Knowledge

Concepts

A handful of ideas explain how Screenly works: the screens you manage, the content they show, the timing behind it, and the structure that organizes who can do what. Understand these, and you understand Screenly.

The concepts build on each other, so read them in order, or jump straight to what you need.

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Screenly

See how the whole system fits together. The fastest way to make sense of everything else.

4 topics8 min read Get started

Screens & deployment

What a screen is, and the two ways to run Screenly on it.

2

Screens

What a screen is, how it connects to Screenly, and how to keep many of them in order.

3 topics4 min read
3

ScreenlyOS

Our most secure and reliable way to run signage, and why that matters.

3 topics6 min read
4

Screenly Anywhere

Run Screenly on hardware that does not run ScreenlyOS, and what you trade for it.

3 topics4 min read

Content & delivery

What you show, when it shows, and how it reaches the screen.

5

Content

The raw material of your signage, from images and video to web pages and apps.

3 topics6 min read
6

Apps

Live, data-driven content on your screens, and where it fits.

4 topics4 min read
7

Playlists

What decides what each screen actually shows.

3 topics4 min read
8

Scheduling

The right thing on screen at the right time, planned in advance instead of switched by hand.

5 topics7 min read
9

Content delivery

The path your content takes to each screen, and how caching keeps it playing offline.

3 topics4 min read

Organization & access

The structure behind your teams, access, subscription, and outside connections.

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Workspaces

Keeping teams, brands, or locations cleanly separated as you grow.

4 topics4 min read
11

Account

Your personal login, and keeping it secure.

3 topics4 min read
12

Subscription

Your plan sets what you can do, and licenses set how many screens you run.

4 topics4 min read
13

Integrations

Connecting Screenly to the tools and data you already rely on.

5 topics5 min read

Build with Screenly

Screenly is built to be built on, not only used. Automate it with the API and CLI, bring in AI through the MCP server, drive content with predicates, build your own apps, and even put your own product in front of it.

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Screenly as a platform

What it means that Screenly is headless, and the range of what you can build on it.

2 topics3 min read
15

Building apps

Build your own apps and run them on Screenly, with code on the device and secrets that never leak.

3 topics3 min read
16

Web pages on screens

Make a web page built for people work as signage: shape it, reach it when it is private, and let it adapt per screen.

4 topics4 min read
17

CLI

The command-line way to run Screenly, built for scripting and automation.

2 topics2 min read
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Predicates

The engine behind scheduling, and how to drive content from live data.

3 topics5 min read
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MCP server

A bridge that lets AI assistants understand and work with Screenly.

2 topics2 min read