Use a numpad or X-Keys with 4-digit codes

ScoreCastr's shortcuts are plain keystrokes. While Listening Mode is on, the dashboard watches for four digits in a row and fires the matching action. A Stream Deck types them for you, but so can a plain USB numpad, an X-Keys pad or any programmable macro keypad. This guide covers how the listener works and how to set up each kind of keypad so codes land every time.

How the listener reads codes

Listening Mode is the ear icon at the top of the Overlay Visibility panel (tooltip: "Toggle keyboard shortcut listener"). It turns red when it's on. It needs the Starter plan, since that panel comes with Starter. Turning it on is covered in Set up a Stream Deck.

Once it's on, here's what the dashboard does with each key you press:

• Only digits count. Letters, Enter, Tab and other keys are ignored by the listener.
• The code fires on the fourth digit. There's no Enter step. Type 1001 and the scorebug toggles the moment you press the last 1.
• The digits must keep coming. Each digit restarts a 1-second timer. If you pause longer than about a second, the digits so far are thrown away and you start again.
• It reads the last four digits. If you type a stray digit first, the listener keeps sliding along until the last four make a real code.
• A code that isn't on the list does nothing. After four digits in the graphics range (1001 to 1099) or the scoring range (2001 to 2899), the listener clears and waits for the next code.

While you type, a small badge on the ear icon shows the digits it has so far. Watch it the first few times: you'll see the digits build up, then clear when the code fires.

Use a numeric keypad

A plain USB or Bluetooth numpad is the cheapest option. You type each code yourself, so it suits someone who keeps a code sheet next to them.

1. Plug in the numpad and press Num Lock so its light is on. With Num Lock off, the keys send arrows, Home and End, which the listener ignores.
2. Click an empty spot on the dashboard so no text box has focus.
3. Turn on Listening Mode.
4. Type a code, for example 1002 to show or hide the scoreboard.

Print the codes you'll use from Graphics and universal codes and Codes by sport, or open the in-app list with the keyboard icon next to the ear.

Use X-Keys or a macro keypad

Programmable pads let one key type all four digits, which is faster and avoids typos.

1. In the pad's software (MacroWorks for X-Keys), pick a key and set it to type the four digits of a code, for example 2113.
2. Don't add Enter, Tab or any modifier key to the macro.
3. If the software lets you set a delay between keystrokes, keep it short. All four digits need to arrive within about a second of each other.
4. Label the key, then test it on the dashboard with Listening Mode on.

It doesn't matter whether the macro types the number row or the numpad digits; both count.

Keep the dashboard in front

Keystrokes go to whichever window has focus. If you click into OBS, a chat app or another browser tab, the digits go there instead. Before you start, click an empty part of the dashboard, and come back to it after using another app.

Two more rules:

• Listening Mode belongs to one tab and resets on reload. After a refresh, turn it on again.
• Text boxes don't block it. With Listening Mode on, typing digits into a field, such as a jersey number, fires codes and puts the digits in the box. Turn Listening Mode off before you type numbers, then back on.

Keep the Scoring tab open for scoring codes

Graphics codes (1001 to 1099) work from any tab, because the Overlay Visibility panel is always in the sidebar. Scoring codes (2001 and up) are handled by the controls on the Scoring tab, so they only work while that tab is open. If you switch to Overlays or Game Actions to change something, switch back to Scoring before pressing scoring codes.

Fix common problems

Nothing happens. Check the ear icon is red, the dashboard window has focus, and Num Lock is on.

Some digits show on the badge, then vanish. You paused too long between digits. Type the code in one go, or shorten the delay in your macro.

A graphic code works but a scoring code doesn't. You're not on the Scoring tab, or the code belongs to a different sport than the match.

Digits show up in a text box. A field had focus. Click an empty spot on the page first, then clear the field.

Checklist

• Starter plan or higher
• Listening Mode on (ear icon red) in the tab you're using
• Num Lock on, or macros set to type four digits with no Enter
• Dashboard window in front, Scoring tab open for scoring codes
• A test code fires before the game