LiveStatus Walls — uptime on a TV

A LiveStatus Wall is a full-screen, dark dashboard built for a TV in an IT room or NOC. It shows one card per monitor — current status, latest response time, a 24-hour response-time sparkline, last check and 24-hour uptime — and refreshes itself every 20 seconds. When a monitor goes down the wall takes over: the header turns red, the downed card jumps to the front, and a ticking "down for …" counter starts.

There is nothing to install and no layout builder. You create a wall, open its URL on the TV, and you are done.

Creating a wall

1. Go to /walls and create a wall.
2. Choose the Project, then use Load monitors to list its monitors.
3. Name the wall (e.g. "Ops Room TV"), tick the monitors to show, and save.
4. The editor now shows the kiosk URL with a copy button, an Open wall button, and a QR code for pairing a TV or tablet by scanning.

Card size adapts to the monitor count automatically: 6 monitors get huge cards readable from across the room; 40 get a dense grid.

Putting it on a TV

The kiosk URL works in any modern browser with no login, so use whatever the screen offers:

• Smart TV — open the built-in browser, enter the kiosk URL (or scan the QR code with a phone and cast/share it). Set the TV's sleep/screensaver timer to off — the wall never goes idle, but most TVs sleep anyway unless told not to.

• Chrome kiosk mode — on a PC or stick PC driving the screen:

  chrome --kiosk --noerrdialogs --disable-session-crashed-bubble "https://…/wall/{token}"
  

• Raspberry Pi — Raspberry Pi OS + Chromium in kiosk mode is the classic budget NOC screen. Add the same --kiosk flags to the autostart entry, and disable screen blanking (raspi-config → Display Options).

Keep-awake: the wall itself never navigates or expires, so the only thing that can blank the screen is the device's own power settings. Disable sleep/screen-blanking on the device and the wall runs indefinitely. If the wall ever loses its connection, it says so — a bright amber DATA STALE bar appears rather than silently showing old numbers.

Token security and rotation

The kiosk URL contains a long random token, and that token is the entire credential — anyone with the URL can view the wall (monitor names, statuses and uptime numbers; never targets or configuration). Treat it like a password:

• Share it only with screens and people who should see it.
• If it leaks — an ex-employee, a screenshot with the address bar visible — open the wall's editor and use Rotate URL. The old URL stops working immediately and every TV must be re-paired with the new one.
• Walls are never listed in the sitemap, are excluded in robots.txt, and every response carries a noindex header, so search engines never index them.

Settings reference

Display settings can also be overridden per screen straight in the URL, without touching the wall itself:

/wall/{token}?density=compact&sound=off&rotate=30

density= accepts auto|comfortable|compact, sound= accepts on|off, and rotate= accepts seconds or off.

Plan availability

White-labeling a wall with your own logo in the header (for a client-site TV) is available on the Business plan and up, like status-page white-label.

For a customer-facing page with uptime history and incident timelines, see status pages — walls are the internal, on-the-TV counterpart.