Smart TV
Android TV & Google TV
Install the app from Google Play, approve a short code from your phone, and leave it running. The biggest and most readable of the three.
Android TV setupSetup guides
Put TickrDash on any screen
TickrDash runs on the screens you already own: a TV with access to the Play Store, a tablet on the counter, a browser tab on a spare monitor. Pick the one you have, follow its guide, and run the whole thing from your phone afterwards.
Pick the screen you already have
There is no TickrDash hardware to buy. Every setup below puts the same dashboard on a screen that is already in the room — the only thing that changes is how you get it there.
Tablet
iPad & iPhone
Nothing to download. Open the site in Safari and add it to the home screen — it launches full-screen, just like an app.
iPad setup
Browser
Any browser
A smart-TV browser, a laptop on HDMI, a spare monitor. Sign in, pick a layout and leave the tab open. There is no install step at all.
Open the live demoTwo more notes on devices. Android phones and tablets can run the board in the browser exactly like any other screen. Fire TV is coming soon.
What you need before you start
The list is short, and most of it you already have.
- A TickrDash account. Sign in with Google, Apple or Microsoft. Your settings and your subscription follow your email address, so use the same account on every screen you set up.
- Your phone or computer. The control panel is the remote: it is where you follow teams, add ZIP codes and switch layouts, and it works while the big screen keeps cycling.
- Less than ten minutes for a TV, two for an iPad. Sign in once, pick your content once, and the screen looks after itself from then on.
Which screen suits which room
All three setups show the same content. What changes is viewing distance, and that is what should decide the device.
Living room, den or basement
A wall-mounted TV is the one screen in the house you already read from ten feet away, which is exactly what a whole-league board needs. The Smart Scoreboard fits up to eight games on one slide, so a full Saturday or Sunday slate goes by in a couple of turns. This is the Android TV or Google TV setup.
Kitchen counter or workshop bench
A tablet propped up beside the toaster is the classic always-on dash: close enough to read one game card at a time, small enough that nobody minds it being on all evening. Plug it in, add it to the home screen and forget it. This is the iPad setup — an old tablet you stopped carrying around is perfect for it.
Desk and second monitor
At arm’s length a browser tab is the easiest option and needs no install. It also suits the mixed board best: scores between innings, then your stock quotes and market indices, local weather by ZIP code and lottery results, all in the same rotation.
Bar, gym or waiting room
More than one screen, or screens the public sees, is a different conversation — multi-site licensing, custom packages and central admin control. The bars and venues page covers it, and the setup steps on this page still apply to each individual screen.
Set it once. Then steer it from your phone.
Every guide on this page lands in the same place: a screen that runs itself and a phone that changes it.
01
Sign in on the screen
On a TV, approve a short code from your phone — no password typed with a remote. On a tablet or in a browser, sign in the normal way with Google, Apple or Microsoft.
02
Pick your teams, tickers and ZIP
Turn on the leagues you follow, add teams, standings, weather and market symbols. Anything you leave off never reaches the screen.
03
Change it mid-game
The control panel updates the big screen as soon as you save, with no restart, and quick presets swap the whole board in one tap when the good game moves.
Want to see the rotation before you set anything up? The live demo is the real product running on captured data, in your browser, with no account needed.
Look up. Stay ahead.
See it running before you sign up — the demo is the real product (with non-live data).