add live now panel with time elapsed

frontend/src/components/IsLivePulse.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+const IsLivePulse = () => {
+    return (
+        <span className={"relative flex h-2 w-2"}>
+            <span
+                className="animate-ping absolute inline-flex h-full w-full rounded-full opacity-75 bg-live-red"
+            ></span>
+            <span className="relative inline-flex rounded-full h-2 w-2 bg-live-red"
+            ></span>
+        </span>
+    );
+}
+
+export default IsLivePulse;

frontend/src/components/video/VideoCard.tsx

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ const VideoCard = ({ id, title, duration, createdAt, onEdit, onDelete, className
     return (
         <Link to={`${playerPath}/${id}`}>
             <div className={clsx("flex flex-col group cursor-pointer", className)}>
-                <div className="relative overflow-hidden rounded-lg">
+                <div className="relative overflow-hidden rounded-lg hover:shadow-xl transition-transform duration-300">
                     <img
                         src={thumbnailAvailable ? thumbnailUrl : fallbackThumbnail}
                         alt="Video Thumbnail"

frontend/src/index.css

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
     --color-accent: #A85A38;
     --color-accent-hover: #94492A;
     --color-live-card: #F0EBE1;
+    --color-fields: #F4F0E8;
 
     /* Colour Fonts */
     --color-text-primary: #2B2620;
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@
     --color-muted: #9A9084;
     --color-hover: #E7E0D2;
     --color-hairline: #F0EBE2;
+    --color-live-red: #B5432E;
 }
 
 :root {
@@ -42,4 +44,5 @@ body {
 @utility font-heading {
     font-family: "Newsreader", serif;
     font-weight: 400;
+    color: #2B2620;
 }

frontend/src/pages/Home.tsx

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ import {useAuth} from "../utils/AuthContext.tsx";
 import NoAccessPage from "../components/NoAccessPage.tsx";
 import {Link} from "react-router-dom";
 import Card from "../components/Card.tsx";
+import {useEffect, useState} from "react";
+import IsLivePulse from "../components/IsLivePulse.tsx";
+import type {StreamStatus} from "../utils/types.ts";
+import {getCurrentStream} from "../utils/api/stream.ts";
 
 type TimeOfDay = "morning" | "afternoon" | "evening" | "night";
 
@@ -44,16 +48,66 @@ function getGreetingSubtext(date: Date = new Date()): string {
     return options[Math.floor(Math.random() * options.length)];
 }
 
-const Home = () => {
+function getTimeFromISOString(date: string | null): string {
-    const { user } = useAuth();
+    if (date == null) {
-    const now = new Date();
+        throw new Error("API has returned no start date");
+    }
 
+    const d = new Date(date);
+    return new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-GB', {
+        hour: '2-digit',
+        minute: '2-digit',
+        hour12: false
+    }).format(d);
+}
+
+const Home = () => {
+    const now = new Date();
     const formatted: string = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-IE', {
         weekday: 'long',
         day: 'numeric',
         month: 'long',
     }).format(now);
 
