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The Meeting Room card

Theatrium ProWorks with: Any Apple TVAbout 5 minutes to set up

An availability board for a meeting room: AVAILABLE or IN USE, what is on now, when it ends, and what is next.

What it shows

The room's name, a large AVAILABLE or IN USE, the current booking and when it ends ("ends in 45 min · then free"), a strip of the working day from 8 am to 6 pm with bookings drawn as blocks and a marker for now, and an UP NEXT list. On a day with no bookings it reads Available "for the rest of the day".

It was built for a screen on a meeting-room wall, and it is the centerpiece of the Boardroom theme, but it fits any wide or tall panel on any theme.

Before you start

Bookings come from a calendar's .ics address, the same kind as The Calendar card uses. A meeting room usually has a calendar of its own. Get its address:

Google Calendar: the room calendar's settings › Integrate calendar › Secret address in iCal format.
Microsoft 365 / Outlook: the room calendar › Shared calendars › Publish a calendar › ICS link.
Apple iCloud: share the calendar as a public calendar; change webcal:// to https://.
Home Assistant: no link needed; the card reads Home Assistant's calendars if no address is set.

Only timed bookings count. All-day entries are ignored.

Add the card

Every card is added the same way. If you have done this before, skip ahead.

On the dashboard, move to a card you want to replace. Press and hold the center of the remote's pad for about a second. The card dims and a Modify button appears on it.
Hold the center of the pad on the card you want to change.
Press the center once to choose Modify. The Choose a card screen opens.
The Choose a card screen. The list down the left side narrows the cards by group.
On the left, choose Information, then move right and choose Meeting Room. (You can also leave the list on All and scroll; cards are in alphabetical order inside each group.)
Name the room, and choose its bookings: type the room's name (blank means "Boardroom") and paste the room calendar's .ics address. Leave the address blank and the card uses the calendar from Settings › Connections, or your Home Assistant calendars.
Finish with the Add to Dashboard button (on some cards it reads Add Meeting Room). You return to the dashboard with the new card in place.

Good to know

Display only. Times follow the Apple TV's clock and time zone; the strip is fixed to 8 am to 6 pm.
Each Meeting Room card can have its own calendar, so two rooms can sit on one dashboard.
A calendar that cannot be reached leaves the board empty rather than showing somebody else's meetings.