Live Basketing
Real-time view of pigeons being basketed at the club, fed by the BENZING Live Clubsystem - how to set it up, what the screen shows, and how the auto-update works.
Good to know before you start
- Only arrivals coming from a BENZING Live Clubsystem registered to your organisation feed this page. Other clock systems do not stream basketing in real time.
- You never have to refresh the page. Fancier cards and the pigeon list update on their own as the basketing happens.
- The page only shows basketings from the last 3 hours. Once a basketing is older than that it stops appearing on its own, so the screen is self-cleaning between basketing days - you do not have to do anything between sessions.
What Live Basketing is
Live Basketing is a real-time view of the basketing session at the club. As fanciers clock pigeons in on the BENZING Live Clubsystem, every pigeon shows up on this page within a second or two - no page refresh needed.
Live Basketing is the public-facing screen that the club typically projects on a wall or shows on a tablet during a basketing session. It lists every fancier currently basketing and every pigeon they have basketed so far, together with the basketing order, the time and the usual identification (ring, sex, color, prize history).
The information comes straight from the BENZING Live Clubsystem at the club. Whenever a pigeon is basketed, taken back out of the basket, or a fancier finishes basketing, the change shows up on the screen straight away.
It is read-only. Nothing on this page changes the basketing data on the clock - it just visualises what is happening at the club for everyone in the room.
Where to find it
Open the Smart Club dashboard for your organisation. The Live Basketing panel sits on the dashboard and shows a quick summary of how many fanciers are currently basketing and how many pigeons have been basketed so far. Click the button on that panel to open the full Live Basketing page.
On the basketing night, the simplest workflow is to open the page once on the room screen and leave it open - everything that follows is automatic.
Before you can use it
Three things have to be in place. The first one is the only setup step that requires a one-time action; the other two follow automatically.
A registered BENZING Live Clubsystem
The club must have at least one BENZING Live Clubsystem registered against the organisation in MyPigeons. Without a registered device the page is empty - the controller has nothing to query against.
An active Clubsystem subscription
The Clubsystem needs an active BENZING Live Clubsystem subscription so that BENZING streams the basketing data to our webhook. The subscription status, including the expiry date and a renewal link, is shown next to the device in Club Settings.
At least one fancier basketing
The page lists races that started in the last 3 hours. Outside of an actual basketing session the screen will be empty. That is normal - it is not a permanent leaderboard.
Register a BENZING Live Clubsystem in your organisation
Registration is a one-time setup done by an organisation administrator. The clubsystem itself walks you through finding the ID; on the MyPigeons side you only paste it into the registration modal.
Open Club Settings
On the Smart Club dashboard, open Club Settings. The first card in the top-left corner is Clubsystem management and lists every device already registered against your organisation.
Click "Add Clubsystem"
Use the primary button at the top of the Clubsystem card. A modal opens with a 5-step pictorial tutorial that mirrors the screens on the BENZING device, so the person at the club desk can follow along.
Find the Live Clubsystem ID on the device
On the BENZING Live Clubsystem: power it up, tap the BENZING logo in the bottom-left corner, open the System tab, make sure the device is online (Wi-Fi or mobile network), then go to Settings → BENZING Live ClubSystem Subscription. The Live Clubsystem ID is shown there in the format
xxxxxxxx-xxxx.
Enter the ID in MyPigeons
In the modal, type the ID into the Live Clubsystem ID field. The input is masked to
xxxxxxxx-xxxxso you cannot accidentally enter it in the wrong format.
Save and wait for the device to connect
After saving, the device card shows "Waiting for connection" with a spinner. As soon as the BENZING Live Clubsystem is online and recognises the pairing, the spinner disappears and the device is ready to use - this usually takes a few seconds.
Verify subscription status
Once connected, the device card shows the BENZING Live Clubsystem subscription status with the expiry date. If the subscription is missing or expired, the card surfaces a Buy or Renew link straight to the BENZING store with the serial number pre-filled. Without an active subscription the device cannot push basketing data, even when paired.
