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TV Display Mode

OpenFlight serves a fullscreen-friendly browser display for tablets, TV browsers, or a Chrome tab cast to a Chromecast.

Setup

  1. Start OpenFlight as usual:

    scripts/start-kiosk.sh

  2. Find the OpenFlight host on your LAN — its hostname or its IP address.

  3. From another laptop, tablet, or TV browser, open:

    http://<openflight-host>:8080/display

  4. For Chromecast, open that page in Chrome and use Chrome's built-in Cast feature to cast the tab.

Prefer the hostname over the IP

Raspberry Pi OS broadcasts its hostname over mDNS (Avahi), so http://openflight.local:8080/display keeps working even after the Pi's DHCP lease expires and it returns on a different address. A bookmarked IP breaks unless you reserved it on your router.

Set the name in Raspberry Pi Imager's Hostname field when you flash the card. The default is raspberrypi, i.e. raspberrypi.local.

The viewing device has to support mDNS. macOS, iOS, Windows 10+, and most Linux desktops do — some smart-TV browsers do not, so use the IP there.

Limitations

This is browser and tab casting only. OpenFlight does not include native Cast SDK support.

If the display is on a different port, pass --web-port and use that port in the URL — see running & modes.