Put it on your TV

Smart TVs and streaming sticks

1. Fire TV. Install the Silk Browser from the Amazon Appstore, open it and go to a channel’s address, like civic.statesig.tv. Press the menu button and choose full screen.
2. Android TV and Google TV. Install a browser from the Play Store (the TV’s own store lists several), open a channel’s address and switch it to full screen.
3. Samsung, LG and other smart TVs. Open the TV’s built-in web browser, go to a channel’s address and hide the address bar. Some TVs dim or switch off after a while with no button presses; turn that off in the TV’s power or eco settings.
4. Roku and Apple TV don’t have a web browser. Cast to them from a phone, tablet or computer instead (below).

Casting from a computer, phone or tablet

1. Chromecast or a Google TV. Open a channel in Chrome on a computer, open Chrome’s menu, choose Cast and pick the TV. Make the channel full screen on the computer and the TV follows.
2. AirPlay from an iPad, iPhone or Mac. Open a channel in Safari, then use Screen Mirroring from Control Center (or the Mac’s menu bar) and pick the Apple TV or AirPlay TV. Turn the iPad sideways for the full picture.
3. A cable. An HDMI cable from a laptop is the most reliable of all. Open the channel, press F11 (or use the browser’s full-screen command) and leave the laptop plugged in.

Tablets and phones

1. Add it to your home screen. In Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. In Chrome on Android, open the menu and choose Add to Home screen or Install. The channel then opens full screen, like an app.
2. Keep the screen on. Set Auto-Lock (iPad) or Screen timeout (Android) to its longest setting while it’s plugged in, or use Guided Access on an iPad to keep it on one channel.
3. Sideways is best. The channels are drawn for a wide screen. A tablet on a stand, turned sideways, is the way they were designed to be seen.

A screen of its own

An old monitor and a Raspberry Pi make a channel that runs all day. Install Raspberry Pi OS with the desktop, then have Chromium open the channel full screen when the Pi starts, with its kiosk option (on Raspberry Pi OS older than 2025 the command is chromium-browser):

chromium --kiosk --noerrdialogs --disable-session-crashed-bubble https://civic.statesig.tv/tv

Any old laptop or mini PC works the same way. To show every channel at once, point it at the wall instead.

Changing channels

• Remote or keyboardChannel up and down, Page Up and Down or the arrow keys go to the next channel.
• TouchSwipe up or down to change the channel. Tap the screen to show the bar with every channel and full screen.
• Big news elsewhereWhen another channel has a decision, a signing or a big vote, a banner says so for a few seconds. Tap it to switch over.
• Everything at onceThe wall shows every channel on one screen and lights up the one with news.

Add the desks to your calendar

Each desk publishes a calendar that keeps itself up to date. Subscribe once and the dates appear in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook as they’re announced.

On a phone or a Mac, Subscribe opens your calendar app. For Google Calendar, copy the address, then in Google Calendar choose Other calendars, +, From URL and paste it. Calendars refresh on your calendar app’s schedule, usually every few hours.