TV and web on a face

TV & web puts a website onto one face of the house: a scoreboard on game day, a live stream, a slideshow you host, or a streaming service you already pay for. The player box opens the page in its own browser, corner-pins it to the face you pick with everything else black, and you drive the page from the designer or your phone.

Set it up

In Remote Display → Jukebox, games & TV → TV & web:

1. Your sites. Add an address. The box needs its browser, which the Linux installer adds unless you passed --no-live; if the tab says the box has no browser, run the install line again without it.
2. Where it plays. Pick the face from the designer's Remote Display tab, where the house is open, or use the whole projector picture. A change moves the picture at once, without reloading the page.
3. Open it. The site opens on the box until the next scheduled change, like any other override. Start page goes back to the site's front.

Driving the page

Under Remote:

• The page (tap to click): press New picture to see what the box's browser shows, then tap where you want to click. Arrows, Backspace and scrolling are buttons.
• Type: what you type is sent to the box and wiped from the server as soon as the box has it (within a minute if the box is offline). Sites show passwords as dots, so they never appear in the picture. Signing in to a service happens on the box, in its own browser profile, and stays signed in.
• Sound: volume and mute for the house are on the Sound tab and apply here too.

Streaming services

A streaming site plays in the box's browser like it would on a laptop, with the same limits:

• Some services block playback in a browser they do not recognise, or play only with an account signed in on the box. Check that your service allows playback in a browser.
• Services that protect their video cap the resolution in a Linux browser, typically at 720p and sometimes lower. On the side of a house that is rarely the thing you notice.
• Your subscription, its terms and what you may show in public are between you and the service. Projector Show only opens the page.