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LiveStatus Walls — uptime on a TV

Put a full-screen, auto-refreshing monitoring dashboard on any TV or NOC screen with one tokenized URL. Ten themes, playlists that rotate walls, multi-project walls and no login on the TV.

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A LiveStatus Wall is a full-screen, dark dashboard built for a TV in an IT room, a NOC or a reception area. You pick the monitors, pick a theme, and open the wall's URL on the screen. It refreshes itself every 20 seconds, and when a monitor goes down the wall makes sure the room notices.

There is nothing to install on the TV and no login. The URL is the whole setup.

Creating a wall

  1. Go to /walls and create a wall.
  2. Choose the wall's Project and give it a Name (e.g. "Ops Room TV"). The project owns the wall: it decides who can edit it and counts towards your plan's wall limit. The name is shown in the wall's header.
  3. Pick a theme (see below). Each theme has a thumbnail and a live preview with sample data, so you can see it before you save.
  4. Tick the monitors to show. The picker lists every monitor in your organization, grouped by project and then by monitor group, with a search box and a "select all" box per group.
  5. Save. The editor then shows the kiosk URL with a copy button, an Open wall button, and a QR code for pairing a TV or tablet by scanning.

Walls across several projects

A wall can show monitors from any project in your organization, not just its own. That is how one NOC screen covers everything, and how the Clients theme shows one tile per client.

When the ticked monitors come from more than one project, the editor warns you: anyone with the wall's URL sees every monitor on it. Don't mix different clients' monitors on a screen that one client can see. A Client-role user only sees a wall when every monitor on it is in their own projects.

Themes

Theme What it shows Plan
Grid The classic dashboard: a card per monitor with its response time and 24-hour trend. Cards size themselves to the count (6 monitors get huge cards; 40 get a dense grid). Every plan
Departures Board Airport-style board: one row per monitor with status, duration and remarks. Every plan
Mission Control NOC console: a big overall verdict and an uptime ring beside every service, with an incident ticker. Every plan
Signal Response-time charts for every monitor on one shared scale, with your latency target marked. Every plan
Beacon Colour blocks you can read from across the room, so problems are impossible to miss. Every plan
Triage Down and degraded monitors float to the top; healthy ones shrink. Every plan
Honeycomb A hex cell per monitor, clustered by group, for 50–500 monitors at a glance. Every plan
Timeline 24-hour swimlanes per monitor with a 90-day uptime strip (14 days on Free, which shows 14 days of history). Every plan
Ambient A calm reception-area mode that takes over the screen when something breaks. Uses public incident wording by default. Every plan
Clients Agency board: one tile per client project, showing its worst current state. Agency and Enterprise

If your plan changes, a wall that already uses the Clients theme keeps it and keeps working. You just can't switch another wall to it.

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 and enter the kiosk URL (or scan the QR code with a phone and cast or share it). Set the TV's sleep and 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 with Chromium in kiosk mode is the classic budget NOC screen. Add the same --kiosk flags to the autostart entry, and turn off screen blanking (raspi-config → Display Options).

Keep-awake: the wall itself never navigates away or expires, so only the device's own power settings can blank the screen. Turn off sleep and screen blanking on the device and the wall runs indefinitely.

If the wall loses its connection, it says so rather than quietly showing old numbers. After a missed refresh it shows when it last updated; after two, a "Data may be stale" banner appears; after five minutes without data the screen turns grey.

Playlists: one TV, several walls

A playlist rotates one screen through several walls, for example the ops overview, then each client's board. Create one from Walls → Playlists:

  1. Name the playlist. The name is only for you; the TV shows each wall's own name.
  2. Add walls in the order you want them, and set how long each stays on screen (10–600 seconds). A playlist can hold up to 50 walls.
  3. Leave Hold on a wall with a problem on (the default) so that while any monitor is DOWN, the TV stays on the first wall that shows it instead of rotating away.
  4. Open the playlist's own kiosk URL on the TV.

A playlist has its own token, separate from its walls' tokens, and can be rotated the same way. You can create as many playlists as your plan allows walls.

Settings reference

Display

Setting What it does
Density Auto (recommended) picks the card size from the monitor count; Comfortable and Compact force it.
Rotate pages every When there are more monitors than fit on screen, cycle through pages every N seconds (5–300). Leave empty for no rotation.
Show clock and date The running clock at the top of the wall. Incident times ("Started 2:02 PM") always show.
Time format 12-hour (3:40 PM) or 24-hour (15:40), for every time on the wall.
Timezone The zone the wall's clock and times use, whatever the TV itself is set to. Defaults to your organization's timezone.
Chime on new incidents One subtle tone when a monitor goes down, generated in the browser. Browsers block sound until someone clicks the page once, so the wall shows a small "Click anywhere to enable sound" chip until then.
Accent color Recolours the sparklines and page dots to match the room or the client's brand.

Screen

Setting What it does
Colours Colour-blind safe (the default for new walls) uses teal, pink-red, amber and blue; every state also shows a symbol and a word, and outages are hatched. Classic is the original green/amber/red look.
Viewing distance Scales the text for where people actually look at the TV: close (a desk or small office), across a room (recommended), or far (a large ops room or hallway).
Take over the screen on a new outage When a monitor goes down, the whole TV shows it in large type, then steps back a set time after it recovers (1–60 minutes, default 5). On by default.
Incident wording Automatic uses public wording on the Ambient theme only. Detailed shows causes and who acknowledged. Public says "Service disruption" and nothing more, for TVs customers can see. Public wording is applied on our servers: the wall's data feed and page source carry no cause text or acknowledger names, not just the screen.
Burn-in protection Nudges the picture by a pixel every minute and softens static headers, to protect OLED and plasma screens left on 24/7. On by default.
Dim at night Lowers the brightness between two times you choose, in the wall's timezone. An outage still shows at full brightness.

Per-screen overrides in the URL

Any display setting can be overridden for one screen straight in the URL, without changing the wall:

/wall/{token}?density=compact&sound=off&rotate=30&room=large&hours=24
Parameter Values
density auto, comfortable, compact
sound on, off
rotate seconds (5–300) or off
clock on, off
hours 12, 24
tz an IANA timezone, e.g. Europe/London
palette colourblind, default
room small, medium, large
takeover on, off
burnin on, off
public auto, on, off
nightdim off, or a window such as 22:00-07:00

The public parameter can make one screen more private, never less. ?public=on switches a wall to public wording. ?public=off and ?public=auto are ignored on a wall saved with Public wording, and on an Automatic wall saved on the Ambient theme.

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. Playlists have their own Rotate URL too.
  • 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.

Branding

Put your own logo in the wall's header (useful for a TV at a client's site) on the Business plan and up, like status-page white-label. If you move to a plan without white-label, an existing logo stays on the wall; you just can't change it.

Plan availability

Plan Walls
Free 1
Pro 2
Business 5
Agency 5
Enterprise 50

Playlists follow the same number: you can have as many playlists as your plan allows walls.

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

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