What signage is

Signage is a presentation that plays by itself, looping, with nobody at the remote: a lobby welcome, a café menu, a hallway of what’s on this month. It has no date, so it’s always available, and it never moves to Past.

It’s a setting on one presentation, not on a TV. A TV still shows the presentations it’s given; signage is one of them.

Make a presentation signage

When you make one:

  1. Go to Presentations and choose New presentation.
  2. Give it a name.
  3. Under When, choose Always available. Under Playback, choose By itself, looping.
  4. Add its pictures, choose its TV, and choose Show on 1 TV.
New presentation on its Playback step: How should it play?, with By itself, looping chosen and Each picture at 8 s; then Back and Next.

Or turn it on for one you already have:

  1. Open the presentation.
  2. Under its name, choose Always available. Under Playback, choose By itself, looping. Each is saved as you choose it.
  3. Set Each picture, anywhere from 3 to 60 seconds.
Lobby welcome’s page: Always available chosen under its name, its date greyed out, and Stays on the TVs. It doesn’t end after a date. Then Playback, with By itself, looping chosen and Each picture at 8 s.

To give it a date again, choose Scheduled under When. To stop it playing by itself, choose With the remote under Playback.

Put it on a TV

On Displays, give the TV this presentation and nothing else. It starts as soon as the TV is on, and keeps going round.

If a TV has other presentations too, signage waits in the TV’s list like the rest, until someone picks it. The line above Save says so: Lobby welcome plays by itself only on a TV that has nothing else.

The Lobby TV’s Presentations on this TV: Sunday in Kids ticked under Upcoming, and Lobby welcome ticked and marked On this TV under Always available. The line above Save says: Lobby will show a list of 2 presentations to choose from. Lobby welcome plays by itself only on a TV that has nothing else.

Good to know

  • Signage keeps playing if the Wi‑Fi drops. Changes reach the TV once it’s back.
  • Anyone who can change presentations (owners, admins and editors) can change When and Playback. Operators and viewers see Always available on the presentation, and By itself, looping on Presentations.
  • More about the TV’s list and the remote: What the remote does on the TV.
  • More about lobby screens: How to set up a church lobby screen that runs by itself.

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