Files and sheets
Google Sheets, Microsoft workbooks and files fetched from a URL.
Data and integrations
Digital signage integrations that keep screens on live data.
The departures list, the lunch menu and the sales figures already live somewhere. Copies typed onto slides by hand are slow to make and soon out of date. In Wallboard a datasource connects once to the system that holds the data. Every piece of content bound to it then shows the current values on each refresh.
How it works
From source system to screen.
Pick a datasource type
Choose the type that matches where the data lives, then enter its URL, credentials or file.
Set how often it refreshes
Pick an interval in seconds or a cron expression with a time zone. Cache images locally if you want faster playback.
Check the preview
The editor shows the returned data as JSON. Query filters apply before the data reaches any screen.
Bind content to it
Point a widget in a slide or playlist at the datasource. The screen changes when the data does.
Where the data can come from.
Databases and APIs
Any JSON or XML endpoint. SQL databases connect over JDBC, which we set up with you as a services project.
Feeds and the web
RSS feeds, website screenshots, and a web scraper that turns a page into data from a written prompt.
Calendars
Google and Microsoft calendars, read-only or writable from content.
Business systems
Toast, Power BI, SharePoint lists and news, Notion databases, Meta pages, Active Directory, Amadeus events, CAP alerts and weather.
Tables you keep in Wallboard
When Wallboard itself should hold the data, build a typed table or a free-form JSON store inside it.
Edits from people without a login
A shared link lets a store manager update prices in a browser or on a phone. Locked rows stay locked.
Every source in one editor.
Every external type opens in the same full-screen editor. On the left sit the settings for that type. The middle panel holds the advanced options for refresh, caching and error handling, and the right panel previews the data once you save. Status badges in the header show whether the datasource is active. They also show whether it will switch off by itself when nothing uses it, which happens after 7 days without an online screen playing it, or after 25 failed refreshes in a row. Teams decide who can see and edit each one.
Related pages.
E-paper displays
Run Sharp and Philips e-paper panels from the same console, on a wake and sleep cycle that uses almost no power.
Toast integration
Menu boards that read items, prices and stock straight from a restaurant’s Toast account.
AI scraping
Describe what you want from a public web page, and the web scraper returns it as structured data.
APIs and webhooks
Write to internal tables or refresh a datasource from your own code.
Docs and guides.
Bring one data source to the demo.
Share a sheet, a feed or an API endpoint your screens should show. In the demo we’ll connect it and bind a slide to it. If no built-in type fits, our support team can scope a custom datasource with you.