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The Manual

How To Run This Glorious Mess

A short guide for the chronically thirsty and statistically curious.

01

The Two-Device Setup 📺📱

This scoreboard is built for two screens working as one. Treat them like a pub TV and the bloke behind the bar with the pen — except neither of them spills lager on you.

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The Big Screen
TV / Monitor

Open https://dpl.power-nas.info and tap TV Display. This is the showpiece — names, scores, dart-by-dart drama, AVG, 180s, and the British robot insulting your aim in real time.

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The Brain
Phone / Tablet

Open the same URL on a phone or tablet and tap Score Entry. You poke the numbers in here — the TV updates instantly. Pass it round, hide it from cheaters, take it to the bog. Whatever.

Pro tip: Both devices must be on the same Wi-Fi. If the TV says “Waiting for match…” forever, you’re probably on the guest network. Or you forgot to start a tournament. Or it’s Tuesday.
02

Adding Players

Hit + Add 2 More Players until the right number of empty boxes appear. Players are added in pairs because darts is a 1v1 affair and odd numbers make brackets cry.

  • Minimum: 4 players (a respectable foursome)
  • Maximum: 16 players (mild chaos, recommended)
  • Leave a box blank and it’ll get a stock name like “Player 7”. Lazy, but allowed.
  • Past players hover at the bottom — tap a face-card to drop them straight into the next free slot.
03

Removing Players

Someone bailed? Hit − Remove 2 Players. It chops the last two input boxes off the list. Same pairs-only rule applies — see point 02’s note about odd numbers and crying brackets.

  • Removes from the bottom of the list. Move names around first if it matters.
  • Won’t go below 4. We have standards.
  • Deleting a player card from history (the X button) wipes their all-time stats. The remove button here does not. Different beasts.
04

Manual Matchup Selection 🎛️

Don’t fancy the random draw? Flick the Manual matchup selection toggle on the setup screen before hitting start. Instead of the app pairing everyone off blind, you decide who throws at who — every round, all the way to the final.

Here’s how the cheating-free fix-it works:

  • Toggle on, then hit Pick Matchups & Start → (the button quietly renames itself so you know it’s armed).
  • You’ll land on the Matchup Picker for Round 1. The app lays out the proposed pairings.
  • Tap a player to select them — every other player lights up as a swap target.
  • Tap another player to swap their names. Repeat until the bracket looks how you want.
  • Tap the same name twice to deselect if you change your mind. No commitment issues here.
  • Hit Start Round 1 → when you’re happy. Matches kick off as normal.
  • Every subsequent round opens the picker again with the winners — rearrange the semis and final to taste.

Great for: seeding, grudge matches, keeping the ringer away from the rookie until the final, or just running the bracket your way.

05

Match Length & Setup Extras 🎚️

  • Match Length — Best of 1, 3, 5 or 7 legs per match. Bo1 for speed darts, Bo7 for grudges. First to more than half wins the match (Bo3 = first to 2, and so on).
  • Manual matchup selection — covered gloriously in point 04.
  • Animate — the little toggle above the player cards turns the bouncy card physics on or off. Off = calm. On = correct.
  • The buttons remember your last choice per device — and the league-wide defaults for all of this live on the ⚙ Settings page (point 08).
06

The Rules 🎯

Straight-in, straight-out 501 by default — but the start score and finish rule are yours to change in ⚙ Settings.

501

Start at 501 (or 301)

Every player begins each leg with the league’s starting score — 501 by default, 301 if you’ve set it in Settings. No double to start. Just walk to the oche and throw.

3

Three darts a turn

Subtract whatever you hit from your remaining score. The tablet keeps the running total so you can pretend you’re good at mental arithmetic.

0

First to zero wins

Straight out (default): hit exactly 0 with anything and the leg is yours. Bullseye, single 1, doesn’t matter. Double out (Settings → Finish rule): the dart that lands on zero must be a double — D1 to D20 or the bull (D25). Proper pub rules.

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Busting

Straight out: only dropping below zero busts you. Double out: going below zero, landing on exactly 1 (no double finishes from 1), or hitting zero with a non-double all bust. Either way the score rewinds to the start of the turn and the other player smirks.

07

While You’re Playing 🍺

  • Single / Double / Treble — pick the ring before you tap the number. The tablet won’t guess.
  • Miss (0) — for the proud throw that hit drywall.
  • Outer Bull (25) and D-Bull (50) — their own dedicated buttons.
  • Undo — fat-fingered a 9 instead of a 19? One tap reverses the last dart, even after the auto-submit timer fires.
  • Bust — manual safety net if you dropped below zero. The app usually catches this for you.
  • Checkout hints appear when your remaining score has a clean finish — and they follow your finish rule, so on double-out they always end in a double.
  • The announcer calls scores, checkouts and the occasional roast. Which voice, how spicy, and how bad a round has to be before it gets personal — all in ⚙ Settings.
08

The Settings Page ⚙️

Tap ⚙ Settings in the nav. Everything saves the instant you touch it (watch for the green “Saved ✓”) and applies league-wide — the TV updates live.

  • 🎙 Trash Talk & Voice — turn the announcer’s pot-stirring on or off, switch the optional Mature mode (18+) on or off, set how bad a 3-dart round must be to earn a roast, and pick from five announcer voices. The ▶ Test button plays a sample so you can audition them.
  • 🎯 Game Defaults — starting score (501/301), finish rule (straight or double out), default match length, and whether manual matchups come pre-ticked. Applies to the next match, never one already on the board.
  • 🖥 Display & Branding — rename your league (it shows above the nav on every screen), set the card-animation default, and hide checkout hints from the TV if you think finishes should stay secret. Sound output lets you mute the announcer on scoring devices (TV only) so two devices don't talk over each other — the device that last opened the TV Display view is the one that speaks.
  • 👥 Players — add, rename and delete players with their career stats beside each name. Renames carry stats and match history across; deleting wipes them (you get a warning).
  • 🔑 Account — who’s signed in, your plan, and the log-out button.
09

Free vs Full Access 💳

Every league lives in its own account — sign up, log in, and everything you see (players, stats, brackets, even the announcer) is yours alone. Nobody else’s league can see or hear a thing of yours.

  • Free plan — the full scorer with up to 6 player names at a time (delete one to free a slot), settings in view-only mode, and a small ad banner at the bottom of each page.
  • ⭐ Full Access — unlimited players with saved stats, no ads anywhere, the optional Mature mode (18+), and every setting unlocked.
  • Upgrading takes about ten seconds: hit any ⭐ Upgrade button (settings banner or the ad bar), confirm in the checkout, and the padlocks and ads vanish on the spot.
10

Right. Off You Go. 🍻

That’s the lot. Add names, draw the bracket, point the TV at the wall, hand the tablet to the least-drunk person, and let the British robot do the trash talk for you.

← Back to Setup
League Settings
Saved ✓

🎙 Trash Talk & Voice

Optional stronger language for adults (18+), off by default. You choose where it plays — keep it away from minors and anyone who hasn't opted in. See the Acceptable Use Policy.

Roast rounds under 25
Announcer voice

🎯 Game Defaults

Starting score
Finish rule
Match length

Defaults apply to the next match — a game already on the board keeps the rules it started with.

🖥 Display & Branding

League name
Sound output

TV only mutes the announcer on scoring devices so the TV and tablet don't talk over each other. The device that last opened the TV Display view counts as the TV.

👥 Players

🔑 Account

Signed in as
Plan
Two-factor auth
Round 1 Matchups
Tap two players to swap them
Tap any player to select, then tap another to swap