Using a wall display
A paired display is the family’s screen. Getting started pairs one, and Displays turns a mini PC, a Raspberry Pi, or a tablet into one.
What it shows
Section titled “What it shows”Its sections run down a rail in landscape, or along a bar at the bottom in portrait: Home, Calendar, Chores, Rewards, Meals, Lists, To-dos, and Photos. The header has the time, the nearest countdown, the weather, tonight’s dinner, and a chip for each member: choose chips to narrow what every section shows to those people.
In landscape, the Today panel sits beside every section but Home: countdowns, today’s meals, the to-dos due, and each person’s chores.
Anyone can check off chores and ask for rewards. Checking off to-dos and changing lists needs an adult’s PIN, unless the display allows them (below). When the browser goes offline, the display keeps showing what it last saw and saves what’s checked off for when it’s back.
Grown-up actions
Section titled “Grown-up actions”Some things need an adult: planning meals, editing a chore, or approving a reward. The display asks for an adult’s PIN for those (tap your avatar, then enter the PIN). It stays unlocked for a few minutes, as long as Settings → Household says. PINs are set in Settings → Family.
A display can also let everyone do some things without a PIN. In its settings, under Without a PIN, turn on Add, edit, and delete events or Edit lists and their items.
Night mode and the screensaver
Section titled “Night mode and the screensaver”Night mode dims the display on a schedule (On a schedule, From, Until), or when someone presses Sleep on the rail. A tap wakes it for a minute.
The screensaver starts after the display has been idle a while, unless night mode, a PIN prompt, an open dialog, or cook mode is on. It shows photos from the albums its settings choose, with the time, the date, the weather, and each photo’s caption, each as you choose. A tap returns to the display.
Each display’s own settings
Section titled “Each display’s own settings”In the app, open Displays and choose Settings beside a display:
- Opens on: the section it starts on, and Calendar opens on: the calendar’s view.
- Orientation: automatic, or fixed for a screen that reports the wrong way round.
- Text size and Appearance.
- Visible members: whose things it shows.
- Home: the household’s arrangement of cards, or Its own arrangement.
- Today panel, On-screen keyboard, Night mode, and the screensaver.
- No touch, for a display nobody touches: it hides the rail, the buttons, the keyboard, and the pointer.
When Lantern is updated, each display reloads itself at its next quiet moment.