Hey Zach,
I was able to use your screenshot from above and some other logic I've been working on to get a successful Power Play logic dropdown for our hockey scorebug here at UST.
I've broken up my logic into 4 tabs: Team, Text, Color, and Animation (attached screenshots)
Most of the logic is checking for active timers like yours is; however, I've formatted the clock data I'm getting from Dashboard or Daktronics to give XPN a better number value to read by removing the :
The scene for the Powerplay is separate from our scorebug, but just needs to be taken online. When ALL timers are cleared, the dropdown will take itself offline OR if there is remaining clock data the scorebug will animate the dropdown offline before animating off.
I've attached screenshots and a video showing the dropdown in action.
For your timer delay, I'd think you could just use the Add block, but once your timer reaches 0, obviously the add will continuously show "4".
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Casey Eakins
Sr. Media Production Systems Technician
University of St. Thomas
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-23-2026 09:55
From: Zach Persechini
Subject: Lacrosse/Hockey Scorebug Recommendations
Additionally, would you know of any way that I could delay the clock and score data from daktronics to match a four second video delay?
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Zach Persechini
Manager
Emerson College
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-13-2026 08:49
From: Zach Persechini
Subject: Lacrosse/Hockey Scorebug Recommendations
It was originally the three datalinq objects on the right that it was selecting from but I tested using a text object with the first penalty time which is why that one is a text object and the other ones are datalinq blocks. The selectors just don't seem to recognize time as a string or a value
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Zach Persechini
Manager
Emerson College
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-11-2026 09:55
From: Simon Redmile
Subject: Lacrosse/Hockey Scorebug Recommendations
Can you show me your visual logic as a screen shot?
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Simon Redmile
Senior Graphic Programmer & Designer
Ross Video
Bristol United Kingdom
Original Message:
Sent: 03-11-2026 08:34
From: Zach Persechini
Subject: Lacrosse/Hockey Scorebug Recommendations
I think I have it backwards. I am trying to use VL to do a few things;
- see if there are any penalty times, if there are one say man up, if there are two say two men up, if there are none, say nothing.
- if there are two clocks, show the clock with the least amount of time.
When I add the clocks in VL either as a datalinq block or as a text object, the selectors either don't see any values or they don't see the value as a number. I tried using some of the timer blocks but they don't seem to see the info as time either. Any recommendations or am I as far as VL will take me?
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Zach Persechini
Manager
Emerson College
Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2026 08:35
From: Simon Redmile
Subject: Lacrosse/Hockey Scorebug Recommendations
Do the datalinq into a text object rather than using a VL block and then take the text property from the text object, that will be a string.
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Simon Redmile
Senior Graphic Programmer & Designer
Ross Video
Bristol United Kingdom
Original Message:
Sent: 03-10-2026 08:25
From: Zach Persechini
Subject: Lacrosse/Hockey Scorebug Recommendations
Thank you for the information Simon!
I am working on building out the clock logic now but have been running into some issues. It seems like visual logic does not like passing timer data from daktronics through. It's in a weird space where its not quite a string but not quite a number either. Do you know of any solutions for how to convert the clock from daktronics into a value using visual logic?
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Zach Persechini
Manager
Emerson College
Original Message:
Sent: 03-07-2026 11:38
From: Simon Redmile
Subject: Lacrosse/Hockey Scorebug Recommendations
Hey I have seen both solutions.
If you want to press a button then probably better that its its own scene.
If you want it to appear automatically its petty if its in the already online scene.
Regarding terminology, I am actually not sure if its set or personal preference, you may need to check with the league on that.
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Simon Redmile
Senior Graphic Programmer & Designer
Ross Video
Bristol United Kingdom