Put the Right Information on the Station Wall
A station board should answer the questions crews ask at a glance: What is happening now? Who is on duty? Which apparatus is ready? What training, tests, or certifications are coming due?
Command Established turns your department dashboard into a full-screen Station Board for a television, watch desk, or bay monitor. It uses the operational data your department already maintains, so the wall display stays current without another slideshow, spreadsheet, or system to update.
One Board, Built From Live Department Data
Station Board is part of the customizable Command Established dashboard. Choose the widgets that matter to a particular station, arrange them for the screen, and enter Display mode for a dark, high-contrast presentation that is readable from across the room.
A board can bring together:
- Active incidents with response stage, turnout time, units, responders, and route context
- Current weather, hourly conditions, alerts, and live precipitation radar
- Department announcements drawn from your Log Books
- On-duty staffing and personnel assignments
- Apparatus tests and rig check-offs
- Expiring certifications and overdue readiness items
- Upcoming training
- Recent incidents
- Inventory compliance
The information remains connected to its source. Update a schedule, announcement, certification, apparatus record, or incident in Command Established and the Station Board reflects the department's current picture.
Operations at a Glance
An operations board can put today's most useful information in one place: weather and radar, recent calls, department announcements, upcoming training, and apparatus test status.
Display mode removes the normal application navigation, enlarges text and controls, and uses the full screen. If the dashboard is taller than the monitor, optional auto-scroll slowly cycles through it. Touch, mouse, keyboard, or wheel activity pauses the movement while someone is looking more closely.
A Readiness Board for Every House
Not every station needs the same view. A headquarters screen might emphasize calls, announcements, and weather, while another house focuses on staffing, certifications, apparatus tests, check-offs, and inventory compliance.
Dashboard layouts are saved per device. Pair each physical display separately and every house can have a board tailored to its responsibilities—without changing what members see on their own dashboards.
Active Calls Stay Visible Without Becoming a Dead-End Link
When the department has an active response, Station Board places a clear status strip at the top of the display. In full-screen Display mode, it reports the number of active calls and remains pinned while the widgets move underneath it.
The status is intentionally presentation-first: an unattended wall screen does not show a call-to-action that assumes someone will follow a link. When a member needs more detail, they can leave Display mode or open the expanded incident view to see the call type, address, stage, turnout timer, assigned resources, responding roster, and available route map.
A single active response expands into a detailed incident card with a live turnout timer.
Secure by Default
Station Board is not a public URL or a secret share link. Each display is a paired device: it signs in as itself, with no email and no password, so nobody's login is left sitting on a screen in the day room.
Adding one takes a name and the Station board preset — read-only access to the handful of things a wall display shows. From there, departments can:
- Keep create, update, and archive permissions off an unattended screen
- Widen or narrow a particular display's access at any time, permission by permission
- Give each house its own display with its own access
- Sign a screen out from any phone or computer if it is moved or removed
A display can never be an owner or an administrator, whatever else it is granted. The result is a useful wall screen that holds only what a wall screen needs.
Start Small, Then Tune the Board to the Room
Begin with a few high-signal widgets and run the board for several shifts. Adjust the layout based on the screen size, viewing distance, and the information members actually stop to read. A watch-desk monitor can carry more detail; a bay television usually works best with fewer, larger widgets.
A station board is one shape of a paired device; the tablet in the engine is another. See Paired Devices for how a department puts a tablet on the rig and keeps the work recorded under the crew member who did it.
For setup instructions, recommended read-only permissions, example operations and readiness layouts, auto-scroll guidance, and troubleshooting, see Set Up a Station Board Wall Display.