Hi,
We are looking to replace our current digital signage software for our stores, we have around 50 screens, Samsung QMB series, we are looking for something value for money, easy to use and have apps like power bi and Instagram integration, preferably cloud based
Greetings, we have 4 "tv's" in our head office that used to display various information pages, they haven't worked for quite a few years now..
One in reception had info on the building and things like LTA records etc underneath a Sky News feed.
Two of them were in different workshops displaying production schedules intermixed with "case studies" pages ( for the "look what we can do" presentation to potential clients when they were shown round )
The fourth ( which I only realised was there recently ) was similar to the first one but in the upstairs open office area..
.. which is a long winded intro into what I would like help with..
I've recently been made the supervisor of one of those workshops and would like to get the production schedule working again.
The TV's are Samsung and apparently use MagicInfo as the display software..
They are no longer allowed on our network as they are Windows XP and our IT department have taken anything not running Windows 11 off it..
I have no idea how MagicInfo works or if there is a Windows 11 version that can be run on a mini-pc?
Whoever set up the original system some 13 years ago is long gone and I would like to find some decent tutorials on how to make it work..
The production schedule used to just look at an Excel sheet with the data in it, I know where that is on the network..
From what I've read there's a server side part to it and then the display part that puts the pages on the screens.. is that right?
Over my 10 years in IT, I’ve repeatedly faced the same challenge: upper management wants a digital signage solution for office and remote locations, but existing market options fall short. In my experience, projects usually stall due to high costs, hardware dependencies (like Raspberry Pi shortages), strict IT security, or overly complex user interfaces for the non-technical staff tasked with updating them.
To solve this, I developed a lightweight, browser-based digital signage platform focused entirely on the basics. It is designed to be highly cost-effective, low on network bandwidth, and simple enough for any office employee to use.
I am currently at the MVP stage. To circumvent performance issues on older smart TVs, I have also prototyped an Android app optimized for affordable Android TV boxes.
I am now looking to stress-test the solution and evaluate its market feasibility. I would highly appreciate any technical feedback or testing support from the community.
I'm building an AI-first digital signage platform called ScreenaAI, and while talking to teams evaluating signage software, I kept hearing the same complaint: almost everything is still manual.
Creating playlists, assigning screens, scheduling content, monitoring playback, updating dashboards—most platforms still expect someone to click through a CMS for every change.
That made me wonder whether AI is actually useful here.
We're experimenting with letting admins do things using plain English, for example:
The goal isn't AI for content generation—it's reducing operational work.
For people managing dozens or hundreds of screens:
I'm looking for honest feedback, including reasons why this idea wouldn't work in real deployments.
Hi guys!
I’m currently working on a schematic drawing project.
Hope to get your honest feedback.
To see what I can be improved.
Thanks again!
I work for a brewery and I want to find a digital solution for displaying our weekly truck schedule for our warehouse staff. Right now, they only know an order is shipping based on the printed shipping paperwork they get each morning. The issue is that twice recently an order was missed in the printing process and did not make it onto the truck. If our team had access to the shipping schedule they would have (hopefully) noticed that an order was missing from the paperwork.
My requirements are pretty minimal. I want an electronic display that I can set up to display all of the shipments that are going out each day; a big day would be 10 shipments, so it's not a huge list. I'd like to be able to update the display from my office, which is not in the same building as the warehouse, but is on the same Internet network. The display itself doesn't need to be huge, they all work out of a shipping station that is a single desk, so we could mount the display above the desk.
I'm not a super techy person, so if there are other specifications I should add to this, please let me know.
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Thank you in advance for your help.
i've being noticing over the past few years is that interactive displays are being used for much more than digital signage or presentations.
in many workplaces, they're becoming collaborative work spaces rather than just large screens.
Instead of one person controlling the meeting, multiple people can contribute simultaneously whether that's sketching ideas, annotating documents, comparing layouts, or building mind maps together. It changes the dynamic from presenting information to creating it as a group.
I think that's one of the more interesting shifts in display technology. The hardware has improved, but the bigger change is how people interact with it.
My view is organizations will use interactive displays more for collaboration, than presentation screens in near future, any thoughts
So I noticed signage solutions usually required a paid subscription if you need sync over multiple screens, or required a server such as Docker to achieve that. Both were a no go for for me, so I created a basic digital signage solution without restrictive licensing. It runs across a number of content self-synchronizing raspberry pi's (or other Debian based distro devices) and so far seems to run smoothly.
Thought I'd share it here, maybe it can help somebody out. This is where its at.
https://github.com/JasperE84/FleetSign
P.S. this solution is completely open domain and open license. No commercial aspect to it whatsoever.
Here is DEMO VIDEO LINK
Hi everyone,
I need some honest opinions.
We built a test setup for a multiscreen configurator, and I’m trying to understand if this could actually be useful in real shops or showrooms.
The idea is that the customer or salesperson changes the product on one screen, and the other screens show different details at the same time, for example closeups, materials, colors, interior views, or other product variations.
Right now we are testing it with clothing and camper van examples.
Some things already work, like touchscreen control, price calculation, different views on different screens, and showing clothing on a human model or avatar and we have whole admin panel.
My question is if it would this help in a real sales situation?
Would you use it in your shop?
Here is DEMO VIDEO LINK
Thank you for feedback.
If someone supplied the screen, set everything up and kept your menus and promotions updated every month…
…what would you actually expect to pay?
I’ve been working on a managed digital signage service for small businesses and I’m still trying to figure out what people actually want.
Personally, I enjoy creating the content just as much as the tech, things like new menu designs, seasonal promotions xmas easter valentines, social posts, all that sort of stuff.
My thinking is that business owners shouldn’t have to learn new software or spend time updating screens. If they want something changed, they just send a message and it’s done.
Would you rather have someone manage everything for you, or would you rather have the software and update it yourself? Just trying to figure this out
Just found Yodeck and running a free single screen, in the future Im sure there is scope to upgrade as we are a school,
now, one thing I need on the layout, is the school period (Registration, P1, P2, etc) so far for this, I made a php page on my linux web server, and it just reports back the period based on a csv, "if time > start & < end show period name" nothing too crazy, but Im having issues getting it to use the correct time, should be BST but it keeps showing the wrong hour, so I changed to UTC and it was fine, but doenst want to update when the time changes, so.... Im thinking of in app scripting, can anyone point me in how to do this?
I figure uploading a CSV to the media folder for a script to read off might be out of scope for how it works, so if the script had the times in a Dictionary or something and jsut ran as is it wouldnt be the end of the world, its only me editing at this stage, and if and when we grow users and screens I'll most likely end up teaching them how to do it anyway...