Why DashScene works
Most screens ask for attention. DashScene earns it by being useful first: people look for transit, weather, and timely local information.
Commercial spaces can build on that attention with their own promotions.
Useful first
Live transit and local weather give people
a real reason to look up.
Promote naturally
On commercial instances, businesses can add sales, specials, review requests, event notices, or other on-screen calls to action.
Move people to action
Pair promotions with trackable DashScene QR codes that can open a website, email, phone number, SMS, contact card, calendar item, or provide Wi‑Fi access.
Useful information is the hook. Your message is the follow-through.
DashScene is strongest when it does not behave like a pure ad screen. It gives people something genuinely helpful first — real-time transit and weather — so when a business chooses to add a promotion, it appears in a moment when the display is already being looked at. That makes DashScene especially well suited to storefront windows, cafés, office receptions, and other shared commercial spaces.
- Show live transit and local weather people already care about
- Add your own promotions on commercial displays
- Turn interest into action with QR codes
- Review aggregated business metrics such as ad impression counts, ad display time, and QR scan totals
Where DashScene fits best
DashScene feels most at home in spaces where people pause, pass by, wait, or plan the next part of their day.
Storefront windows
Give passersby something worth stopping for, then guide them to a sale, offer, booking page, or menu.
Cafés and counters
Help customers glance at transit and weather while you surface daily specials, timely offers, or neighbourhood-facing messages.
Offices and lobbies
Make reception areas and shared buildings more useful with real-time information and light-touch calls to action like visitor info, or service reminders.
Simple to get up and running
Have an old tablet? How about an old computer and screen? Chances are you already have what you need to use DashScene.
Choose your device
DashScene is designed to work on any display that can show a modern Chromimum-based web browser.
Choose your layout
Set your layout and region settings to match your space.
Pick your weather and stops
Choose a weather location and the transit stops you want to show.
Preview and pair
Test your display, create your account, pair your Dash, and finish setup.
Built for personal spaces too
Not every DashScene belongs in a storefront or public space.
Personal setups bring the same useful live transit and local weather experience to homes and private spaces, without advertisements.
Before you get started
DashScene centers on real-time transit and local weather in a single display format designed for homes, offices, storefronts, and other shared spaces. In commercial deployments, businesses can also include their own promotions and calls to action.
Yes. Personal DashScene instances are private and do not show advertisements.
Commercial promotions can use DashScene-generated QR codes for a website, email, phone number, SMS, contact card, calendar item, or Wi‑Fi connection. Scan tracking applies where the QR type supports it; Wi‑Fi QR codes are not trackable.
Commercial reporting is designed to be useful without being invasive, giving businesses clear performance totals like ad impressions, display time, and QR scans.
Yes. DashScene offers two ways to explore: live demos with pre-configured Dashes, and a setup wizard that lets you build and preview your own Dash before signing up.
DashScene is currently available in Canada except Québec. Weather coverage is available nationwide within supported regions, while transit support depends on the agencies and regions DashScene currently supports.
DashScene currently supports transit in and around Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Markham, Mississauga, Vaughan, and Charlottetown, with broader support in Ontario through GO Transit and nationally through VIA Rail Canada.
Supported agencies currently include Calgary Transit, Edmonton Transit Service, TransLink, BC Transit (Victoria), Halifax Transit, OC Transpo, STO, Toronto Transit Commission, Union Pearson Express, T3 Transit, GO Transit, and VIA Rail Canada.
The setup wizard lets you express interest, submit your transit agency, and sign up for a one-time notification if DashScene becomes available in your area.
Transit support depends on agencies making schedule and real-time data publicly available. In some areas, that data is not yet published in a form DashScene can support.
If DashScene is not available in your area yet, you can submit your transit agency through the setup wizard and sign up for a one-time notification when support becomes available. If you’d like to help move things forward, you can also encourage your local agency or municipal government to publish GTFS Static and GTFS Realtime data for public use.