Creating a dashboardRequires Pro
Create a browser-based dashboard for monitoring and controlling a Time-line Live flow.
Time-line Live Automations include a dashboard that shows what is being triggered in real time. The provided widgets fit together in one view, so you always know what is happening.
The Time-line Widgets
Three specific widgets are provided. All three receive data directly from Time-line Live — no wiring needed. They only display information and do not send anything out. For an overview of all nodes, see Using Time-line Node-RED Nodes.
- Key Point details: the current section and its progress.
- Song details: currently playing title + artist, with a playhead timecode (position / duration).
- Upcoming Key Point: the next sections as a row, with seconds-until for each.
Build Your First Dashboard
Dashboard widgets live in a small hierarchy: a Page holds Groups, groups hold widgets. Node-RED walks you through it the first time.
Drag Song details (Live dashboard) into the workspace.
Double-click it. Next to Group, click the pencil → add a new group → next to its Page, add a new page. Accept the defaults, Add your way back out.
Add Key Point details and Upcoming Key Points the same way — pick the group you just created.
Save.
Open Your Dashboard
The dashboard lives at /dashboard on the same address as the editor — for example http://127.0.0.1:1880/dashboard on the computer that is running Time-line Live.
Open it from another device on the network using the Time-line machine's IP (for example: http://10.0.0.1:1880/dashboard).
Beyond the Time-line Widgets
The dashboard is using FlowFuse Dashboard 2.0 — you can mix in its standard widgets (charts, gauges, buttons, text) on the same page and feed them from any flow. Wire a Beat node into a chart, or add buttons that send OSC.
Blank widgets?
- Is Time-line Live running? The widgets read its live snapshot.
- Is a deck playing? Some widgets show nothing meaningful without a track.
- Opened from another device? Check network and IP, same as any receiver — see Connecting Your Show System.
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