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Boarding Screen

The boarding screen mimics what passengers see at a real gate — flight number, gate, destination, status, weather. Use it inside the desktop app for ambience, or push it to a TV / tablet so the rest of your setup looks like an actual airport.

Where It Lives​

The boarding screen runs in the cloud. Cabby on your simulator PC streams the live state to our servers; any browser then loads the rendered screen at:

https://flyingart.dev/cabby/screen/flight/{flightId}/boarding

Or, for a permanent display in your sim room, the per-user form that always tracks your latest flight:

https://flyingart.dev/cabby/screen/user/{yourUserId}/boarding

See Passenger Screens for the full story on the two URL forms.

The desktop app already embeds the boarding screen in the Boarding tile on the flight page — that tile is just an iframe pointing at the per-flight URL. You don't need a local server, a port-forward, or a LAN setup.

boarding screen

Layout Options​

There are four boarding layouts. Each one shows the same data in a different visual style — pick whichever matches your setup or mood.

In the desktop tile, hover the screen to reveal the layout selector at the top. On a fullscreen browser, the same selector appears when you mouse near the top edge.

boarding layout selection

The layout choice is reflected in the URL (?screen=2, etc.), so once you pick one you can bookmark it on the external device.

External Display Setup​

You have two ways to put the boarding screen on a second display:

In the desktop app's boarding tile, hover and click Open in Browser. Your default browser opens the cloud URL for the active flight. Drag the window onto your secondary monitor / TV and put it fullscreen (F11 in most browsers).

2. Type the URL on Another Device​

Any device with a modern browser works — phones, tablets, smart TVs, a spare laptop. Just visit:

https://flyingart.dev/cabby/screen/flight/{flightId}/boarding

Get the {flightId} from the URL the desktop tile opens, or share it via your usual channel (Slack, email, AirDrop, QR code).

For a tablet or smart-display you want to leave running between sessions, use the per-user URL instead — it survives flight-id changes:

https://flyingart.dev/cabby/screen/user/{yourUserId}/boarding

Because the data flows through the cloud, the external device does not need to be on the same Wi-Fi network as your simulator PC.

Setup Tips​

  • Dedicated display — A small TV or old tablet in the cockpit area sells the immersion best.
  • Disable sleep — On a tablet, enable Guided Access (iOS) or a kiosk launcher (Android) so the screen doesn't dim during long flights.
  • Network blip protection — If the simulator PC briefly drops the connection, the screen shows a "Could not connect to Cabby" message after ~10 seconds and recovers automatically once the link is back.
  • Wrong flight on screen? The boarding URL is bound to a specific flightId. Start a new flight in the desktop app and re-open the URL from the tile.

The boarding screen is a small thing, but it's one of the cheapest ways to push your sim setup from "in front of a PC" to "at a gate".