Kiosk mode

Kiosk mode turns any TV or wall-mounted display into a live building status board. It’s the highest-leverage square metre in the lobby: residents see the elevator situation before they press the button, and the building demonstrates - passively, continuously - that problems are tracked in the open.

What it is

/kiosk is a public, full-screen view designed for distance reading:

Dark theme - a near-black background with inverted ink tokens, built for a screen that’s on all day in a lobby.
Oversized type - readable from across the room, not from a desk chair.
No navigation, no footer - nothing clickable, nothing to wander off to. The cursor is hidden; this is a display, not a workstation.
Auto-refresh every 60 seconds - what’s on the wall is at most a minute stale. No one ever needs to touch it.

It requires no login (it shows only what residents can already see - the public status data), so a TV’s built-in browser or a basic media stick can render it with zero credentials on the device.

What’s on screen

Top to bottom:

Summary banner - the headline numbers: how many assets are operational, degraded, down, and in maintenance right now. On a good day it’s one green line.
All assets, with big slat bars - every asset’s name, current status, and its 90-day uptime bar rendered large. The same colors as everywhere else: green operational, amber degraded, red down, blue for planned maintenance days. A month of elevator trouble is legible from the mailboxes.
Open-incidents ticker - currently open incidents scroll across the display: title, severity, status. Residents see their report up on the board within a minute of filing it - which is both transparency and a gentle prompt for whoever has to acknowledge it.
Upcoming maintenance strip - declared windows ahead (“Pool - maintenance Tue 10:00–14:00”), so planned work is news before it happens, not a complaint after.

Setting up a lobby TV

Any device with a modern browser works. The recipe:

Point a browser at https://your-condopulse.example/kiosk.
Go full-screen (F11 on most browsers, or the platform’s kiosk launch flag).
Disable sleep/screensaver on the device, and set the browser to relaunch the page on boot.

Device-specific notes:

A spare PC / NUC / Raspberry Pi: launch Chromium with chromium --kiosk https://your-condopulse.example/kiosk - kiosk flag gives you full-screen with no browser chrome, surviving reboots via a startup entry.
Smart TVs: the built-in browser is fine for this page (it’s a simple, static-feeling document that re-fetches itself); a small HDMI stick running a real browser is more reliable long-term.
Networking: the device only needs HTTPS access to your CondoPulse host. No login, no stored secrets - if the TV is stolen, nothing leaks that wasn’t already public to the building.

Since the page refreshes itself every 60 seconds, it also recovers from transient network blips on the next cycle - no watchdog needed for ordinary hiccups.

Why boards bother

It changes reporting behaviour. When residents can see open incidents on the wall, they stop assuming “someone must have reported it” - and duplicate phone calls to the manager drop, because the answer to “is the elevator being fixed?” is on the screen.
It’s accountability you don’t have to perform. The uptime bars on the wall are computed from the same record as the board report and digest. A building confident enough to put its numbers in the lobby earns a different kind of trust at the AGM.
It closes the loop visibly. Incidents leave the ticker when they’re resolved; maintenance shows up before it happens. The wall tells the story in real time.

Pairing with QR stickers

The kiosk shows status; QR stickers collect reports. Together they cover the lobby workflow end-to-end: a resident sees the gym listed as operational on the kiosk, walks in, finds a dead treadmill, scans the sticker on it, and the report - and then the amber slat - shows up on the wall behind them.