Every screen shows the right thing. You find out when one doesn’t.
screenherd puts dashboards, menus, agendas, notices and designed boards on every screen you run, in one building or fifty, from one console. Pair a screen with a code, schedule what it shows by day and time, and let it survive a week without the network.
Per screen, per month. Every feature included. No card to start.
Despatch · carrier cut-offsUnit 4, goods out14:08Up and running in an afternoon
No device enrolment, no on-site server, no laptop taped behind the TV.
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Pair a screen
Install the screenherd player on an Android box, a Windows or Linux PC, a Raspberry Pi or a browser. It shows a short code; type it into the console and name the screen.
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Build playlists and designs
Add dashboards by URL, upload images and video, or design a menu, a notice or a welcome board in the built-in designer. Set how long each item stays up.
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Schedule it and watch it
Assign playlists or day-and-time schedules to screens or whole herds. The dashboard shows what is playing and flags any screen that goes quiet.
What’s in the box
The player is deliberately dumb and durable. Everything that can be decided centrally is decided in the console and pushed down as a small, versioned document.
Dashboards and web pages
Point a playlist item at any URL: a KPI dashboard, a booking calendar, a weather page. Set the refresh policy, zoom and desktop mode per item.
Images and video
Upload to the media library and drop images and videos into playlists. Large photos are trimmed to 4K on the way in; players cache media so a dropped network does not blank the wall.
A screen designer built in
Lay out notices, welcome boards and branded frames on a fixed canvas: shapes, text, images, SVG graphics, groups, alignment guides and starter templates.
Schedules by day and time
Rules pick a playlist by weekday, time and date range, with priorities for overrides and a default when nothing matches. Wall-clock local to your site, daylight saving handled.
Herds and tags
Group screens by site, floor or purpose. Assign a playlist or schedule to a herd and every screen in it follows; tag screens for filtering and per-item targeting.
Know when a screen goes stray
Every player heartbeats. Miss a few and the screen is marked stray on the dashboard, with the last seen time, so someone can go and look before anyone complains.
A week offline, still showing
The Android player keeps the last show document and cached media on the device. Lose the network, lose the API, lose power: it comes back showing the right thing.
Small, versioned pushes
Change a playlist and every affected screen gets a tiny version notice over a live socket, then fetches the new document. No polling, no big payloads, no flicker.
Reliability over features
A screen on a wall has one job, whether it hangs over a despatch lane, behind a bar or outside a seminar room. screenherd was built by people who got tired of walking over to a blank TV.
- Online means heartbeating and showing the document it was given.
- Stray means it missed a few heartbeats. The dashboard says so, with the last time it was seen.
- Updating means a new version is on its way. Pushes are tiny and the screen never goes blank in between.
show.update { "version": 41 }That is the whole message. The player fetches the new document over HTTPS with an ETag, cross-fades to it, and keeps the old one on disk in case the next fetch fails.
Who it’s for
Anyone with a screen on the wall that should say the right thing at the right time, from a single café to a network of warehouses.
Warehousing, manufacturing and logistics
Throughput boards, carrier cut-offs, OEE, shift handovers and safety notices.
Hospitality
Menus that change with the time of day, what’s on, welcome boards and offers.
Exhibitions and events
Agendas, room signs, wayfinding and sponsor loops, set up for the show dates.
Offices and reception
Welcome boards, company news, visitor QR codes and a clock people actually look at.
Retail
Promotions in the window, targets and rota changes behind the till.
Schools, clubs and venues
Timetables, fixtures and the wet-weather plan.
Put your first screen on the wall today
A workspace takes a minute to create. The trial needs no card.