https://signagetube.com/get-started/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/drQ265hw5uQ/hqdefault.jpgHow to Set Up Your First Digital Signage ScreenGot a TV on the wall and nothing on it yet? Here's how to get your first content playing on it today. We sign in, pick the hardware and install the player on an Android TV device, a Google TV device or a Windows PC. A one time code pairs the screen with your account. Then we build a playlist, send ihttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/drQ265hw5uQ702026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/my-downloads-signagetube-20/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jva119SflMk/hqdefault.jpgHow to Pair a Digital Signage Player with SignageTubeInstalled the player app and not sure how to link it to your account? Pairing takes about a minute. On Android TV and Google TV the player app is on Google Play. In the browser we open Players, click Add Player and generate a pairing code, which works for fifteen minutes. We type the server address https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jva119SflMk372026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/supported-file-types/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IJdsvrnc4FI/hqdefault.jpgHow to Build a Digital Signage PlaylistPictures, a video, a PDF and last week's PowerPoint: can they all play on one screen, in order? Yes, in one playlist. We open Playlists, click New Playlist and add files of every kind to the same list. Image Duration sets how long each picture stays up, and you can add a web page with its own time. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/IJdsvrnc4FI422026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/digital-signage-software/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vmun8_jT8jQ/hqdefault.jpgHow to Assign Content to Your Digital Signage ScreensBuilt a playlist, an overlay or a ticker and wondering how it gets onto the right TV? You assign it with a schedule. We click New Schedule, choose Playlist, Overlay or Ticker as the content type and pick the player or the group. Then we set the dates and hours and create the schedule. Directory showhttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vmun8_jT8jQ312026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/digital-signage-software/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EoCljUTdQnk/hqdefault.jpgSend Now or Schedule? Two Ways to Update Your ScreensShould new content go on the screen right away, or start and stop by itself next week? There's a button for each. The send icon plays content on a display from its next sync, and Interrupt current playlist makes it play straight away. Watch the box called Clear current and future schedules: it's tichttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EoCljUTdQnk372026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/digital-signage-software/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yo-O3nGBIlA/hqdefault.jpgHow to Add a Logo Overlay to Your Digital SignageWant your logo in the corner of every screen without editing every slide and video? Add it once as an overlay. An overlay sits on top of your playlist. We click New Overlay, pick a ready made logo position or upload a transparent PNG, and add text with its own look and spacing. Then we assign it to https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/yo-O3nGBIlA352026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/digital-signage-software/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bsET18Wmu34/hqdefault.jpgHow to Add a Scrolling Ticker to Your Digital SignageShort news, a welcome line or today's numbers running along the bottom of the screen? That's a ticker. We click Add Ticker, name it and type the text. A ticker can hold fixed text, variables, a news feed, or JSON or XML data. The live preview shows how it looks, and Appearance and Behavior change thhttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/bsET18Wmu34332026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/live-pages/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vBVfFIOPGAw/hqdefault.jpgMake a Digital Menu Board with SignageTube Live PagesNo designer, and a menu that changes every week? Start from a ready made screen and just fill in the dishes. We open Live Pages, click New Live Page and search for a menu. We pick a layout, add the entries and check the preview. Then we save it and add it to a playlist with its own duration.https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vBVfFIOPGAw322026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/data-pages/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X9oa-_x0VPk/hqdefault.jpgHow to Show Your Own Data on Digital Signage ScreensTired of retyping numbers onto a screen every morning? Point the screen at the data and let it keep up. Data Pages work in three steps: connections feed data tables, and data tables feed Data Pages. A connection can be a database, a web feed, an Excel or CSV file, or data you type in. We upload a sahttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/X9oa-_x0VPk522026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/blog/digital-signage-using-powerpoint-that-actually-scales/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rMd5MkzRJyc/hqdefault.jpgSynced Folders: Keep PowerPoint Files Updated on Windows PlayersRunning real PowerPoint on a screen and need the files behind it kept current on the PC? Synced folders do that. Synced folders keep files up to date on Windows players, for native PowerPoint with dynamically driven content, not presentations turned into movies. We click New folder, give it a name ahttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rMd5MkzRJyc312026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/digital-signage-software/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DMrAX67lYNw/hqdefault.jpgDigital Signage Player Settings ExplainedScreen mounted in portrait, or should it go dark at night? Each player has its own settings for that. We open a player card and its settings. Status shows the last heartbeat, the operating system and the player version, Display rotates the picture and Time sets the hours the display is active. Playbhttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/DMrAX67lYNw382026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/signagetube-enterprise/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JjVZq-NM_lw/hqdefault.jpgHow to Check Your Digital Signage Screens Are WorkingIs that screen in the lobby really showing what you think it is? You can check without walking over. Each player checks in with the server regularly. That's the heartbeat, and Last seen says when it last did. The player also uploads a screenshot, so the card shows what's really on screen, and Playerhttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/JjVZq-NM_lw372026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/digital-signage-software/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y_wxa1DS_m8/hqdefault.jpgSee What Plays on Every Screen with SignageTube DirectoryGot forty screens and someone asks what's on the one by reception? Directory answers that in two clicks. Directory lists your players and what's assigned to each. Open a player to see its playlists, overlays and tickers, or start from the content to see which screens use it. Tags narrow the list whehttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Y_wxa1DS_m8262026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/digital-signage-software/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IaFXWRylzak/hqdefault.jpgHow to Organize Many Screens with Sites and GroupsMore screens, more buildings, and the list is getting messy? Sites and groups bring order to it. A site is a location or a division, and a group is a set of players you manage together. We create a site, then a group, and tick the players that belong in it. From then on you can schedule content to thttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/IaFXWRylzak312026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/signagetube-professional/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i21GJV7AYdU/hqdefault.jpgControl Room: Change Playlists Based on Your DataWhat if the screen could switch playlists by itself when your numbers change? Control Room sets up those rules. Control Room uses the same connections as Data Pages, here a sample web feed. Under Rules we add a rule, choose the connection and set when it activates, based on how many records match. Thttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/i21GJV7AYdU392026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/signagetube-enterprise/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fG4byL_9E8g/hqdefault.jpgHow to Control Displays with RS232 Commands in SignageTubeScreens left on all night because nobody walks round to switch them off? RS232 lets the player do it. RS232 lets SignageTube control devices over a serial port, like displays, switchers and projectors. We create a command with the raw string for the device, then add triggers that run it on boot, on https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fG4byL_9E8g382026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/signagetube-professional/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rrCYFWWnk7I/hqdefault.jpgProof of Play and Logs in SignageTubeDid the sponsor's ad really run 40 times last week? Proof of Play shows you. SignageTube keeps four kinds of records. Proof of Play shows what played, how many times and for how long, and Player Logs show what each player reported. User Activity is a read only record of what people did, kept for ninhttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rrCYFWWnk7I332026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/pricing/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Kquq8On0PnY/hqdefault.jpgSignageTube Licensing: Your Subscription and PlayersHow many screens is your subscription good for, and how many are left? Licensing shows you both. Licensing shows your status, your edition and the organization player allocation, which is how many players you can use. When you add a player, the dialog shows how many licenses are in use and how many https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Kquq8On0PnY262026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/support/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yEaN31IvTMw/hqdefault.jpgHow to Restore Deleted Items in SignageTubeDeleted a playlist by mistake? You've got fifteen days to get it back. Deleted items stay in Trash for fifteen days. Restore brings an item back as an inactive draft. Old assignments aren't restored, so check it and put it back in the library on purpose.https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/yEaN31IvTMw232026-11-12 https://signagetube.com/my-downloads-signagetube-20/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EhjCRuQWAN4/hqdefault.jpgDigital Signage Screen Offline or Empty? 4 Things to CheckBlack screen, or a screen that says offline? Work through these four checks before you call anyone. First, the status on the player card: online means it's talking to the server. If it's offline, check the device behind the TV, its internet and the company firewall. Then check that something is assihttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EhjCRuQWAN4532026-11-12