---
title: "Deploy Tronbyt Server | (Just Updated) Tidbyt Smart Display Server, Claimed On First Boot"
description: "Self-hosted Tidbyt display server, your account seeded before first boot"
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/tronbyt-server-or-just-updated-tidbyt-sm
---

# Deploy Tronbyt Server | (Just Updated) Tidbyt Smart Display Server, Claimed On First Boot

Self-hosted Tidbyt display server, your account seeded before first boot

**[Deploy Tronbyt Server | (Just Updated) Tidbyt Smart Display Server, Claimed On First Boot on Railway](https://railway.com/template/tronbyt-server-or-just-updated-tidbyt-sm)**

Machine-readable deploy manifest (JSON, validated by TemplateCI): https://railway.com/deploy/tronbyt-server-or-just-updated-tidbyt-sm/manifest.json

- **Creator:** SuperSlowSloth
- **Category:** Other

## Template content

### tronbyt

- **Image:** ghcr.io/bon5co/tronbyt-railway:2.3.4
- **Health check:** /health
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Tronbyt Server on Railway

Tronbyt Server is the self-hosted brain for a Tidbyt or Tronbyt smart display: it renders the
apps, holds the schedule, and serves each device the next frame. This template runs it as one
service on a persistent volume, and — unlike a stock deploy — the instance already belongs to
you the first time its public URL answers a request.

## About Hosting Tronbyt Server

Tronbyt ships as a single static Go binary with an embedded Pixlet renderer and a SQLite
database, so hosting it is mostly about two things: keeping the database and the rendered
frames on storage that survives a redeploy, and making sure nobody else claims the account
system before you do.

Both are handled here. The volume mounts at `/app/data`, where the SQLite database, the
system apps checkout and the per-device WebP frames all live. The image is
`ghcr.io/bon5co/tronbyt-railway`, built from the pinned upstream release, and its entrypoint
registers your account against a loopback-only server *before* the public port is ever
served — so the window where a stranger could register first does not exist. The same
credential is re-applied from the environment on every boot, which also gives you a way back
in if you lose it, since upstream exposes no password reset in the UI.

A healthcheck on `/health` keeps Railway from routing traffic during first boot, when the
server clones roughly 200 MB of community apps into the volume.

## Why Deploy Tronbyt Server?

- **Your display, your server.** No dependence on the Tidbyt cloud remaining online or free.
- **Claimed on first boot.** `TRONBYT_ADMIN_USERNAME` and `TRONBYT_ADMIN_SECRET` are required;
  the container refuses to start without them rather than booting an unowned instance.
- **Registration closed by default.** `ENABLE_USER_REGISTRATION` is `false` here; upstream's
  Go config defaults it to `true`.
- **Pinned upstream release**, so a redeploy replays the version you tested rather than
  whatever `latest` points at that day.
- **Small.** Roughly 70 MB of RAM at idle, comfortably inside the smallest Railway plan.

## Common Use Cases

- Driving a Tidbyt, Tronbyt, Pixoticker or Matrix Portal display from your own infrastructure
- Running community Pixlet apps — transit times, weather, market tickers, build status
- Serving several displays in a home or office from one scheduler

## Dependencies for Tronbyt Server

- A volume for `/app/data` (database, apps checkout, rendered frames)
- Outbound network access on first boot, to clone the system apps repository

### Deployment Dependencies

- Upstream project: [tronbyt/server](https://github.com/tronbyt/server)
- Image source: [bon5co/tronbyt-railway](https://github.com/bon5co/tronbyt-railway)
- Community apps: [tronbyt/apps](https://github.com/tronbyt/apps)


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