DEPARTURE BOARDS
Recreate the classic Solari departure board for trains, buses, ferries, or flights on any display. Fork a ready-made template, connect a live schedule feed, and let destinations, times, and platforms flip exactly like the boards that made split-flap famous.
A school dismissal board that counts down to the next pickup wave — 2:45, 2:55, 3:05, and 3:15 — while a blue ticker tracks bus A loading, bus C waiting, and the car line, above a "keep pickup cards visible" reminder. Front offices aim it out a lobby window or at the parent loop so families know exactly when their wave is called.
An airport gate board for gate B12 showing flight 204 to Chicago boarding and flight 318 to Denver on time, with a boarding-closes countdown and live Chicago weather underneath. Built for travel-agency lobbies, aviation-themed bars, and event check-ins that want real departure-hall atmosphere. The gate number, both flight rows, and every status word are editable after forking.
A classic split-flap train departure board listing morning services to New Haven, Grand Central, Stamford, and Bridgeport with time, destination, and track columns. A next-train widget counts down to the 08:15 and rolls through five departures in sequence. Hang it in a station cafe, a model railway room, or a transit-themed office for the authentic Solari atmosphere.
A parking availability board showing 128 open spaces and per-level fill bars — level 2 at 78%, level 3 at 42% — above a rotating entry ticker with gate-tap, EV-spot, and height-limit notes. Drivers at the ramp get an instant read on where to park before they commit. Facilities teams at venues, hospitals, and offices run it on any TV at the garage entrance.
A rideshare pickup board that rotates zone status — zone A open, zone B overflow, taxis lane 3 — beside a green six-minute wait counter and a fixed "meet drivers at the blue awning" instruction line. Hotels, arenas, and campuses hang it at the curb or exit doors so guests find their ride without a staffer repeating directions all night.
A ferry terminal board that counts down to the next sailing, rotates dock assignments, and pulls live wind speed from the Open-Meteo API so passengers see conditions before boarding. Sailings at 07:40, 08:20, 09:05, and 10:00 cycle through the next-sailing widget while a notices row flips boarding rules like "bikes board first." Suited to terminal waiting rooms, harbor offices, and waterfront restaurants.
A bus arrivals board that cycles routes 12 downtown, 19 crosstown, and 42 express, counts down to the next bus, and shows live Seattle weather above an orange service-alerts ticker. Built for transit lobbies, campus shuttle stops, and apartment buildings near a stop. Alerts like "use rear doors" and "detour on pine" flip through on their own dedicated row.
Recreating the Solari departures board, feed and all
Get the columns right and the board reads instantly: time, destination, platform or gate, status — in that order, one row per service. Eight to twelve rows suits a concourse screen viewed from meters away; a platform display showing just the next two departures wants three enormous rows instead. Fork a departure template and set the grid in the editor; the flip animation renders at 60 FPS in browser canvas, so even a full board of churning rows stays smooth on a standard smart TV.
Wire it to a real timetable with a repeater over your feed. Point the live data widget at any JSON endpoint — a GTFS-realtime bridge, an operations API, or a hosted file your scheduling tool writes — map fields to each column, and rows flip to new times and statuses in under a second, so DELAYED and BOARDING land the moment the feed says so. Live data sources are part of the Business plan. Offices and venues running a shuttle or arrivals list can skip the feed and edit rows by hand from the dashboard.
Cover departures, arrivals, and disruption from one screen with scenes: departures for 40 seconds, arrivals for 20, service alerts for 10, each duration set once and rotating unattended. Rolling out to several stops means forking the same template per location and adjusting routes and platform labels — every board still hangs off one dashboard, so a network-wide alert typed once flips onto every screen in real time, exactly when passengers most need the board to be right.
- 01Train and bus departure listings
- 02Ferry and flight arrival boards
- 03Platform and gate assignments
- 04Live delay and status updates
- 05Authentic Solari flip animation
Can I feed it a real transit schedule?
Yes. Point a data connector at any JSON schedule or API and rows of destinations, times, and statuses populate and update live.
Does it handle multiple rows like a real board?
It does. Repeater connectors render each service as its own row, flipping in new entries as the feed changes.
Is this just for transit operators?
Not at all — offices, venues, and homes fork it for arrivals, shuttles, or any timed list, all running in a TV browser without hardware.
What does a live departure board cost to run?
Boards are free to build and preview. Going live starts at $8/mo on Starter for one screen, and the live JSON feeds a real timetable needs come with the Business plan at $79/mo, which also lifts the display limit for multi-screen sites.
Can one screen alternate between departures and arrivals?
Yes. Build departures and arrivals as separate scenes with their own durations — say 40 seconds and 20 — and the display rotates automatically. Add a third scene for service alerts and the loop runs unattended, with any change pushed live from the dashboard.
START FROM A TEMPLATE
Pick a board, customize the copy and data, and open it in a supported Chrome or Edge player.