Staff room screen with Deputy rota and Slack notices

Before we connect it.

Where this is useful

Useful for restaurants, hotels, shops, gyms and warehouses where teams start shifts at different times and not everyone checks their phone. A sensible first version shows today’s shifts and a handful of notices on one screen, then adds things like training dates or the week’s priorities.

What we need to connect

1. 01Deputy API access to published rosters for the location, plus the areas or roles you want shown.
2. 02A Slack channel for announcements and a simple convention for how long each notice should stay up.
3. 03A Yodeck player and screen in a staff-only area, and agreement on what information is suitable to display.

What needs careful handling

Even first names and shift times are personal data, so the screen sits where customers can’t see it and anyone can ask to be left off. Announcements are sometimes posted by mistake, so only messages from named people are shown, and deleting a message removes it from the screen. Wi-Fi in back rooms can be patchy, so the player keeps showing the last version it received, with the time it was updated, rather than going blank.

Questions people ask.