r/digitalsignage

Hi,

Based in UK. We design and deploy content to non-soc screens - external players. Mostly retail. Very simple set up .We've about 75 screens like this. It took me ages to find a reputable and reliable provider for players/CMS. I tried the usual yodeck, now signage and other off the shelf solutions. Support just wasn't there. We liked the current guys as I could pick up the phone any time typically they'd solve the issue. CMS was decent. Generally we'd have no issues. Lately support has been getting poorer. I understand they've bigger clients than us etc. I feel that we've put all our eggs in one basket. I'm looking for anyone in the UK who can provide a similar solution..a decent media player, CMS and support and be reasonable price wise (not a reseller ideally) We're going through a bit of a growth period so really need to find an alternative that can offer a service like this. If this is the wrong place, please remove mods!

Hi all

I work in food and beverage. We are briefing a new agency for a refresh of our screens across all our sites, some of which have different sub-brands and require a different look and feel.

I’m trying to establish a design system where we have a toolkit of template designs that can just be reskinned for different brands. Eg ten different screen layouts but we change the colour, font, imagery etc. Two column text menu, single product focus, meal deal focus etc…

Does anyone know of anywhere that collates best practise advice for screen design? Eg guidance on most effective text size, most impactful image placement, transition times etc?

Me and my friends wanted to start a small ad agency. I looked around for digital signage software and found Yodeck — but it was only free for 1 screen. The paid options were way too expensive for what we needed.

So I just built it myself.

It's a simple digital signage tool that lets you:

- Upload ads (images & videos)

- Schedule them by time slots (morning/afternoon/evening)

- Manage multiple screens from a dashboard

- Supports both horizontal (16:9) and vertical (9:16) displays

It's built for my exact use case so it's pretty simple right now. But it works, it's free, and I'd love to know if anyone else finds it useful.

If you have ideas or recommendations for features I should add, please let me know. Happy to hear any feedback!

https://adbook-82ef0.web.app/

Hi. I'm trying to figure out the best option for a TV to use as a menu board in-store.
It should be
- inexpensive, lightweight, large
- able to handle 8-9 hours of daily static content
- easy to use & make changes to menu

We've already got a TV running ads in-store as a moving slideshow running through YouTube, although I'm not sure the same kind of thing will work as well for a static menu. Recommendations?

Hey everyone,

Something I’ve been thinking about after a few recent installs are we putting too much focus on brightness (nits) when it comes to outdoor displays????

Don’t get me wrong, high brightness is important, especially in direct sunlight. But we’ve seen cases where even very bright screens still struggle because of glare, poor placement angles, or surrounding lighting conditions.

On the flip side, some slightly lower-brightness setups performed better just because they were positioned well or had better anti-glare treatment.

Feels like brightness gets all the attention in specs, but real-world visibility is a mix of multiple factors.

Curious how others approach this:

• Do you prioritize nits above everything else? (Important)
• How much does placement and environment factor into your decisions?
• Any real-world cases where brightness alone didn’t solve the problem?

Would be great to hear different perspectives from the field.

So we are just one location, not managing a whole “fleet” of displays. We need one tv or display in our front lobby. Its main purpose would be to play a 1 minute safety video for visitors because they enter the actual facility. (Many of our visitors walk into the office area but then go into the industrial plant area.)

Corporate has given us the safety video, it’s in mp4 format. Right now I have it on a USB drive.

What’s the easiest way to do this set up that does not involve just going through clunky input settings with the remote?

I’m not sure if corporate will allow us to buy a smart tv. I 100% know they won’t allow it to connect to our WiFi. We aren’t looking to pay any type of subscription.

I’m just the admin/receptionist, but I am a very tech savvy older millennial. But when I’m not in the office (because I’m part time) I need to make sure this is easy enough for any of my coworkers to sign visitors in and then show them the video.

After I figure this part out then I’d also like to make maybe a “slideshow” of some sort that can run on replay, company highlights, values, company culture, etc. but then obviously easily switch the safety video as needed.

