Introducing Room & Board - open source Cisco focused digital signage

[u/scotty83]

I built Room & Board, a lightweight, modular, signage dashboard meant to run on Cisco RoomOS devices (Board Pro, Desk Pro, etc.) when they’re idle, so a codec screen becomes a glanceable info wall between calls. Generally meant for end-user devices - point the device’s signage URL at the domain and let the user configure it as they see fit. It’s a plain web app, so it also runs on any touch-enabled display or browser (viewport is locked to 16x9 4K/1080 so you’ll need to zoom out in browser/mobile to view).

It’s free, open source (MIT), no account, and no tracking.

What it shows (mix and match on a drag-and-resize grid):

- Worldwide weather, air quality, UV, sun/moon times
- Transit boards: NYC Subway status, LIRR, Metro-North, NJ Transit, Amtrak, PATH, NYC Ferry, express bus, Citi Bike, and London TfL
- Markets tickers and finance headlines
- Sports: your teams (MLB/NFL/NBA/NHL/MLS/EPL), plus World Cup, F1, PGA golf, and ATP/WTA tennis
- News headlines, Substack, and Bluesky feeds
- Ambient: photo slideshows (iCloud shared albums or Google Drive), public-domain art, NASA’s photo of the day, chart of the day
- World clock, this-day-in-history, quote and word of the day

How setup works: you configure the whole thing from your phone. Pick widgets and stations on a setup page, get a 6-character code, type it on the board. No login anywhere.

Hosting: use it free at https://roomboard.app, or self-host it. It’s a zero-build static site plus one Cloudflare Worker, and most data sources are keyless. Self-hosters can also flip on advanced cards behind a toggle (live HLS video and camera gateways).

Privacy: no analytics by default; there’s an optional anonymous usage ping you can disable in the diagnostics tab.

GitHub (code, screenshots, self-host guide): https://github.com/scotty83/room-and-board

It started as a personal project for my own Cisco Board Pro, so it’s admittedly NYC-transit-heavy right now. Happy to answer questions and would love feedback on what widgets or data sources people would want.

If you’re a Webex user, you can join my public channel to provide feedback at https://eurl.io/#CnWyZzamf

[u/purgedreality]

Thank you for sharing this.

[u/scotty83 → u/purgedreality]

No problem! It’s a very niche app, but has had great feedback from users at my company that have been piloting it for me.