Community Meters Themes: Add, Remix and Publish

Community themes are Meters dashboards that ScreenTune owners made in the dashboard builder and published. They are free. Anyone can browse them in the community gallery. Remixing one is free with an email. Adding one to a car, and publishing your own, needs ScreenTune (from $69, with Meters included).

A community theme reaches the car the same way your own designs do: it goes on your car’s Meters list, and the car gets it with your next ScreenTune package.

Browse and preview

The gallery lists published themes with their name, their publisher’s @username, and how many cars added or remixed them (a new theme shows neither).

• New sorts by the latest publish; Popular by how many cars added the theme.
• Search matches theme names and usernames.
• Select a @username to see only that person’s themes.
• A TrackTune tag marks a theme with TrackTune widgets. They need ScreenTune 1.2.0 or later on the car (TrackTune comes with ScreenTune).

Design a dashboard at the top of the gallery opens the dashboard builder on a new design, free with an email.

A theme’s page plays it on the same recorded drive the builder uses, from the point where the car is moving. Spirited runs a lap past the redline; a theme with a lap or launch timer opens on it. The unit toggles show the theme in mph or km/h and °F or °C, except where the design fixes a unit on the car. The page shows when the theme was published or last Updated. Version history lists every version with its date and notes, and Preview this one shows an older version. A theme with TrackTune widgets says Uses TrackTune. under its buttons.

Add a theme to your car

1. On the theme’s page, select Add to my car.
2. With more than one car on your account, choose the car under For first.
3. The page answers with what happened, and a link to My themes. The theme goes first on your car’s list, so the car opens on it after your next update.

Signed out, Add to my car opens a sheet: community themes are free with ScreenTune.

• I own it: sign in signs you in and brings you back to the page, which adds the theme.
• Buy ScreenTune opens the order options on the ScreenTune page. This browser remembers the theme for 30 days, and adds it the first time you open My ScreenTune with an active license, which is after you set up your car. It reaches the car with your next package, not the first one.

Signed in with a free account, the button reads Add to my car with Needs ScreenTune, and opens the same sheet. Buy ScreenTune works the same way when you buy with the email you are signed in with; Other email? Sign in is for a ScreenTune order under another email.

Answer	Meaning
Added to your car. It’s first on your list, so your car opens on it after your next update.	The theme is in your library and first on your car’s list. The button reads ✓ On your car.
Your car holds 20 themes. Replace one with Track Day:	The list is full. Select the theme to swap out, shown as pictures, and the new one takes its place at the top. Cancel keeps it in your library only.

Once the theme is on your car and the car doesn’t have it yet, Send to my car beside ✓ On your car requests the USB package, as Get an update does (send your themes to the car).

An added theme stays on the version you added. When its publisher publishes a new version, its card in My library reads Update available · See what changed · Update. See what changed opens the theme’s version notes. The car never changes version on its own: it gets the new one with the next package after you select Update.

Remix a theme

Remix copies the version you are looking at into your library as a design of your own and opens it in the builder. The copy is yours to change. Remixing is free: signed out, Remix asks for your email first, and the remix is saved to your designs. An email that has an account already gets a six-digit code to enter. The builder shows Remix of Base Track by @username under the top bar, linked to the original while it is published, and the gallery shows the same credit if you publish the remix.

Publish a design

Publishing needs a ScreenTune license that is active, on the email you design with. In the builder, select Publish in the top bar (in ⋯ on a phone). Unsaved changes save first.

Without ScreenTune, Publish opens Share with ScreenTune instead. The design is already saved to your email.

• Buy ScreenTune opens car setup, where you choose your car’s options and pay. Buy with the same email and your designs, this one included, are in the library. My themes then offers Ready to publish ? with Publish.
• Already own it? Sign in signs in with the email on your ScreenTune order and brings the design you are working on with you.
• Keep designing closes the sheet. The design stays in My designs.

If you bought ScreenTune with the email but this browser signed in without a code, Publish first asks for the six-digit code emailed to you.

1. Choose a public name the first time. The rules: 3–24 letters, numbers, - or _, starting and ending with a letter or number. It shows on everything you publish. The dialog checks each name as you type, and refuses names that are taken, reserved (such as admin or miatafy) or not allowed.
2. Describe it. The name is the design’s name (24 characters, as on the car). A remix still called what its original is called must get a name of its own: the field reads Give your remix its own name, and Publish stays off until the name differs. The new name is saved with the design when you publish. The description is optional, up to 500 characters of plain text. From the second version on, What changed adds up to 500 characters of notes for that version.
3. Confirm the rights. Tick I made this, or have the right to share it, and anyone may use it for free. For a remix the box reads I changed this remix of Base Track by @username, and anyone may use it for free. If the design uses your own background picture, the dialog says Your background picture will be public with this theme.
4. Select Publish. The theme is live at once: is live in the gallery, with View for its page and Copy link for its address on miatafy.com.

The public name is part of the same dialog the first time you publish. If the name you chose is taken by the time you publish, the dialog says so and nothing is published.

A theme’s page has two links. Copy link copies the page’s address. Copy link for social posts copies an api.miatafy.com/share/meters/… address that shows the theme’s own picture and name when pasted into a chat or post, then opens the same page.

A design that can’t go to a car isn’t published: the dialog lists its problems as Checks does, and selecting one selects its widget. Each publish makes a new numbered version that never changes afterwards. Publishing the same design unchanged answers This version is already published. You can publish 10 times an hour and 50 times a day.

Manage what you published

Your published themes (/car/meters/published/, linked from My themes and from the publish dialog) lists each theme with its status, when it was last updated and how many cars added it.

• Publish changes opens the design in the builder on its publish dialog, for a new version.
• View opens its page in the gallery.
• The ⋯ menu holds Edit description, which changes the page without a new version, and Withdraw from the gallery. Withdrawing asks first: the cars that added the theme keep it, at the version they chose. Put back in the gallery republishes it at the same version.

Deleting the design from your library leaves the published theme up.

When a theme leaves the gallery

A theme its publisher withdraws, or that Miatafy removes, disappears from the gallery and its page reads This theme is no longer published. Libraries and cars that already have it keep their pinned version; its card says No longer published or Removed from the community gallery. Nobody can add or remix it until it is back.

To report a theme, select Report this theme on its page. It opens an email to support@miatafy.com with the theme’s ID filled in.

Change your public name

Your published themes shows your public name with Change. A name can change once every 30 days. The old name stays reserved for you for 30 days, so nobody else can take it in the meantime, and you can take it back.