MarqueeAmbient now-playing display for Jellyfin spaces

Install with Docker Compose

Marquee listens on port 3000:

services:
  marquee:
    image: getcoral/marquee:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on: [jellyfin]
    ports:
      - "3004:3000"
    environment:
      MARQUEE_DATA_DIR: /data
      JELLYFIN_URL: http://jellyfin:8096
      JELLYFIN_API_KEY: ${JELLYFIN_API_KEY}
      JELLYFIN_USER_ID: ${JELLYFIN_USER_ID}
    volumes:
      - ./marquee-data:/data
    networks: [coral]

Then point a screen at it. Anything that runs a browser full-screen will do — a Raspberry Pi behind a wall-mounted monitor, an old tablet propped on a shelf, a smart TV’s built-in browser, a spare laptop. On a Pi, Chromium in kiosk mode is the usual approach:

chromium-browser --kiosk --noerrdialogs --disable-infobars http://your-nas:3004

You can also run it straight from the source checkout if you would rather build locally:

docker build -t marquee .
docker run -p 3000:3000 \
  -e JELLYFIN_URL=http://your-nas:8096 \
  -e JELLYFIN_API_KEY=your-key \
  -e JELLYFIN_USER_ID=your-user-id \
  marquee

Presence, not control

Every other module in Coral is something you use. Marquee is something you glance at.

That single decision shapes all of it. There are no menus, no navigation, no settings surfaced on screen and nothing to click, because the screen it runs on is usually three metres away on a wall and nobody is holding a remote for it. What it shows is what is true right now: what is playing, who is next in the queue, and what landed in the library recently.

It is read-only against Jellyfin. Marquee never starts a session, never controls playback and never writes server state, so it cannot interfere with what someone is watching in the other room.

The obvious pairing is with Aurora on the TV and Marquee on a second screen — one to choose with, one to look at. At a party, running it next to Encore means guests can see what is playing and what they queued without asking.

What Marquee is not

It is not a dashboard. It will not show you disk usage, transcoding load, or server health — for that you want Grafana or one of the homelab dashboard projects, and they do it far better.

It is not a client either. There is no browsing and no playback in Marquee. If you point it at a TV expecting to watch something, you want Aurora.

Marquee is marked MVP Built: the shape is right and it runs, but it is one of the younger modules in the reef and there is more ahead of it than behind.