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 account. Create one dedicated account for each physical display 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 secret share link. Each display signs in as a normal department member and sees only the information that account is allowed to read.
That means departments can:
- Give a display read-only access
- Enable only the modules its widgets require
- Keep create, update, and archive permissions off an unattended screen
- Use a separate account for each device
- Revoke access through the same membership controls used everywhere else
The result is a useful wall display without creating a second authentication model or exposing department data outside the normal permission system.
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.
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.