pretalx-broadcast-tools 2026.2.0

Some tools which can be used for supporting a broadcasting software.

This is a plugin for pretalx.

This adds the following features to your pretalx instance:

• Lower Thirds (“Bauchbinden”) for using with something like OBS

• a “room info” screen, if you want to show information about the currently running talk outside the room

• a pdf export containing information about a talk, so video helpers can have easy access to the needed information

Screenshots

The first two screenshots show the talk “Compatible static software” by “Stephanie Fisher”, which was generated by the create_test_event command. The event color is #EA652D, a bright orange. The track color is #857EB0, a light purple. The last screenshot shows “Multi-layered encompassing paradigm” by “Michael Rodriguez”.

Development setup

1. Make sure that you have a working pretalx development setup.

2. Clone this repository, eg to local/pretalx-plugin-lower-thirds.

3. Activate the virtual environment you use for pretalx development.

4. Execute python -m pip install -e . within this directory to register this application with pretalx’s plugin registry.

5. Execute make within this directory to compile translations.

6. Restart your local pretalx server. You can now use the plugin from this repository for your events by enabling it in the ‘plugins’ tab in the settings.

Development commands

This plugin uses just as a task runner and uv for dependency management. Run just with no arguments to list every available command. The most useful ones are:

just fmt

Auto-format and lint the code.

just test

Run the full test suite with pytest.

Installing pretalx

The tests need pretalx installed in the environment. just test handles this for you: if pretalx cannot be imported, it installs the latest version from git before running the test suite.

If you already have a development version of pretalx around (for example if you want to test your changes against a specific commit or branch of pretalx), you can also install pretalx up front yourself:

just install-pretalx-local /path/to/pretalx

Install pretalx from a local checkout as an editable install.

just install-pretalx

Install the latest pretalx from git (runs before tests if no pretalx is installed).

License

Copyright 2021-2023 Franziska ‘kunsi’ Kunsmann

Released under the terms of the Apache License 2.0