What you need

  • An owner or admin account. Editors, operators and viewers can see a TV’s page, but not its background.
  • A TV that’s already added. If it isn’t, see Add a TV.

What a background is

A TV has screens of its own: its list of presentations, a presentation’s files, and its message when it has nothing to show. A background is the picture behind those.

It never goes behind your slides. A file full screen always shows exactly as you made it.

Choose one

  1. Go to Displays and choose the TV’s Manage Display.
  2. Under Background, choose what goes behind its screens.
  3. That’s all: it’s saved as you choose it. The TV changes within a minute.

There are three kinds:

  • Default: a fine grid on black, under a soft warm light.
  • One of six pictures made for kids’ rooms: Sky, Farm, Night, Meadow, Underwater or Lake.
  • Upload a custom background: a picture of your own. The window it opens has two choices at its top. Upload a file from your computer comes first: drop a picture on it, or choose Choose files. Select a file from your Library shows your files, searched by name as you type in Search your files. An upload goes into your Library too, and becomes the background as soon as it’s ready.

A TV you’ve just added starts on Default. Change it any time.

The Background card on a TV’s page: Behind this TV’s own screens, never behind a slide or a video. The TV dims a picture so its words read on it. Default, then Sky (chosen), Farm, Night, Meadow, Underwater and Lake, each with its picture, then Upload a custom background.

Good to know

  • The TV dims any picture as much as it needs, so the words on its screens stay easy to read.
  • Each TV has its own background. To give several TVs the same one, choose it on each TV’s page.
  • While a Library picture is in the trash, the TV shows the default. Restore the picture and it’s back.
  • Nothing on the TV changes its background. It’s chosen on Displays, like everything a TV shows.

Still stuck? Email support@displayte.com. A person answers.