How to create a TV dashboard for monday.com | Geckoboard blog

Introduction

For many years now, monday.com has been a much-loved task management tool. It makes it easy to organize your team’s workflow and stay on top of your deadlines. It also has some excellent dashboard tools you can use to track your team's progress and pull out different metrics and KPIs.

However, if you’ve ever tried to display your monday.com dashboards on an office wallboard, you’ll know that these dashboards aren’t built with permanent TV display in mind. For this, you will need a specialist dashboard tool like Geckoboard.

In this article, we’ll explore step-by-step how to set up a TV dashboard using your monday.com data.

What are the benefits of displaying monday.com data on a TV?

There are many reasons why you need to display monday.com data via a TV wallboard, where everyone can see it.

• Data-driven culture: Exposing your people to performance KPIs helps them gain a deeper understanding of how the team works and how KPIs contribute to goals.
• Unblock workflows: Make sure the entire team is in the loop when tasks are stuck, overdue, or unassigned, so everyone can rally around and resolve blockers.
• Friendly competition: Visualizing output metrics helps to motivate people, keeping the whole team accountable and focused on the metrics that matter.

Step-by-step: Building a TV dashboard for monday.com

Geckoboard is the perfect TV dashboard solution because it:

• connects to monday.com and supports real-time data refresh
• connects to other data sources you might want to display such as Salesforce, Zendesk, and Shopify.
• is optimized for TV, meaning it can indefinitely be displayed in full screen, can be understood at a distance, and can be updated remotely.

Step 1: Sign up to Geckoboard

You’ll have full access to Geckoboard’s features for your 14-day free trial – there are no credit details required.

Step 2: Connect monday.com

To begin, select ‘add widget’ then choose monday.com.

You can select any of the widget options to get started, then follow the instructions to connect Geckoboard to your monday account.

Step 3: Create a widget

Now you’ve connected your account, you can start building widgets. (A widget is a data visualization: such as a line chart, a leaderboard, a gauge, or a number.)

You can choose to change the visualization type or make your widget even more useful by adding goals and status indicators. This helps your team better understand if a metric is good or bad, or if they need to take action.

Step 4: Complete your dashboard

Next, build up your dashboard by adding more widgets. You can connect other data sources to create a KPI dashboard that displays metrics from different areas of your business. In this dashboard, we’ve included metrics from Google Analytics, Instagram, Mailchimp, and Shopify.

Step 5: Select the right hardware for your TV dashboard

In order to display your monday.com dashboard on a TV, you’re going to need the following hardware:

• A TV – any HD TV screen should work. You could also use a computer monitor, but these are likely to be smaller and more expensive.
• A small computer – this is going to be more reliable than using a smart TV. By choosing a small computer, it makes it easy to store the device discreetly behind the TV. We recommend a PC stick or Raspberry Pi, which are small and inexpensive.
• An HDMI lead to connect your screen to your computer.

Step 6: Setting up your TV dashboard

Once you have your hardware, you can set up your TV dashboard.

Position your TV
You should think about the position of your dashboard and who needs to view it. They should be able to read it easily (at a glance) from where they are working.

Kiosk mode
We recommend you set up your device in kiosk mode. Kiosk mode configures the computer device so that it runs a single application when it’s turned on – this basically means it’s always going to open up on your dashboard, every time the device boots up.

We’ve created some step-by-step guides to setting up Windows devices and Raspberry Pi in Kiosk mode.

Step 7: Connect Geckoboard

Using a different computer, log in to Geckoboard and select ‘Send to TV’. Here you can pair your TV to your dashboard.

This is where you can manage different TV connections, connect a screen using a short URL and passcode, and even choose several dashboards to be displayed on a loop.