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To display iCloud events in Dashbd, you'll first need to get a link (URL) of your Apple Calendar. You can do this either on your iPhone/iPad or via www.icloud.com.

Option 1: Getting my Calendar link using an iPhone/iPad

• 1. Open the Calendar app on your iPhone/iPad
• 2. Tap the Calendars button at the bottom of the screen
• 3. Under the iCloud section, tap the Info button to the right of the calendar you'd like to display in Dashbd.
  
• 4. Scroll down and enable Public Calendar, then tap the "Share Link..." button. You can now paste this link in Dashbd by using the remote input functionality of the Apple TV.
  
• You can repeat these steps if you need to add additional calendars later.

Option 2: Getting my Calendar Url from icloud.com

• 1. On your desktop/laptop, open a browser and navigate to www.icloud.com
• 2. Click on the Calendar icon
• 3. To the left of your screen you'll see a list of your calendars. Click on the Share button next to the calendar you'd like to export.
• 4. In the Calendar Sharing popup, check the Public Calendar option. You'll see a link appear below. You may need to triple-click this link to ensure you've selected the entire url. It should look like this:
  webcal://p29-calendars.icloud.com/published/2/SDJKdshsdjJSDH...Fdsx
  
• You can now paste this link in Dashbd by using the remote input functionality of the Apple TV on an iPad or iPhone.

If you need to connect Dashbd to your Apple account using an app-specific password, follow these steps:

• 1. Go to account.apple.com and sign in with your Apple ID.

• 2. In the Security section, find "App-Specific Passwords" and click "Generate Password..."

• 3. Enter a label for the password (e.g., "Dashbd") and click "Create".
• 4. Copy the generated password. You'll only see it once, so make sure to save it securely.

• 5. Use this app-specific password when connecting Dashbd to your Apple account.

Calendar supports Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook/Azure, private Apple iCloud calendars through CalDAV, and public iCal or Webcal links. You can connect multiple sources and choose which calendars are visible.

Use an iCal/Webcal link when the calendar can be public and you only need a simple read-only feed. To keep an iCloud calendar private, choose Apple iCloud in Calendar settings and sign in with your Apple ID plus an app-specific password. Never enter your normal Apple ID password in Dashbd.

Press Play/Pause on the remote to open settings, go to Calendars, and make sure the new calendar is enabled. If it is not listed, disconnect and reconnect that calendar provider to refresh the provider's calendar list.

Yes. Open Calendar settings, select Calendars, and enable only the calendars you want to display. You can assign a custom color to each calendar and turn calendar colors on or off in the display settings.

Yes. Calendar offers list and grid layouts with Day, Next 24 hours, Week, Next 7 days, and Month periods. You can also choose the first day of the week, visible hours, number of days, 12- or 24-hour time, and whether past events remain visible.

Open the calendar display settings. Enable Merge duplicates to combine events with the same title and start/end times. You can also independently hide declined events and past events.

Open the dashboard controls with the remote and choose Add Widget. Select a widget to edit its preferences. Long-press a widget to move it; while editing the grid, use the available controls to enlarge or shrink it. Press Play/Pause while editing to access removal and grid options.

Dashbd includes widgets for clocks and dates, weather, calendars, images, countdowns and timers, notes and checklists, goals and status, QR codes, RSS and JSON API data, air quality, sun and moon information, travel time, meetings, tides, earthquakes, exchange rates, and read-only Apple Home or Google Home snapshots. Available widget types can vary by device.

Add the Image widget and enter a direct, publicly reachable image or GIF URL in its preferences. A link to a webpage, a file that requires a login, or an unsupported response cannot be displayed. The app validates the URL before saving it.

Open the Weather widget preferences, search for a city or choose the current-location option where supported, then select Celsius or Fahrenheit. The standard and Detailed views can show current conditions, hourly conditions, rain, wind, sunrise and sunset, UV, air quality, and a seven-day outlook.

Open the widget's preferences to choose its time zone, switch between 12- and 24-hour time, show or hide seconds, and use an analog or digital clock. The Date widget offers long, compact, and weekday formats, while World Clocks can show a group of cities at the same time.

