Overview
LTNG Manager is the control room for a digital menu-board platform we designed and built end to end. Staff manage products, prices, and serving options in one web dashboard; the moment they save, the change pushes over a live WebSocket to every paired screen on the floor. No exporting, no re-uploading, no walking a USB stick to a TV.
The platform has three surfaces on one backend. The Manager is where the menu lives and gets edited. The boards run as a packaged LG webOS app installed from the LG Content Store — each TV pairs once with a board ID, then renders its assigned menu fullscreen and keeps itself alive, reconnecting automatically if the network drops. An iOS companion reads the same catalog so the menu travels off the wall and into a phone.
It’s built to run a real venue, not a demo. The flagship deployment drives eight screens at Moksa Barrelhouse and Brewing, with per-screen crash reporting so a problem names the physical TV, on-the-fly layout control (columns, header, auto-scroll, pinned groups) tuned from the URL, and a catalog that handles the messy real-world cases — like a “One Size” pour that should show a price and no size label.
The whole thing is deliberately generic: pairing is by board ID, so one platform serves many brands without any of them seeing another’s menu. Menu design and layout logic live on the server, so a visual tweak ships to every TV at once without touching the app on the glass. It’s the same “management app behind the TV menus” that powers our work for Moksa Brewing and Moksa Barrelhouse — productized so any bar, brewery, or restaurant can run their boards the same way.