How to Add Live Scores to Your Boxcast Stream

Boxcast is one of the easiest platforms for high school sports streaming — and ScoreBird's native Boxcast integration is the most seamless way to add live score overlays to your broadcasts. There's no browser source to configure, no overlay URL to manage. ScoreBird connects directly to your Boxcast stream.

Here's how to set it up.

Prerequisites

• A NeST device installed and connected to your scoreboard controller
• An active Boxcast account
• A ScoreBird subscription

If you don't have NeST installed yet, that's the first step — contact ScoreBird to get started. Installation takes under 30 minutes.

Step 1: Connect ScoreBird to Your Boxcast Account

Log into your ScoreBird dashboard and navigate to Integrations. Select Boxcast from the list of available integrations.

You'll be prompted to authorize ScoreBird's access to your Boxcast account. Follow the OAuth flow — this is a standard "connect your account" process that takes about 60 seconds. You only do this once.

Once connected, ScoreBird can see your Boxcast broadcasts and inject scoring data into them.

Step 2: Configure Your Boxcast Broadcast

In your Boxcast account, create or open the broadcast for your upcoming game (or your next scheduled event). ScoreBird will pull a list of your scheduled broadcasts from Boxcast so you can select which one should have live scoring enabled.

In your ScoreBird dashboard, select the broadcast and choose the sport. ScoreBird will apply the appropriate overlay template for that sport — basketball uses the basketball overlay with shot clock and team fouls, football shows down and distance, and so on.

Step 3: Confirm NeST Is Live

Before your game starts, confirm that your NeST device is connected and transmitting data. In the ScoreBird dashboard, the NeST status indicator should show Connected alongside a live data preview showing current scoreboard values.

If NeST isn't showing connected, check:

• Is NeST powered on?
• Is it connected to your school's Wi-Fi or Ethernet?
• Is the data cable connected between NeST and your scoreboard controller?

ScoreBird's 24/7 support team can walk you through any NeST connectivity issue in real time.

Step 4: Go Live on Boxcast

Start your Boxcast broadcast as you normally would. From this point forward, ScoreBird handles the score overlay automatically.

The overlay appears in your Boxcast stream — not in your local preview window, but in the actual stream that viewers see. As your scoreboard updates, NeST sends the data to ScoreBird, and the overlay in your Boxcast stream updates immediately.

Viewers on Boxcast see the live score throughout your broadcast. You don't need to touch anything.

What the Integration Looks Like

The Boxcast integration embeds the ScoreBird overlay directly into your stream, below your video feed in the lower-third position. The overlay design matches Boxcast's visual standards and works at any streaming resolution.

Unlike the OBS browser source method, there's no separate source layer — the overlay is composited server-side by the Boxcast platform based on ScoreBird's real-time data feed. This means the overlay appears even if your local production software doesn't support browser sources.

Between-Game Management

If you're running multiple games in one night (JV then varsity, or multiple sports), ScoreBird's overlay resets automatically between events. When one broadcast ends and the next begins, the overlay initializes fresh for the new game.

For back-to-back games on the same night, you'll configure each Boxcast broadcast separately in ScoreBird — one for JV, one for varsity. Each broadcast gets its own overlay configuration linked to the same NeST device (NeST transmits data continuously; ScoreBird applies it to whichever broadcast is currently active).

Automatic Score Reporting

Boxcast integration doesn't affect ScoreBird's automatic score reporting to scheduling platforms. At game end, NeST's final score data is submitted to Rank One Sport, DragonFly, or your other connected platforms — independently of your Boxcast broadcast.

Troubleshooting

Overlay isn't appearing in the Boxcast stream:

• Confirm the ScoreBird-Boxcast integration is still authorized in your ScoreBird dashboard
• Confirm the correct Boxcast broadcast is selected in ScoreBird
• Confirm NeST shows "Connected" in your dashboard

Overlay data is delayed or lagging:

• Check your school's network upload speed. For reliable overlay performance, a minimum of 5 Mbps upload is recommended.
• If NeST is on Wi-Fi, consider switching to a wired Ethernet connection for more reliable data transmission.

Wrong sport showing on the overlay:

• In your ScoreBird dashboard, confirm the sport selected for the broadcast matches the game being played. A basketball overlay on a volleyball game won't show the right fields.

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The Boxcast integration is the simplest path to live scoring on your school's broadcasts. Once it's configured, every Boxcast broadcast associated with ScoreBird gets a live score overlay automatically — you set it up once and it works throughout the season.