Tab Rotator – Self-Healing Dashboard Display

Automatically rotate tabs on TVs and dashboards. Self-healing, schedules, and fleet config — a Revolver Tabs alternative.

Tab Rotator turns any TV or monitor into a dashboard screen that runs itself. It rotates through your Grafana, Datadog, Power BI, Salesforce, Jira or any other web dashboards, and keeps them working for weeks with nobody touching it: crashed tabs, failed loads, expired logins and frozen pages are fixed automatically. FREE • Rotate the tabs in a window, or a playlist of URLs that Tab Rotator opens and keeps open, with a duration per dashboard and an optional fresh reload just before each one is shown. • Self-healing: crashed tabs and pages that fail to load are skipped and reloaded with backoff, closed playlist tabs reopen, and rotation picks up correctly after sleep, Chrome restarts and clock changes. • Made for unattended screens: starts when the browser starts, pauses while someone uses the keyboard or mouse, and resumes when they walk away. PRO, FOR IT TEAMS (per screen: $4/month, $36/year, or $69 lifetime) • Bad-state detection: signed-out and SSO pages, "502" or "session expired" titles, and pages frozen for N minutes are reloaded, reopened, skipped or alerted on. • Alerts to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord or any webhook when a screen can't fix itself and when it recovers, plus an optional daily "all OK" heartbeat. • Fleet config: manage every screen from one JSON file in git, S3 or an internal server. Invalid files are rejected and the last good config stays. • Display hours (e.g. 07:00–18:00 Mon–Fri) with a black screen, a welcome page or another playlist outside them. • Health log of every anomaly and recovery, exportable as CSV. • PIN lock for settings and start/stop, so passers-by can't break it. Privacy: runs entirely in your browser, no data collected. No analytics, no telemetry, no account. Tab Rotator only contacts addresses you give it (your config file and your webhook) and, for Pro, the license server that checks your key. Keyboard shortcut: Alt+Shift+R (⌥⇧R on Mac) starts and stops rotation. Change it at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. You can also click the toolbar icon. SET UP A TV IN 2 MINUTES 1. Plug a mini-PC or laptop into the TV, open Chrome, and install Tab Rotator. 2. Right-click the Tab Rotator icon → Options. Choose "A playlist of URLs" and add your dashboards. 3. Tick "Start rotating when the browser starts", then click Start. 4. Optional: launch Chrome with --kiosk for a full-screen display. Full guide for Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS, including auto-login, no-sleep settings and Chrome policies: https://github.com/DuncanHedden/-chrome-extensions/blob/main/docs/kiosk-setup.md Looking for a replacement for the retired Revolver – Tabs extension? Tab Rotator keeps the simple rotation you know, and adds recovery and fleet management for screens nobody watches. Support: dmhedden123@gmail.com · https://duncanhedden.github.io/tab-rotator.html CHANGELOG 1.0.0: First public release. Rotation engine with self-healing (free); detectors, alerts, schedules, health log, settings lock and fleet config (Pro).