Watch Companion & Push-to-Talk
Run the floor from your wrist, and talk without a walkie-talkie.
Run the floor from your wrist and talk to your team without a walkie-talkie. Acknowledge a page, hold to talk on your venue's channel, and control the room, all without pulling out an iPad or hunting for a radio.
Why it matters
Pager, walkie-talkie, and venue controls, right on your wrist.
This replaces the walkie-talkie and the wrist pager with an Apple Watch app and built-in voice tied to your team's roles and the live event. Acknowledge a page, hold to talk, and control the room from your wrist. Almost no hospitality platform ships a real watch app like this, with on-wrist paging, voice, and manager controls.
Who it's for
Built for operations managers and floor supervisors who need fast, hands-free communication during a live shift. These are the people who'd otherwise carry a walkie-talkie and a pager and still reach for an iPad to skip a track. They want comms tied to roles and locations, not an open channel anyone can hop on.
Connects with
01
A real Apple Watch app, not a notification mirror
A real Apple Watch app, not just a buzz on your wrist. Alerts, reminders, pages, and approvals for tonight's event land right there, and you can acknowledge a page or approve an action with one tap. Anything that needs more hands off to your iPhone instantly, and a watch-face complication keeps the active event and unread pages in view.
Tonight's pages, alerts, and approvals on your wrist
One-tap acknowledge and approve, mid-stride
Active event and unread pages on your watch face
02
Push-to-talk built for your team, not a toy radio
Talk to your team over a private channel built for your venue, not an open frequency the whole building can hear. Join a named channel, hold to talk, and see who's speaking. Because channels follow your roles and your location, the right people are always on the right one. Voice on iPhone and iPad is here today; the watch can join and talk, with its audio still in hardware testing.
A private venue channel, not an open radio
Hold to talk and see who's speaking
The right people on the right channel, automatically
Watch Controls tab with manager actions for music and scenes
A watch controls screen showing the music now playing, with manager actions to pause, skip, and fire scene presets like Opening Scene and Last Call Lights.
Watch app > Controls tab (manager role required)
03
Knows where the operator is, works when the internet does not
The watch knows which venue you're standing in and keeps working even when the internet doesn't. GPS picks your location, and if two venues are close, it simply asks. Voice stays on your venue's local network, so urgent comms don't ride on an internet round-trip.
Knows which venue you're in, automatically
Asks rather than guesses when venues are close
Comms that keep working when the internet stutters
Watch-face complication
A watch-face complication showing tonight's event, doors in twelve minutes, and unread pages at a glance.
Watch face editor > BirdBrain Status complication
04
Manager controls on the wrist, gated by permission
Managers get a fifth tab that puts the room on their wrist. Pause or skip the music, fire a scene preset, trigger Smart Venue actions, all without an iPad. The tab only shows up for people who already hold those permissions, so wrist control respects the same access rules as everywhere else.
Music, scenes, and Smart Venue, on your wrist
Only managers who already have the rights see it
Same permissions you already trust on the iPad
Watch Location tab with multi-location picker and GPS distance
A watch location screen showing the venue you're at, in range and active, with a far-off second location listed below.
Watch app > Location tab
Inside the module
Built for the way the floor actually runs
Every capability below is live in BirdBrain today, available at each location with role-based access.
Wrist pager with acknowledge
Pages for tonight's event land on your wrist with one-tap acknowledge, so a floor lead can confirm a callout without breaking stride.
Hold-to-talk channels
Join a private venue voice channel and hold to talk, with open or one-at-a-time floor modes to fit how your team works.
GPS location auto-select
GPS picks the right venue for you automatically, and asks which one when two are close by.
Manager controls, gated
A manager-only tab puts music, scene presets, and Smart Venue actions on the wrist for the people who already hold those rights.
Incoming-call wakeup
Your watch lights up when a teammate opens a channel, so you can be pulled into the conversation mid-event.
Works on the venue LAN
Voice runs on your venue's local network instead of an internet round-trip, so urgent comms stay snappy.
Product tour
See it in BirdBrain
Captured from the Eagle Enterprises demo workspace.
PTT Diagnostics screen on iPhone
A diagnostics screen confirming the channel is connected and transmit-ready over the venue network, for quick troubleshooting.
iPad/iPhone app > Settings sidebar > PTT Diagnostics
PTT Diagnostics screen on iPhone
A diagnostics screen confirming the channel is connected and transmit-ready over the venue network, for quick troubleshooting.
Built for real venues
Not a roadmap. Live in real venues today.
A real Apple Watch app: pages, alerts, approvals, voice, and manager controls
Stays current on its own, without leaning on the phone for every refresh
A private venue channel, not an open frequency anyone can join
Voice runs on your venue's local network, not an internet round-trip
GPS picks the right venue and asks when two are close by
Why it beats the point tools
Most hospitality stacks treat the wrist as a place to mirror notifications, and treat staff voice as a separate purchase: a box of consumer walkie-talkies or a third-party subscription that knows nothing about who works where. BirdBrain ships a real Apple Watch app for paging, approvals, and venue controls, paired with voice tied to the same roles and live event as everything else. Voice runs on a private channel on your venue's local network, so urgent comms don't ride an internet round-trip or an open frequency. Voice on iPhone and iPad is here today, and the watch's audio is still in hardware testing.
Where it fits your plan
This fits Pro and Enterprise. The watch app and voice rely on roles, multi-location support, and venue control integrations that are Pro-level and up, and standing up venue voice suits growing and multi-location teams. It shows up inside a Pro rollout and as part of a coordinated Enterprise deployment. It isn’t part of Free or Starter.
One operating record
What Watch Companion & Push-to-Talk works with
These modules share the same record, so context follows the work instead of being re-entered.
See Watch Companion & Push-to-Talk running on your venue
Walk through Watch Companion & Push-to-Talk with the rest of the BirdBrain platform, mapped to how your team actually operates — from one location to a multi-venue group.