The meeting room display built for Google Calendar.
Lobby shows live room availability on an e-ink screen outside every door — reading straight from your Google Workspace calendars. Read-only. 10-minute setup. Free for 3 rooms, forever.
Buy our display for €129. Or use the one you already have.
Most room-display vendors force you to buy their hardware. We don't. Run Lobby on a TRMNL e-ink display we ship you, or point it at a cheap Android tablet, an old iPad, a Raspberry Pi, or anything with a browser.
7.5″ 800×480 e-ink. No apps. No glow. Reads like paper in any lighting. Ships anywhere we can ship.
- Up to 12 months on a single charge
- WiFi only — no Ethernet, no POE, no drilling
- Hardware you own outright. Not leased.
- Open-source firmware (fork it on GitHub)
- Ships in 5 business days (EU / US / UK)
Pi · Kindle · any browser
Got a drawer of old iPads? An Android tablet on the wall? Lobby renders as a web page — if it has a browser, it works.
- Works on iPad, Android, Fire tablet, Pi and all other devices with a browser.
- Unique display link paired with your device
- Same calendar sync. Same dashboard. Same price.
- Expect more glare & charging than e-ink
- You handle mounting & power
Switch hardware any time. Mix and match — run our e-ink in the boardroom and old iPads in the phone booths. Same account, same €0 bill up to 3 rooms.
Physical, virtual, or an overview of the lot.
Same Google Calendar sync. Same dashboard. Same pricing. Pick the surface that fits your space — or mix them.
Battery-powered TRMNL hardware beside every door. No glare, readable from 5 metres, charges once a year.
How the e-ink display worksSame view, in a browser tab on any tablet, TV, or screen you already own. No mount, no pairing — just open a URL.
How virtual displays workEvery room, on one screen. Perfect for lobbies and shared areas. Runs on e-ink or in a browser. Counts as one display.
How the overview worksWe read your calendar. We can't touch it.
Lobby only requests the permissions it needs to render a room's status. No write access. No email. No contacts. No Drive. Your IT admin can audit every scope before they approve it — and revoke it in one click.
One scope. That's it.
We request calendar.readonly for your resource calendars. That's the only Google Workspace permission Lobby ever holds.
Admin-scoped install.
A Google Workspace super-admin approves Lobby once for the resource calendars you pick. End users never see an OAuth screen.
Event data isn't stored.
We cache the next ~24h of room availability in-memory per display. We never log organiser emails, attendees, or meeting bodies. EU-hosted. GDPR-compliant.
Revoke in 30 seconds.
Remove Lobby from your Workspace Marketplace admin panel and every display shows "inactive" within a minute. No uninstall process to chase.
The exact scopes shown on Google's consent screen. Nothing hidden.
From a Google Workspace login to a live display. Under 10 minutes.
No IT ticket. No on-prem agent. No "contact sales" gate before you can try it.
Log in with your Workspace account
Your super-admin approves read-only access once. Users on the account never see a consent screen again.
Choose which resource calendars to show
Your rooms are already calendars in Workspace. Toggle the ones you want a display for. Skip the rest.
Pair the display & stick it on the wall
Scan a QR code from the dashboard to pair. Mount with Command strips. Sync is live within 60 seconds.
“The display outside our main meeting room has literally stopped the ‘is the room free?’ question. People just look at the wall now.”
Free for 3 rooms. Forever. No credit card.
Start free. Stay free if 3 rooms is enough. Pay a flat €29/month when you outgrow it — not per-room, not per-seat, not per-quote.
Up to 3 active displays. Forever.
- Google Calendar sync
- Real-time availability
- Custom room names & photos
- Buy our e-ink display or bring your own
- Read-only calendar access
- Community support
No credit card required
Unlimited displays. Unlimited rooms.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited displays & rooms
- Room overview dashboard
- Team roles & audit log
- Priority email support
- All future features & updates
Monthly or yearly. Cancel any time.
What 10 rooms costs, year one.
| Product | Hardware (10 rooms) | Software / yr | Year 1 total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lobby — our display | €1,290 | €345 | €1,635 |
| Lobby — bring your own | €0 | €345 | €345 |
| Joan | ~€3,700 | ~€1,100 | ~€4,800 |
| Robin | Their hardware | ~€4,630 | ~€4,630+ |
Competitor pricing from public sources, Apr 2026. Your mileage will vary — theirs includes a sales call.
Straight answers. The ones you'd ask on a sales call, minus the sales call.
Yes — to approve read-only access to your resource calendars, a super-admin has to click through the OAuth screen once. After that, anyone on the account can manage displays in the Lobby dashboard. Takes about 60 seconds.
For each room calendar you authorise: the next 24 hours of busy/free slots, the organiser's display name, and the meeting title. That's it. We don't read attendees, descriptions, attachments, or anything outside the rooms you pick.
No. Lobby only ever requests the calendar.readonly scope. It physically cannot create, edit, or delete events — that permission was never granted. If you want to let people book the current room from the display, that's on our roadmap and will require an additional opt-in scope. Out of the box, Lobby is display-only.
No catch. 3 displays free, no credit card, no 14-day timer, no feature wall on the rooms you run for free. We make money when you grow past 3 rooms and want the €29/month flat plan. If 3 is enough for you forever, pay €0 forever.
No. Our TRMNL e-ink display is €129 and the nicest option, but Lobby runs as a web page — any iPad, Android tablet, Kindle, Raspberry Pi, or old laptop with a browser will work. Same free tier applies.
This page is the Google Calendar story — because that's what you searched for, and because it's what we do best today. Microsoft 365 is in closed beta; join the waitlist from your dashboard settings once you sign up.
EU region (Frankfurt), on our own infrastructure. We don't share data with Google beyond the read requests themselves, and we don't sell anything to ad-tech. Vikba ApS is a Danish company; GDPR is the default, not a setting.
Up to 12 months on a single charge under typical office use — e-ink only draws power to redraw the screen, and we only redraw when a meeting actually starts or ends. Charges over USB-C in about 3 hours.
No. Lobby is built by Vikba ApS in Copenhagen. Google Workspace and Google Calendar are trademarks of Google LLC; we're a third-party app that reads their public Calendar API.
Stop losing meetings to meeting rooms.
3 displays free. Read-only calendar access. 10-minute setup.
No credit card · No sales call · Free forever