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Back up your board

Your dashboard’s configuration lives on the board. A factory reset, a storage wipe, or a board swap loses it unless the configuration has been saved first.

Take the backup

Section titled “Take the backup”
  1. On the board: gear → Setup code → Show QR of current config.
  2. Scan the QR with your phone. It opens a page holding the entire configuration — every widget, setting and arrangement.
  3. Keep that page: bookmark it, or send the link to yourself.

Do this before the reset, not after — there is nothing to recover from a wiped board.

Restore from the backup

Section titled “Restore from the backup”

Open the saved page, tap Get my setup code, and enter the six characters on the board (welcome screen → I have a setup code). The dashboard is restored in full.

Alternative: carry the configuration in the board’s address

Section titled “Alternative: carry the configuration in the board’s address”

The same saved page has a second button, Get signage URL. It produces a signage address with the whole configuration embedded in it. If whoever administers the board sets that as the signage address, the board rebuilds its dashboard by itself after a wipe — the address is the backup, applied automatically.

This is how non-touch devices are configured, and it suits any board that should recover without attention.