+    const { user } = useAuth();
+    const [ streamStatus, setStreamStatus ] = useState<StreamStatus | null>(null)
+    const [ greeting ] = useState<string>(getGreetingSubtext(new Date()));
+
+    const [elapsed, setElapsed] = useState('00:00:00');
+
+    useEffect(() => {
+        getCurrentStream()
+            .then(streamStatus => {
+                setStreamStatus(streamStatus)
+
+                // ---- FOR TESTING ONLY, REMOVE AT THE END -----
+                streamStatus.isStreaming = true;
+                streamStatus.id = 49;
+                streamStatus.startDate = "2026-07-30T14:23:01.123456Z"
+            })
+    }, []);
+
+    useEffect(() => {
+        if (streamStatus?.startDate == null) {
+            setElapsed('00:00:00');
+            return;
+        }
+
+        const startMs = new Date(streamStatus?.startDate).getTime();
+
+        const tick = () => {
+            const diffSec = Math.floor((Date.now() - startMs) / 1000);
+            const hh = String(Math.floor(diffSec / 3600)).padStart(2, '0');
+            const mm = String(Math.floor((diffSec % 3600) / 60)).padStart(2, '0');
+            const ss = String(diffSec % 60).padStart(2, '0');
+            setElapsed(`${hh}:${mm}:${ss}`);
+        };
+
+        tick();
+        const interval = setInterval(tick, 1000);
+        return () => clearInterval(interval);
+    }, [streamStatus?.startDate]);
+
     if (user == null) {
         return (<NoAccessPage />)
     }
@@ -63,7 +117,7 @@ const Home = () => {
             <div className={"flex flex-row justify-between items-start pb-10"}>
                 <div>
                     <p className={"font-data text-faint-mono text-sm tracking-widest"}>{formatted.toLocaleUpperCase()}</p>
-                    <h1 className={"font-heading font text-5xl text-text-strong tracking-[-0.015em]"}>{getGreetingSubtext(new Date())}</h1>
+                    <h1 className={"font-heading font text-5xl text-text-strong tracking-[-0.015em]"}>{greeting}</h1>
                 </div>
 
                 <Link to={"/stream"} className={"bg-accent rounded-md text-hover text-sm p-2 hover:bg-accent-hover shadow-md"}>
@@ -71,11 +125,29 @@ const Home = () => {
                 </Link>
             </div>
 
-            <Card className={"bg-live-card pb-10"}>
+            {streamStatus?.isStreaming &&
-                <p></p>
+                <Card className={"bg-live-card p-8"}>
-            </Card>
+                    <div className={"flex flex-row items-center gap-2"}>
+                        <IsLivePulse />
+                        <p className={"text-xs font-data text-live-red"}>LIVE NOW</p>
+                    </div>
 
-            <div>
+                    <div className={"p-1"}></div>
+
+                    <h2 className={"font-heading text-2xl"}>
+                        Session {String(streamStatus.id).padStart(5, '0')} {' '}
+                        recording since {getTimeFromISOString(streamStatus.startDate)}.</h2>
+
+                    <div className={"flex flex-row items-center gap-2 pt-4"}>
+                        <div className={"flex flex-col"}>
+                            <h2 className={"font-data text-xl"}>{elapsed}</h2>
+                            <p className={"text-xs text-muted"}>elapsed</p>
+                        </div>
+                    </div>
+                </Card>
+            }
+
+            <div className={"pt-10"}>
                 <h2 className={"font-heading text-2xl"}>Recent VoDs</h2>
             </div>
 

frontend/src/pages/StreamControl.tsx

@@ -243,6 +243,23 @@ const StreamControl = () => {
         <div className="px-8 py-10 max-w-5xl mx-auto flex flex-col gap-5">
             <h1 className="text-2xl font-semibold text-gray-900">Stream Control</h1>
 
+            {isStreaming &&
+                <Card className={"bg-card pb-10"}>
+                    <div className={"p-6"}>
+                        <p className={"pb-3 font-heading text-text-strong text-xl"}>Server credentials</p>
+
+                        <p className={"font-body text-muted text-sm p-1"}>Ingest URL</p>
+                        <input
+                            type={"text"}
+                            contentEditable={"false"}
+                            className={"bg-fields rounded-xl focus:outline-none w-full p-3 text-text-strong text-sm font-data"}
+                            readOnly={true}
+                            defaultValue={"rtmp://vodsystem.ddns.net:1935/live"}
+                        />
+                    </div>
+                </Card>
+            }
+
             {/* Hero status bar */}
             <Card className={clsx(
                 "p-6 flex items-center justify-between gap-6 border-l-4",

frontend/src/utils/types.ts

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ type JobResponse = {
 type StreamStatus = {
     isStreaming: boolean,
     id: number | null,
+    startDate: string | null
 }
 
 type StreamHistoryItem = {