Telescreen is the family wall calendar that stays in your house. Calendar, chores, weather and dinner on one screen. No subscription, no cloud account, no telemetry.
Built for a tablet on the wall, readable from across the kitchen.
Google and iCloud side by side, colored per person. Add, edit and repeat events right from the wall, and they land in your real calendars.
Daily, weekly, every other week, rotating, or "either of us". Tap to complete, and see everyone's progress at a glance. No points, no streaks, no nagging.
Weather, driving times, Spotify now-playing, and this week's meals and shopping list from PantryPal. Every widget is off until you turn it on.
Light and dark themes, big touch targets, and a screen that stays awake. After a couple of idle minutes it returns to today. It even dresses up for the holidays.
Docker is the only requirement.
Add it to the home screen and it runs like an app.
Google or iCloud. Name the household, add the people, done.
Same app either way. We still don't watch.
You run it, you own it. Nothing leaves your house. Needs Docker and a private network such as Tailscale.
git clone https://github.com/dev-arekusandoru/telescreen.git cd telescreen && cp .env.example .env docker compose up -d --build
We run it for you. No Docker, no setup, a few dollars a month. No analytics, no ads, and nobody reads your calendar.
We store only your email, and only to tell you when hosted launches. Reply to any email to be removed.
It's MIT licensed, so read the code. There is no analytics and no telemetry. The optional widgets call their own services (Open-Meteo, Google Routes, Spotify) only when you turn them on.
Self-hosting is free forever. A hosted version is coming, and it will cost a few dollars a month.
You need a private network and HTTPS, which keeps the screen awake and makes it installable. Tailscale is the easiest way to get both. Telescreen should never be exposed to the public internet.
It's built for an iPad or tablet in landscape, installed as a PWA. Phones get a narrower layout, and any desktop browser works for setup.
No. It reads and writes your existing calendars, which stay where they are. Telescreen keeps a cache so the wall keeps working when a provider is slow.
One household. It's tuned for two to four people.