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How Events Start And End ​

Every event moves through the same stages, and some of the steps happen automatically. This page is the full picture: what starts an event, what ends it, what Slipmat does on its own, and how to get an event back if it ended before you were finished.

Your stream and your event are two different things ​

Slipmat tracks two separate things:

  • Your stream — whether your streaming software is connected to Slipmat right now.
  • Your event — which stage the event is in.

For a scheduled event these are not the same switch: connecting your streaming software does not start the event, and disconnecting it does not end it. You do both yourself. Ad hoc events are the exception — those are started and ended by the stream.

The stages of an event ​

  • Scheduled — announced and on the calendar, not started.
  • Warmup — doors open. Chat is live, the video hasn't started. Begins 30 minutes before the start time.
  • Live — you're on the air.
  • Ended — the event is over, its chat stays open for a 30-minute cooldown.
  • Archived — final statistics are ready and the event chat closes.
  • Cancelled — the event never happened.

Both warmup and live count as live everywhere else on Slipmat: your artist page, the listings, and your live address all treat an event in warmup as live.

One event at a time

You can only have one event in warmup or live at any moment. If another event tries to start while one is already live, it is turned down and stays where it is. Soundchecks don't count.

A scheduled event, step by step ​

  1. 30 minutes before the start time. Slipmat moves the event to warmup and opens its chat, so listeners can gather.
  2. You connect your streaming software. Nothing goes on the air yet.
  3. You press Start. The event goes live, its start time is recorded, and Slipmat begins collecting the event's statistics.
  4. You press End. The event moves to ended, any open song requests are closed, and the event's statistics are calculated.
  5. 30 minutes after that. The event is archived and its chat closes. If you have set a redirect to a next event, your audience is sent there when you press End instead of waiting through the cooldown.

Nothing ends a scheduled event but you ​

Always end your event yourself

A scheduled event stays live until you end it. Stopping your streaming software or losing your connection does not end it.

There is one safety net: if your stream stays disconnected for 30 minutes while a scheduled event is live, Slipmat ends the event for you. It exists so a forgotten event doesn't stay live indefinitely.

What Slipmat does automatically ​

  • Moves a scheduled event to warmup 30 minutes before its start time.
  • Cancels a scheduled event that never started, one hour after its start time has passed. A resumed event is left alone.
  • Starts an ad hoc event about a minute after your stream connects, when you have no scheduled event starting within the next 60 minutes.
  • Ends an ad hoc event about two minutes after your stream disconnects. Reconnect within that window and the event continues.
  • Ends a live scheduled event whose stream has been disconnected for 30 minutes.
  • Archives an ended event 30 minutes after it ended, which is when its chat closes.
  • Ends a soundcheck that has had no stream connected for 15 minutes.

Each of these is written to your activity log, listed as done by System.

If your stream drops during a live event ​

The event stays live. Reconnect your streaming software and the stream continues — you don't need to touch the event itself. If the stream stays disconnected for 30 minutes, Slipmat ends the event.

Resuming an event that ended too early ​

For 30 minutes after it ends, a scheduled event can be resumed. The action is on your stream monitor and on the event's own page in your Artist Dashboard, and it disappears once the event is archived.

Resuming returns the event to warmup. Reconnect your streaming software if needed, then press Start as usual.

  • The event keeps its page, its address and its chat.
  • Song requests stay closed. Open them again yourself if you want them.
  • The original start time is kept, so the interruption counts as part of the event's length.
  • The event's statistics are calculated again when you end it the second time.

Ad hoc events and soundchecks cannot be resumed. Once the 30 minutes have passed the event is archived, and archiving is final.

Who can resume

Resuming needs the manage events permission, so owners and members can do it. Roadies can't.