We are building an in-elevator advertising network of screens that are Android 9+
and I can connect via a 4G SIM no problem. I am looking for the best CMS system that
1- Auto-boots and resumes loop.
2- Offline continuity
3- Scalable to over 100 screens
4- Easy to manage
5- No physical device needed
6- ACTUALLY WORKS AND RELIABLE

Thanks in advance

We currently utilize Anthias to display our signage, which we use to display Google Calendar meeting events on the current day. We would like to get away from creating the HTML/CSS of the presentable aspect of the sign, and are looking for a different solution. We have a total of 6 signs.

Some things that we are needing:

*Ability for users to sign in and make changes to signs via a web editor

*Centralized management

*Tech Support from the solution

*Needs to be able to make a Google API connection to Calendar + Would like to customize how the layout of the calendar events are

*Preferably, would like assets and images to be stored in cloud and not on a local server

Some options that I have looked into are Yodeck, Dakboard, and Optisign. I am curious as to how others' experience with Ubiquiti's Display Cast Lite functionality works, if anyone has experience with it. I appreciate any feedback and recommendations that anyone is willing to offer.

Running 5 locations and the management side was eating my life. Switched CMS about a month ago and it's a diff job now.

The thing nobody tells you about multi location signage is how much the platform actually matters way less than people think until you actually scale. Once you hit 4-5 locations the gaps show up fast.
Diff managers stepping on each others content, no clear picture of whats playing where, having to physically check screens or call locations to verify stuff is running.

New setup handles all that cleanly which is honestly all i wanted.

question for the group;
whats your access model across locations?
Do location managers get free rein on their own stuff or do you make them submit changes? Also how do people handle the conflict when corporate wants to push something and a location already has content scheduled in that slot?

Can I use this controller as an Android player and install apps on it? When I turn it on, the Android logo appears, but all I see is the cursor and a black screen.

I’m looking for cms recommendations that can utilize the features of the xt5 including the hdmi in.

Plus for live data feeds such as weather, news, stocks, or ability to create custom layouts with multiple data feeds. Think stock ticker in a zone and live transit data in another.

Any direction to vendors that can use bright sign players is helpful.

I had a client that needed a very specific digital signage solution. I'm not an AV person I don't know that much about all the signage softwares but I do know that as a company that only used Mac devices anything I could deliver on Mac OS would be ideal for them.

After getting some helpful suggestions on Reddit I decided to make my own. Nothing off the shelf really worked as well as I wanted. Specifically to span 3 displays with 1 piece of content at a time (image or video) with no sort of hacks/work arounds like having three sperate pieces of content doing the full screen span of one window across the screens.

The solution I made simply has a player app on the device that plays content full screen, has a debug mode showing status with connection displays etc. and a web portal that let's you send content to the device and change the schedule, pair a device all that good stuff.

https://bellvue.io/

Would love to know if anything finds this useful as well. I know it's not common to use a Mac for most signage.

I was trying to compare prices for indoor and outdoor digital signboards because I noticed how different they look in shops versus outside on roads. It made me curious if the price difference is really big or just based on small feature changes.

I checked alibaba while scrolling in evening and I saw many digital signboards listed for both indoor and outdoor use. Outdoor ones were usually more expensive with higher brightness and weather protection while indoor ones looked simpler and cheaper. But some listings still looked similar which made it confusing to understand the real difference.

Then I looked at some buyer feedback and comparisons where people said outdoor screens cost more because of durability and visibility features. Now I am trying to figure out if it is worth paying extra for outdoor grade screens or indoor ones can work in some cases too.

Do you think outdoor digital signboards are always necessary or indoor ones can also work in semi outdoor spaces?

I’m building something aimed at advertising on screens in the real world—think shops, waiting areas, small chains where TVs show a stream of ads (images and short promos), on a loop, with control from the web so someone can swap campaigns without visiting each location. New screens should be easy to add (simple on-boarding, not IT-heavy), and playback should survive bad Wi‑Fi once content has reached the device.

What do you think about this?