Put the board on your screen

Your board lives at a web address. Anything with a web browser can show it. Here is how to make it fill the screen and stay on.

A TV with a built-in browser (most Samsung and LG sets)

  1. Open the TV's browser app: "Internet" on Samsung, "Web Browser" on LG.
  2. Type your board's address and press Enter.
  3. Bookmark it, or set it as the home page, so it is one click next time.
  4. The page fills the screen. The address bar hides on its own, or when you press Back on the remote.
  5. Turn off the sleep timer: Samsung under Settings, General, System Manager; LG under Settings, General, Timers.

Any other TV: a Fire TV Stick (about $30 to $50)

  1. Plug the stick into an HDMI port and set it up on your Wi-Fi.
  2. Install "Amazon Silk", the web browser, from the stick's app store.
  3. Open Silk, type the address, and bookmark it.
  4. Silk shows pages full screen; its toolbar only appears when you press the menu button.
  5. Settings, Display & Sounds, Screensaver: set the start time to Never.

iPad

  1. Open the address in Safari.
  2. Tap Share, then "Add to Home Screen". Tap the new icon: the board opens full screen with no browser bars.
  3. Settings, Display & Brightness, Auto-Lock: Never, so the screen stays on while it is plugged in.
  4. Optional: Settings, Accessibility, Guided Access locks the iPad to the board so nobody wanders off it.

Android tablet

  1. Open the address in Chrome. Menu, then "Add to Home screen", then Install. The icon opens the board full screen.
  2. Settings, Display, Screen timeout: the longest setting. A kiosk app such as Fully Kiosk Browser can lock the tablet to the board.

Laptop or desktop

  1. Open the address in Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari.
  2. Click the corners button at the bottom right of the board (it appears when you move the mouse), or press F. Press Esc to leave full screen.
  3. Turn off sleep in the computer's power settings.

Good to know. The board refreshes itself every 10 minutes. If the internet drops, it keeps showing the last data it had and catches up when the connection returns. The clock and countdown run on the device's own clock, so keep that set right.