Skip to content
CurrentView

Your board

Kiosk and TV setup

Put your live board on a TV, tablet or kiosk (Fire TV, Google TV, Chromecast, iPad, PC) with rotating views, a nightly reload and a screen that stays awake.

Every location has a board link: currentview.app/d/your-name/location. Open it on the device’s browser and make it full screen. That’s the whole setup — the page keeps the screen awake, reconnects by itself if the Wi-Fi blips, and reloads once a night to pick up updates.

TV layouts

In Locations → Display board, pick how the screen is laid out. Classic shows everything on the board as one grid and rotates the views you choose below. The other layouts take today’s items one category at a time — only categories that have something on the board, and a new item or category joins the loop by itself:

  • Chapters — your categories with counts down the side, one category on the stage at a time.
  • Stories — one category per screen, edge to edge, with a progress bar along the top.
  • Spotlight — your featured item stays on the left while categories rotate as a menu list.

Each category stays up longer the more items it has, up to the seconds you set. Preview opens the board with that layout before you save; ?layout=stories on any board link does the same.

An item with a video in its gallery plays it on the TV — muted, looping, in the item’s spot — on every layout. Add ?detail=1 to a board link on a touch kiosk or tablet so tapping an item opens its photos and videos; TVs leave that off.

Rotating views (Classic)

In Locations → Display board, choose the views to cycle through (for example Today, then Featured) and how many seconds each one stays. The TV follows the settings without being touched. You can also force a view with ?view=featured or a rotation with ?rotate=today,featured&interval=15 on the link itself.

Device notes

  • Fire TV / Fire Stick — install the Silk browser, open the link, press the menu button and choose Full screen. Set it as the home page.
  • Chromecast with Google TV — open the link in Chrome, then use the Add to home screen option for a one-tap launch.
  • iPad — open in Safari, Share → Add to Home Screen, then launch from the icon; turn on Guided Access to lock it.
  • Any PC on a TV — Chrome or Edge in kiosk mode: chrome --kiosk https://currentview.app/d/your-name.

Portrait screens work too — the board rearranges itself.