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Version: 10.0 (latest)

Supported Displays

Version availability

These instructions describe FiestaBoard v10 (next / beta). The output-plugin setup and Divoom Pixoo 64 support are not available in stable v9. Native Apple TV and Android TV apps are coming soon; use a browser for TV viewing.

FiestaBoard shows your pages on three kinds of display: split-flap boards, LED matrices, and TVs. You design a page once, and FiestaBoard draws it the way each display needs. Split-flap boards get flaps, LED matrices get pixels, and a TV gets a life-size board on screen.

You can run several displays at once, and they don't have to be the same kind. A Vestaboard in the kitchen, a Pixoo on a desk, and a TV in the hallway can each show their own pages on their own schedules.

Which Display Do I Have?​

DisplayDevicesHow FiestaBoard connectsGuide
Split-flapVestaboard Flagship (22×6), Note (15×3), and Note arraysVestaboard's official Local API on your network, or its Cloud APISplit-flap boards
LED matrixDivoom Pixoo 64Directly over your Wi-Fi, no account or cloud neededLED matrices
TVAny TV or screen with a web browser. Native Apple TV and Android TV apps are coming soonThe TV opens a FiestaPanel address and pulls each new frameTVs

Don't have any of these yet? You can still set FiestaBoard up. Choose Skip — I'll add a display later in the setup wizard, then build and preview pages in the app. When a display arrives, add it from Displays.

Adding a Display​

The first time you open FiestaBoard, the setup wizard asks What do you want to show FiestaBoard on? Pick your display and the wizard walks you through connecting it.

To add another display later:

  1. Open Displays and click Add a display.
  2. Pick the kind of display. In v10, the three seeded display plugins are bundled with the image; installing or updating other plugins requires internet access.
  3. Fill in the display's settings screen. Most displays have a Test connection button, and some can search your network for you, like Find my Pixoo.
  4. Save. The new display appears in the board selector, ready for pages and schedules.

Each display has its own grid size, so a page made for one shape won't always fit another. The page editor's size picker lists your TVs and LED displays by name, next to the standard Vestaboard sizes, so you can make a page for a specific display in one step.

Sharing a Display With Another App​

If another app writes to a display, such as the Vestaboard app or the Divoom app, FiestaBoard puts your page back on its next update. To share a display with another app on purpose, open the display's settings under Displays and turn off Restore automatically, next to Pause sends. It's on by default. See Saving what another app put on the board for how FiestaBoard notices and how to save the other app's content.

Every Display Is a Plugin​

Behind the scenes, each kind of display is an output plugin, just like weather or transit data come from data plugins. That includes the Vestaboard. The Marketplace tab on the Displays page lists every display plugin: install one, update it, or click Add display on its card.

This is how FiestaBoard grows to support new hardware without changing FiestaBoard itself. If you build displays, you have three ways to connect one:

You want to…Use
Have FiestaBoard push each page to your deviceWrite an output plugin
Have your device pull frames from FiestaBoardOutput stream API
Read your data and render it yourselfThe REST API and the MCP server

About Vestaboard and Divoom​

FiestaBoard is an independent, open-source project. It isn't affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Vestaboard, Inc. or Divoom. "Vestaboard" and "Divoom" are trademarks of their owners. FiestaBoard talks to each device only through the interfaces its maker provides.