You can register more than one BENZING Live Clubsystem against the same organisation - large clubs often run two or three in parallel. The Live Basketing page merges arrivals from all of them, and the Clubsystem filter at the top lets you narrow the view to a single device.
What the screen shows
The page is split into three pieces: a counter card, a column of fancier cards, and the live pigeon list. On mobile the layout reflows so the list comes first.
Counter card
Two large numbers in animated rings: the count of fanciers currently registered for this session and the running total of pigeons basketed across the whole club. The pigeon counter pulses for a moment whenever a new pigeon comes in, so spectators get visual feedback even from across the room.
Fancier cards
One card per fancier with an active basketing race in the 3-hour window. Each card shows the fancier photo, the race name, the running pigeon count, and a status badge - basketing while the session is open and finished once the basketing has been closed on the clock.
Cards are sorted with unfinished fanciers on top, ordered by their start time (most recently started first). When a fancier finishes, their card slides to the bottom of the list - the eye is always drawn to the people still actively basketing.
Pigeon list
Each row in the list represents one basketed pigeon: the basketing order at the club, the ring number, a sex icon (male / female / unknown), the color, the owner's name, plus this season and lifetime prize counts so the audience immediately knows whether the pigeon is a regular winner.
Each pigeon also carries up to three badges - the basketing time stamp, a yellow removed badge with the timestamp if the pigeon was taken back out of the basket, and a blue nominated badge for nominated entries. The list is ordered with the most recently basketed pigeon at the top, so new entries appear without scrolling.
Filters
A filter panel collapses behind a small gear button so it does not distract from the projection view. When opened, you can narrow the page down by Clubsystem, fancier name, ring country code, breeding year, organisation code, ring number and color. Filters are applied to the pigeon list only - the fancier cards and the counters always reflect the full session.
When it starts and how long it runs
A fancier appears on the screen the moment they sign in at the BENZING Live Clubsystem and start basketing. A new card pops up for them on its own - nobody at MyPigeons has to do anything.
Each basketing stays on the screen for 3 hours from the moment it started. After that it disappears on its own, so the page is empty and ready by the time the next basketing night begins.
When a fancier finishes basketing on the clock, their card switches from basketing to finished and slides down to the bottom of the list. They stay on the screen until the 3-hour window runs out, so the room can still see who has already finished and how many pigeons each fancier basketed.
Real-time updates without refreshing
Once the page is open, you can leave it alone. New fanciers, new pigeons, removals and finished sessions all appear on the screen on their own - there is no need to reload the page or click anything to see the latest state.
The same automatic update applies to the small Live Basketing panel on the Smart Club dashboard - the counter and the top-three fancier strip move in step with the full Live Basketing page.
Reset the live basketing session (internal tool)
Club Settings has a Reset Live Basketing tile under the admin tools card. It is an internal helper - mostly used for demos and for the rare case when a clock did not cleanly close a basketing session - and is not part of the day-to-day flow. The page is self-cleaning after 3 hours, so under normal use you never need to press it.
What it does: every basketing that is still open for the organisation is marked as finished. Nothing gets deleted - the basketed pigeons stay on the record exactly as they were.
What it does not do: the reset does not clear the Live Basketing screen. Basketings still appear there until the 3-hour window runs out - they just show as finished instead of basketing. A Live Basketing page that is already open (for example the projector at the club) will not notice the reset until someone reloads it.
Who can see Live Basketing
The Live Basketing page is public. Anyone with the link can open it - no MyPigeons account, no Smart Club membership, no admin role is required to view it. The page and the auto-update both work without logging in, which is why a club can simply open it on the room screen at the start of a basketing night and walk away.
Registering or unlinking a Clubsystem, and using the internal reset action, are administrator-only - those controls live in Club Settings, which is gated by the usual Smart Club administrator permissions.