Countdown and Count Up widgets let you set a title, date and time, and whether seconds are shown. Timer and Pomodoro widgets include selectable durations and start/reset controls; the Stopwatch can be started, paused, resumed, or reset from its preferences.

These widgets display values you enter in their preferences, so they are useful for manually maintained goals, metrics, habits, and status boards. For an automatically refreshed metric, use the API Value widget with a compatible public JSON endpoint.

RSS Feed needs a public HTTPS RSS or Atom URL. API Value needs a public HTTPS endpoint that returns JSON, plus a dot-separated field path such as bitcoin.usd and an optional unit. These widgets refresh every 15 minutes and cannot access sources that require a login, private network, or custom request headers.

Enter a destination name and its latitude and longitude, then optionally add starting coordinates. Choose Arrive by or Depart at, enter the time in 24-hour HH:mm format, and select the active weekdays. Without a TomTom API key the widget uses a traffic-free route estimate; adding your own key enables live-traffic routing.

Connect one or more supported calendar providers in the widget's preferences and choose the calendars it should read. All-day events are excluded by default so holidays and reminders are not treated as meetings; turn on Include all-day events if you want them considered.

Tides lets you select a supported coastal area and metres or feet. Earthquakes accepts a center latitude and longitude, search radius, minimum magnitude, and time window. Exchange Rates lets you choose the base and quote currencies or swap their direction.

No. Home widgets are read-only snapshots. You can choose an overview, room-based, or detail layout and filter the homes, rooms, devices, accessories, or values shown, but device control stays in Apple Home or Google Home.

Enter the content you want encoded, such as a website URL, plain text, or a standard Wi-Fi connection payload. Test the finished code with a phone before displaying it publicly, especially if it contains network details.

Turn on Prevent sleep in App Settings to ask the device to stay awake while Dashbd is open. Your TV, streaming device, HDMI-CEC, or power-saving settings can still switch the display off, so check those separately if the screen continues to sleep.

Yes. App Settings includes background colors and images, a system language option plus supported language overrides, and multiple themes designed to stay readable from across the room.

Countdown by Dashbd includes four remote-friendly modes. Countdown runs a duration down to zero; Count up works like a stopwatch; Time since measures from a past date and time; and Time until measures to a future date and time. Every widget can have its own title. Pro also unlocks multiple widgets, continuous viewing, and a separate background color for each widget.

Stocks Free supports up to two symbols and refreshes every 30 minutes. Pro offers refresh intervals down to one minute, up to five symbols per widget, and higher-resolution charts. The app shows the selected refresh interval and the freshness of the latest available quote. Exchange data may still be real-time, delayed, end-of-day, or unavailable depending on the instrument, exchange, region, provider, and market status.

Open the phone editor from Sticky Notes on your TV and scan its QR code. Keep the TV app open and make sure the phone and TV are on the same local network. Your phone connects directly to the temporary server on the TV, so text and position changes appear in real time. The link expires when the editing session closes; do not share it.

If the page does not open, disconnect a VPN or guest Wi-Fi and check whether the router isolates wireless devices. Some managed networks block device-to-device traffic even when both devices show the same Wi-Fi name.

Photos are a Pro feature, with one JPEG, PNG, or WebP image of up to 5 MB per note. Note text and layout remain on your TV; photos are stored separately in private Dashbd storage. Replacing or removing a photo deletes the previous private object. Existing photos stay readable after a downgrade, but a current Pro entitlement is required to upload a new one.

Calendar authentication data stays on the device and is excluded from support diagnostics. Dashbd reads calendar data to render your schedule; it does not edit your source calendars. If you voluntarily send diagnostics, the confirmation explains that event titles, times, and descriptions may be included for debugging, while authentication data is never sent.

First confirm the TV device is online and the calendar, weather location, market symbol, feed, or URL is still available. Reopen the app, verify the source is enabled in its widget settings, and reconnect the provider if its authorization or password changed. For iCloud, generate a new app-specific password if the old one was revoked.

In App Settings, choose Get support, review the diagnostic-data notice, and select Send diagnostic data. Send the resulting support code and a short description of the problem to support@dashbd.com . You can also email us without sending diagnostics.

Yes. For managed Calendar deployments, contact support@dashbd.com for the managed-install package and setup guidance.