Cue lights and pagers for live production
13 Years
A producer runs the show from the 13 Years Producer on a Mac or iPad. Every role on the team (host, tech, band and so on) gets a Pager on the device already in their hand, showing STANDBY and GO in large colour, a synced countdown, notes for their role, and messages from the producer.
What the Pager and Producer do
The Producer runs the plan. The Pagers tell everyone what to do next.
STANDBY and GO in large colour
A dark, high-contrast display that reads from across the stage. Amber for standby, green for go.
Synced countdown
The current item and its countdown, kept in step with the Producer on every pager.
Notes for each role
Host, tech, band and so on each see the notes meant for them, plus messages from the producer.
Pulls the plan from Planning Center
The Producer reads your service plan from Planning Center so you are not retyping it. Optional.
Finds the Producer for you
Pagers discover the Producer on your local network, or connect to a host and port you enter.
Private by design
No account, no analytics, no tracking, no advertising, and no server run by the developer.
How it works
The Producer talks directly to the pagers on your network. Nothing goes through the developer.
Run the Producer
Start the 13 Years Producer on a Mac or iPad, or use a hosted headless Producer your team runs.
Open a Pager
Put an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or ESP32 pager on the same network. It finds the Producer automatically, or you enter host:port.
Choose a role
Pick host, tech, band or any other role. You see STANDBY, GO, the countdown and your notes.
If a Pager cannot find the Producer on its own, for example on a hosted Producer, enter its address as host or host:port. The default port is 13380.
Platforms
The Pager runs on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac. The Producer runs on Mac and iPad.
Pager
iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac. Shows cues, countdowns, notes and messages for your role.
Needs a 13 Years Producer on your network.
Producer
Mac and iPad. Runs the plan, sends cues, optionally connects to Planning Center.
Mac downloads are on GitHub Releases.
ESP32 hardware pagers
Small dedicated pagers built from ESP32 boards, for crew who do not want a phone on stage.
Firmware is in the source repository.
Hosted Producer
Run the Producer headless on a server so it is always on for your team.
Whoever runs the server is responsible for it.
Get it
The Pager is heading to the App Store. Until then, join the public beta on TestFlight. The Producer for Mac and the Mac Pager are available as disk images on GitHub.
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