The room announces itself.
Every TV and table screen in the room already knows what is supposed to be happening right now, because someone told the console once. No laptop taped behind a TV, no script running on a cron job and hoping, no walking the room with a USB stick. Walk in and the room is already telling people what is on. Walk out knowing which screens stayed up all day.
The program of the day, on every screen
Author the day's program once, in a browser, alongside the console that already runs the floor. Every board in the room, lobby TVs and the screens embedded at the tables, picks it up on its own and keeps itself current: what is happening right now, what is next, and what just wrapped. Programs that overlap run as their own lanes in that one document, so nobody re-keys a schedule twice. Nobody touches the TV. Nobody touches the table. The program simply appears where it belongs and moves forward as the day does.
See which screens stayed up
A schedule is a promise, and a dark TV is the quiet way it breaks. Every screen checks in through the day with a capture, so an operator can open one report and see which boards were live, which went flat or dark, and which stopped answering altogether, with the times beside them - every board, not just the ones someone happened to walk past. No more finding out a screen was dark after a guest mentions it on the way out. What it does not do yet is read that capture back against the itinerary: a live board tells you the screen was up, not which block was on it.
How it works
- 01 Author the day once. Build the itinerary in the browser, the way you already manage the rest of the floor.
- 02 Every board runs itself. Screens pull the program on their own and advance through it all day, with no file to push and no script to babysit.
- 03 The check-ins land on their own. Each screen leaves captures behind as the day runs, so the morning-after question about a dark TV is answered before anyone has to ask it.
The room is already telling people what is happening, on every screen that matters, before staff say a word.
A report is waiting that shows which screens stayed up and when, screen by screen, without anyone having to walk the room to check.
Boards runs on the same console and the same crew that already run the rest of Helm. If it plays a role in how your rooms work, tell us what you run today and we will show you how it fits.