next round (or advance to next history game)
A	Start/stop auto-mix at the last-used interval
H	Hide/show the controls bar
Escape	Close Big Screen mode

Print preview keyboard shortcuts

Once you're in the print preview (after selecting rounds and clicking Preview), the same keyboard-driven approach is available for fine-tuning the layout before you print:

Key	Action
+ or =	Increase player name font size
-	Decrease player name font size
T	Increase round title size
Shift+T	Decrease round title size
S	Increase row spacing
Shift+S	Decrease row spacing
[	Fewer columns
]	More columns
F	Fit to 1 page (auto-calculates optimal size)
C	Cycle color marker mode
M	Toggle page margins
H	Hide/show the controls panel
B	Back to round selection
P	Print
Escape	Close the print modal

Share the schedule as an image

The Share button in the print preview generates a PNG and hands it to your device's share sheet — the same one you'd use for photos or links. From there, send it to a group chat, post it, or save it.

The image includes a watermark band with the PickleFriend logo and URL. Before the share sheet opens, a caption picker offers four presets (Recruit, Brag, Hype, Recap) plus a free-text area. The image renders in the background while you're picking, so it's usually ready by the time you choose.

On desktop browsers without native share-sheet support, the image downloads as pickleball-schedule.png and the caption text goes to your clipboard.

The Share button only appears in the preview phase — select at least one round and click Preview first.

What's next

• Settings reference — fine-tune defaults like hiding sit-outs and naming courts.
• Court controls — freeze courts, pin players, set pseudonyms, and adjust court display settings.
• Organizer score entry — record results once the round is done.