Pair your display

Setup moves your FlightWall from its own temporary Wi-Fi network onto your home network. It takes a few minutes and you only do it once per display.

Before you start

Install the app from the App Store or Google Play.
Stand next to the display. A first connection cannot be done remotely, because your phone has to join the display's own Wi-Fi network. After setup you can change settings from anywhere.
Have your home Wi-Fi password ready. The display needs a 2.4 GHz network with WPA2 security and cannot use 5 GHz, WPA3, or any network with a browser sign-in page. See Wi-Fi and network requirements.
Stay near your router, so the display can see your network when it scans.

The app asks for two permissions during setup and uses them only here. Camera reads the QR code on the panel. Location is required on Android before an app may join a Wi-Fi network. On iOS you also get system prompts to join the display's network and to allow local network access. Accept both.

Power on the display

Plug the display in with the supplied power adapter. Use that adapter rather than a spare USB charger. An underpowered supply makes the display reboot part way through setup.

On first power-up the panel cycles through setup screens: a QR code, the display's Wi-Fi name and password, and short instructions. The Wi-Fi name looks like Flightwall-ABC123.

Run setup in the app

Open the app and add a FlightWall from the home screen.
Read the three steps the app lists: 1. Connect to Display, 2. Configure Wi-Fi, 3. Personalize Settings. Select Continue.
Grant the permissions the app asks for.
On Connect to your Flightwall, scan the QR code on the panel.

Stand back before you scan. Phone cameras struggle to read a QR code on an LED panel from close up, and Android cameras need more distance than iPhone cameras. Step back until the whole code fits in frame.
Wait while the app joins the display. Do not leave the screen. This can take up to 30 seconds.
The app verifies the display, then shows Connect to your network. Pick your home Wi-Fi from the list and enter its password. Open networks need no password.
Select Connect and wait for Provisioned.

The display restarts and may install a software update. When it comes back, it appears on the app home screen and starts showing flights.

If the QR code will not scan

The setup screen rotates between views, so the code can disappear before your camera locks on.

Power-cycle the display, then try again while the QR code is on screen.
Photograph the panel while the code is visible and scan the photo from your camera roll.
Switch to the Enter Manually tab and type the device code and password instead.

For manual entry, the device code is the part of the Wi-Fi name after Flightwall-, so Flightwall-ABC123 has the code ABC123. Newer displays use an eight-character password such as ABCD1234. Older displays use Flight- followed by the code. Photograph the panel and read from the photo, because some characters look alike on an LED grid. 0 and O are the common pair.

If your Wi-Fi is missing from the list

Select Don't see your Wi-Fi? in the app for the same checks:

Stay near your router so the network appears during the scan.
Confirm the network is 2.4 GHz. The display cannot see 5 GHz networks.
Restart the display and scan again.
Enter the network name manually if it still does not appear.

Set up the same display on a second phone

You do not have to reconfigure anything. On the second phone, add the FlightWall the same way, by scanning the QR code or connecting manually. The app pulls the display's existing configuration down instead of starting over. More than one person can manage a display this way.

Move a display to a different network

Open the display in the app, go to System, and use Change Wi-Fi Network. This removes the display from the app and returns it to setup, so you run the steps above again. See System and device information.

Setup that fails part way through is covered in Setup and Wi-Fi problems.