TV Dashboard

Last updated 10/6/2026

Overview

The TV Dashboard is a full-screen display built for a screen on the clubhouse wall. It cycles through one screen per active aircraft — the photo, tail number, current status, who has it now and who's next, open squawks, maintenance intervals, and the aircraft's contacts — and then shows upcoming events three at a time. Each screen stays up for about twenty seconds before fading to the next. It needs no login, no keyboard, and no one to babysit it: point a browser at the display URL and leave it running.

Because it hangs where guests and visitors can read it, the display is deliberately more discreet than the in-app dashboard. Member names are abbreviated to a first name and last initial, and squawk reporters aren't shown at all.

Required Role

You must have the Account Owner role to create, replace, or turn off the display URL and to change its appearance.

Setting It Up

  1. Click Setup in the navigation bar, then select the Data & Features tab.
  2. Find the TV Dashboard card and click Create display URL.
  3. Copy the Display URL shown on the card and open it in the browser on the TV or signage player.

The URL contains a short access code that is the only thing standing between the public and your club's fleet status, so treat it like a door code: share it with whoever sets up the screen, not in a club-wide email. Pages at this address are hidden from search engines.

Appearance

The Appearance toggle on the card switches the display between Light and Dark. This is a club setting rather than a time-of-day rule, because what reads well depends on the room, the windows, and the panel itself. The wall display updates within a few seconds, so you can flip the switch while standing in front of the TV and pick whichever looks right.

What the Display Shows

For each aircraft:

  • Status — Down during an active maintenance block, Grounded when an open squawk recommends grounding, Flying during a live reservation, otherwise Available. The display reads Available the moment a reservation window ends; there is no grace period on the wall.
  • Now and Next — who has the aircraft now and who is up next, with abbreviated names.
  • Open squawks — the most serious first, trimmed to a few lines each, with a count of how many are open.
  • Maintenance intervals — including healthy ones, so the screen is a quick fleet-health check rather than only an exception list.
  • Contacts — the aircraft's maintenance and instructor contacts.

Then upcoming events, three per screen, in order.

The display refreshes on its own whenever something changes in the app — a new reservation, a closed squawk, a finished flight — and falls back to a periodic refresh if the live connection drops. A small Live chip in the header changes to an amber Reconnecting when the display has lost its connection, so a stale screen is visible from across the room. The mouse cursor is hidden while the display is idle; moving the mouse brings it back for a few seconds, so an admin previewing the URL on a laptop can still close the tab.

Replacing or Turning Off the Display

  • Replace the display URL generates a new access code and invalidates the old one. Do this if the URL has been shared more widely than intended. Every screen using the old URL goes blank until it is pointed at the new one.
  • Turn off the TV dashboard removes the URL entirely. The wall display stops working immediately, and you can create a new URL later.

Tips

  • Check the TV's browser first when the display looks broken or unstyled. The dashboard needs a reasonably current browser (roughly 2023 or newer). Older smart-TV browsers and signage players may not render it correctly.
  • Use the aircraft photo field. The display shows each aircraft's photo as a full-frame hero image. A real photo of the actual airplane makes the wall look like your club, not a template. See Adding Aircraft.
  • Keep event titles short. Three events share a screen, and nobody reads a paragraph from across a clubhouse.
  • Some signage players embed pages in a frame rather than opening them directly. The TV Dashboard is the one page in Centerline that allows this, so either approach works.
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