Help › Screens

An iPad or Android tablet

An old tablet makes a fine kitchen wall. iPads need iPadOS 14 or later; the first iPad Air and the iPad mini 2 and 3 stop at iOS 12 and cannot run Hestia.

1. On the tablet, open hestiacalendar.com/tv in Safari or Chrome.
2. Add it to the home screen. Safari: the share button (□↑) → Add to Home Screen. Chrome: ⋮ → Add to Home screen or Install app.
3. Open Hestia from its new icon. It opens full screen and shows a code. On your phone, open hestiacalendar.com/link and type it. From then on the icon opens your wall.

Keep it awake

• Keep it plugged in.
• iPad: Settings → Display & Brightness → Auto-Lock → Never. iPads before iPadOS 16.4 cannot be kept awake by a web page, so this setting is the only way.
• Android: Settings → Display → Screen timeout at its longest, or in Developer options turn on Stay awake (stays on while charging).
• To stop little hands leaving the wall on an iPad, use Guided Access: Settings → Accessibility → Guided Access, then triple-click the top or home button while the wall is open.

More guides

• A TV or any screen with a web browser
  Smart TVs, Fire TV, monitors with a computer: pair once with a code.
• Chromecast and Google TV
  What works today, and the cast button that is on its way.
• A Raspberry Pi on a monitor
  A Pi 3 or newer opening the wall full screen on every start.
• Google Calendar
  Show your Google calendars and add events from the wall.
• Apple Calendar and other calendar links
  iCloud, school and team calendars by their iCal address.
• An iCloud shared album
  A live album: photos added to it appear on the wall by themselves.
• Photos from Google Photos
  Pick photos in Google Photos and Hestia copies them to your wall.
• Framing photos
  Move and zoom any photo, choose which ones show, and how often.