Legcast

Getting started

From install to your first broadcast in about five minutes.

Legcast is a Chrome extension. It reads your DartCounter match and drives OBS Studio for you. You need Chrome or Edge, OBS Studio 28 or newer and a DartCounter account. A Target Omni or another auto-scoring board is a bonus, not a must.

  1. Add Legcast to Chrome
  2. Connect OBS
  3. Build your scene
  4. Play a match
  5. Add your licence key
  6. Extras: auto-zoom, phone camera, clips, music
  7. Something not working?

1Add Legcast to Chrome

Open Legcast in the Chrome Web Store and click Add to Chrome. Your 14 days of Pro start straight away, no card needed. The setup assistant opens by itself.

Get Legcast

Pin the Legcast icon: click the puzzle piece next to the address bar and click the pin. The icon gives you quick buttons such as the countdown and a test match.

2Connect OBS

Legcast talks to OBS through its built-in WebSocket server. You only do this once.

  1. Open OBS Studio.
  2. Click Tools → WebSocket Server Settings.
  3. Tick Enable WebSocket server and click Show Connect Info.
  4. Copy the password and paste it in the setup assistant. Click Connect.
Step 1 of the Legcast setup assistant: connect to OBS with the WebSocket password
Step 1 of the setup assistant.

Legcast then finds its own files on your computer. If it can't, the assistant asks you to point to the overlay folder.

3Build your scene

Choose where you stream and Legcast builds the scene in OBS for you:

Streaming with two cameras, one on the board and one on you? Tick the two-camera option. No second webcam? Use your phone, see Extras.

Then pick a style. Basic has the Legcast theme; Premium and Pro have all four themes and your own colours.

Choosing a theme, your DartCounter name and the on-screen language in the setup assistant
Pick a theme, your DartCounter name and the on-screen language.

Fill in your player name exactly as it appears in DartCounter. That's how Legcast knows when you are throwing and when your opponent is.

4Play a match

Open DartCounter in Chrome, turn on your camera there and start a match. Legcast takes it from the first dart: scoreboard, camera switching, zoom, replays and cards all run by themselves.

The last step of the setup assistant with a button to play a test match
Want to see it first? Play the test match from the last step or the Legcast icon.

Playing online? Your opponent's camera can show up in your stream. Ask them first if that's fine; you can switch it off in the settings.

5Add your licence key

When your trial ends, choose a plan on the pricing page. After paying you get an email from our payment provider Polar with a link to your customer portal. Your key is there and starts with LEGCAST-.

Click the Legcast icon in Chrome, or open Settings → Licence, paste the key and click Activate.

The licence section in the Legcast settings with a field for the key and an Activate button

One key works on two computers. Moving to a new PC? Disconnect the key on the old one first, or manage your devices in the Polar customer portal.

6Extras

Auto-zoom. With a fixed camera on your board, Legcast zooms in on the treble and on your finishing double. Set it up once under Settings → Auto-zoom: take a snapshot and click four points on the board.

Your phone as a camera. Under Settings → Cameras, choose Phone via QR code and scan the code with your phone. No app needed, and your phone and PC don't have to be on the same network.

Clips. Pro saves a clip of every 180, big finish and won leg, straight from OBS in the same quality as your stream. You find them in the OBS recordings folder.

Now playing. Premium and Pro can show the current Spotify song for a few seconds. Switch it on under Settings → Now playing.

Language. The extension and everything on screen are available in English, German and Dutch. Pick the language at the top of the settings.

7Something not working?

Still stuck? Send us a message and we'll help you out.