Sticky Board
Putting the board on a screen
The board is one web page. Open your TV link on any screen with a browser and leave it there. It refreshes itself every few seconds, reloads itself every six hours and after an update, and turns grey with a “No contact since” time if it loses the network. Get the link from the board's manage page under The wall.
A TV with a Fire TV Stick (about $35)
- Plug in the stick, join the Wi-Fi, and install Silk Browser from the Appstore.
- In Silk, type the TV link (or scan the QR on the manage page with the Fire TV phone app and send it). Press the menu button, then Full screen, and bookmark it.
- Stop it sleeping: Settings → Display & Sounds → Screensaver → Start time: Never, and in Settings → Preferences → Sleep choose the longest time. Set the TV's own sleep timer to off.
Silk sometimes reopens on its start page after a reboot: open the bookmark again. Label the stick with the board's name if you run more than one.
A tablet or any Android TV box
Install Fully Kiosk Browser. Set the TV link as the start URL, turn on Keep screen on, Start on boot, and Kiosk mode if people will touch it. Plug the tablet in. An old tablet on a shelf works as well as a TV.
The office computer
Have the board open in its own window every time the computer wakes, which is what most people want on a desk.
Windows
- Press Win+R, type shell:startup, Enter. A folder opens.
- Right-click inside it → New → Shortcut. For the location paste:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --app=YOUR_TV_LINK
- Name it after the board. It opens as a plain window, no tabs, at every sign-in. Set Settings → System → Power so the screen stays on while plugged in.
Mac
- Open Script Editor, paste do shell script "open -na 'Google Chrome' --args --app=YOUR_TV_LINK", and save it as an Application.
- Add that application under System Settings → General → Login Items.
- In Displays → Advanced or Energy, keep the display from sleeping while plugged in.
Any browser works for a plain tab too; the --app= trick just removes the address bar so the board looks like a board.
If something looks wrong
- Grey board, “No contact since …”: the screen has lost the network for two minutes or more. Check Wi-Fi; the board catches up by itself.
- “This link is not valid any more”: someone made a new TV link. Get it from the manage page.
- Cards too small or cut off: the TV's picture setting may be zooming. Choose Just scan, Fit, or Screen fit in the TV's picture menu, not 16:9.
- Lost or stolen device: on the manage page press Make a new TV link. Every old TV link stops working at once.