Onboarding

Before you can start managing devices or customizing your dashboard, your Smart Panel needs to be linked to a user account. This process ensures secure access and allows your panel to communicate with backend services.

Currently, onboarding is available only via the command line. In a future update, a web-based onboarding interface will make this even easier — stay tuned!

Registering the Owner

Run this command to register the owner of this Smart Panel:


npm run onboard yourusername secretpassword

Use a secure username and password combination — these will be used to log in to the admin interface.

If everything goes well, you’ll see:


✔ Owner account successfully registered

Optional: Seed with Demo Data

To try out the Smart Panel without having to manually create devices or dashboard pages, you can seed the system with demo data:


npm run seed

This will:

Add a few pre-configured demo devices
Set up a sample dashboard layout with pages and tiles

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This is ideal for first-time users or contributors evaluating the system.

You can still remove or override this data later using the admin interface.

Display Onboarding

Once the display service is started (as shown in the previous installation step), the Display UI will automatically boot into its default onboarding state.

There is no manual onboarding required for the display at this stage. It will:

Connect to the backend
Fetch configuration
Show a default splash screen or pairing status

Future versions will include a guided UI onboarding wizard.

What’s Next?

Jump to the next step: Device Pairing → where you’ll learn how to link your smart devices to the panel.