Welcome to the 6th edition of Screenly Sync, where we share the latest updates across our platform, product, and community.

The past few weeks have been among our most active yet. We picked up a major industry award, shipped several significant product updates, expanded our partner ecosystem, and pushed four open-source releases in under 30 days. Here is everything that happened.

Screenly wins the invidis Strategy Business Critical Award 2026

At the Digital Signage Summit (DSS 2026), invidis revealed the winners of its annual Strategy Awards, honoring nine companies for shaping and transforming the digital signage industry. Screenly received the Business Critical award for Cybersecurity.

The recognition reflects an approach we have held since the beginning: building digital signage from the infrastructure up rather than competing on feature checklists, template libraries, or marketing-centric workflows. The invidis team noted that Screenly has built its proposition around architecture, cybersecurity, and developer flexibility, resulting in a SOC 2-certified platform with open-source roots that challenges conventional assumptions about what a digital signage CMS should look like.

We are proud to be recognized alongside other outstanding companies from across the industry. You can see the full list of this year’s winners at invidis.com.

Product updates

Tailscale remote configuration for Screenly players

Screenly players can now be connected to your Tailscale network automatically, directly from workspace settings. You configure the integration once, and every player in your workspace joins your Tailnet. No per-device setup, no manual config files, no firewall rules.

This matters because a significant portion of the content digital signage displays is not public. Internal dashboards, intranet pages, data feeds from systems that only exist inside a corporate network. Tailscale removes the traditional workarounds required to reach that content, whether that meant exposing services through reverse proxies or maintaining fragile IP allowlists.

The OAuth client requires only the auth key creation scope. This is also the release where we are giving a proper name to something that already exists: ScreenlyOS, the firmware running on Screenly players across Raspberry Pi, x86, and DIY setups. Same platform, now with a name.

Full blog post: You can now remotely configure Tailscale on Screenly players

Visit the Screenly Apps directory to get started.

Password login has been removed

As announced in our previous edition, Screenly completed its transition to passwordless authentication on May 21. Email and password login is no longer available. All users now sign in via a single-use, time-sensitive code sent to their registered email address, or through an existing SSO connection (Google, GitHub, Microsoft, or SAML).

This change reduces the attack surface from credential reuse and external breaches. If your organization uses SSO, nothing changed for your team. For users who needed to update their email address before the cutoff, our support team assisted with the transition.

Full blog post: Password login is being removed on May 21

Apps: Salesforce Dashboards and Reports

Screenly’s Apps now include a native Salesforce integration, bringing Salesforce dashboards and reports directly to your digital signage displays. Sales teams can surface live pipeline data, quota progress, and report summaries on screens across office environments without building custom tooling or manually exporting data.

The integration follows the same model as our existing Power BI and Grafana Apps: authenticate once, and the data updates in real time..

Community updates

Anthias: four releases in under 30 days

The Anthias open-source project shipped four releases between May and June: v2026.05.1, v2026.05.2, v2026.06.0, and v2026.06.1. Rather than publish four separate posts, the team rolled everything up into one. The highlights are substantial.

Video playback has been completely overhauled. On Raspberry Pi 4, dropped frames went from approximately 3,000 per minute during a 60-second clip to zero. Pi 4 now runs at a steady 30 fps after a presentation rate issue was resolved. Pi 5 improved from 10 to 12 fps to 26.6 fps. On Pi 2 and Pi 3, VLC was replaced entirely with a hardware-accelerated GStreamer pipeline. On x86 PCs, video playback, which was previously broken due to compositor conflicts, is now fully functional. The team ran 12-hour mixed-media burn-in tests across all supported hardware with zero crashes.

Other notable additions in this release cycle include screen rotation via a UI dropdown (no more config file edits), HDMI-CEC display power control, video URL paste support with background download, a guided migration wizard to Screenly, expanded ARM SBC support (Rock Pi, Orange Pi, Odroid, and similar Armbian-based hardware), and graceful degradation for 1 GB boards to prevent OOM crashes.

If you run Anthias primarily for video playback, this release cycle is worth upgrading for the video fixes alone.

Full blog post: Anthias v2026.05.1 to v2026.06.1: four releases in under 30 days

Screenly Changelog Episode 19: Fractional CISO, cybersecurity reality, and why tools fail SMBs

In the latest episode of the Screenly Changelog, Viktor Petersson and Daniel Mountcastle sat down with Dominic Vogel, Founder of Vogel Cyber Leadership and Coaching and a fractional CISO working closely with manufacturing and SMB environments.

The conversation cuts through a common misconception: most organizations are not under-tooled on security. They are overwhelmed. Alerts pile up, configurations drift, and no one owns the outcome. Dominic’s central argument is that cybersecurity for SMBs is primarily an operational problem, not a technical one. The tools and frameworks exist. What is missing is the layer connecting them to how the business actually runs.

Other topics covered include why manufacturing environments expose the long-term mismatch between infrastructure lifespans and security timelines, how compliance creates movement but not necessarily real protection, why shadow IT and shadow AI are symptoms of alignment failures rather than causes, and how to translate technical risk into business impact for executives who need to make funding decisions.

The full conversation is available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.

Full blog post: Screenly Changelog Episode 19

SignageList has been redesigned

SignageList, the independent digital signage software directory, launched a significant redesign this month. The update brings a new logo, a cleaner layout, improved UX, proper mobile support, and a new Free and Freemium section for products with no upfront cost.

514sid, our Product Manager and the creator behind SignageList, built it to fill a gap he kept running into. No neutral, comprehensive place existed to compare digital signage software. Vendor sites push their own products, review platforms sit behind paywalls, and most public lists are either outdated or incomplete. So he built one himself, researching and curating every entry to track pricing models, platform support, open-source status, founding years, and more.

The result is a directory of 559+ digital signage software products, built on a simple principle: open data, no vendor bias. The site itself is open source, and anyone can submit corrections or additions via GitHub.

That’s all for now

That wraps up this edition of Screenly Sync. May brought an industry award, significant platform updates, a major new partnership, and continued momentum on the open-source side. There is more in the pipeline, and we will share it as it ships.

Thanks for reading, and see you in the next Screenly Sync.