Panel images and Caption Bar
Everything you upload from your admin panel's Live tab — the Panel B/C images shown during a live session, and the Caption Bar gallery.
Quick answer
From Admin Panel → Live, upload Panel images to fill Panel B and Panel C during a live session, and Caption Bar images for the display's caption bar. Images are automatically resized and compressed on upload — you don't need to prepare them yourself first.
Main, Panel B, and Panel C
Your Live tab shows a small diagram of the display: Main is the big area, where your slides, khutbah, or camera feed show — there's no image upload for it here. Panel B and Panel C are the two side slots the upload fields below actually control:
- Panel B — on the Khutbah tab, a toggle on /present switches this between the timetable and your uploaded image, any time during a live session. On the Lecture tab there's no toggle: Panel B shows the timetable normally, and automatically switches to the live camera feed the instant Camera Capture is actually running — no image option there.
- Panel C — shown in the bottom third whenever any live session is active, in place of the reflection feed.
Uploading a panel image
1280×720 is the recommended size. jpg and png files are automatically resized and compressed on upload, landing under 2MB — you can upload a larger original and Awqōt will handle it. GIFs are checked against the same 2MB cap but not resized, so the animation stays intact; if a GIF is over 2MB, reduce it yourself before uploading. PNG and GIF both keep transparency; a jpg will show a solid background wherever the image doesn't cover.
Caption Bar gallery
Below Panel images, the Caption Bar section holds your gallery of title-card images — the ones staff can switch the caption bar to during a live session, layered on top of the extracted khutbah text (both show together now — see What the congregation sees). Upload as many as you need, and reorder them with the up/down arrows next to each one; the order here is the order they appear in on /present's selection grid.
You can't delete an image that's currently live on the display — end the session or switch to a different overlay first, then delete it.
See What the congregation sees for how this looks on the display, and Running a Friday khutbah with Live Session for how staff switch to it and pick an image from /present.
Live Session settings
The same tab also has your Live Session inactivity timeout — how long /present can sit open with a session active and nobody advancing anything before the display reverts to normal rotation on its own. Signing out of /present always ends the session immediately, regardless of this setting.
Common questions
Do I need to resize my images before uploading?
No — jpg and png panel images are resized and compressed automatically. GIFs are only size-checked, not resized, so you may need to shrink a large GIF yourself before uploading.
What's the difference between Panel images and Caption Bar?
Panel images (Panel B and Panel C) fill slots beside your main display. Caption Bar is a separate gallery for the strip across the bottom of the display, layered over the khutbah text — see What the congregation sees.
Still stuck?
The Awqōt team is happy to help with panel images and Caption Bar.