This Data Connector is not included in the Graphics license and requires payment of an additional licensing fee. If you need access please contact your designated Customer Success Manager.
Sportzcast uses on-premise hardware (Scorehub or Scorelink) that needs to be connected to the venue scoreboard system. The scoreboard data is then sent through sportzcast cloud server and then distrubited in real time to Flowics.
Requirements
- Having the email where you have the bot assigned. This will be requiered as username in Flowics.
- Token, should be the password of the email assigned to your bot by Sportzcast.
Setting up Data Connectors
Learn how to do it here
Info
When setting up this data connector you will be asked for a username and password.
Username: the email address your bot was assigned
Password: the password of the email assigned to your bot by Sportzcast
Once the account information is added, you must add the sport in the connector, currently the available sports are:
- Baseball.
- Soccer.
- Lacrosse.
- Tennis.
Adding the Data Connector to the Graphics Editor
First, you need to add a Data Connector to your tree (1) and then click on Connect (2).
From the Data Connectors panel choose Sportzcast (if it is not listed contact your designated Customer Success Manager).
(3) Select Sportzcast account. (4) Choose the bot that will provide us with the information from the list of bots.
After selecting your bot go to the External Connector >> (5) View Source >> (6) Select Event Stream option so you can see the logs in order to confirm the data is coming in.
Once the dataset is configured you can proceed to create your graphic.