ScreenlyOS can reach a screen in one of three ways. They differ in how much is already done for you before the device is in your hands, but the result is the same: a device running the whole Screenly stack.
On Screenly hardware
Our own players come with ScreenlyOS already on them. The operating system, the device, and the playback software are one product, built and tuned together. This is the most hands-off route, since the device is a Screenly screen from the moment it powers on.
On a Sharp display
Some commercial displays have the computer built in, so there is no separate device to hide behind the screen. Sharp offers ScreenlyOS preloaded on its large-format displays, with a Raspberry Pi Compute Module that slots into the display itself. The display and the device are one piece of commercial-grade hardware, carrying Screenly’s Raspberry Pi roots inside a professional screen.
On your own Raspberry Pi
You can also put ScreenlyOS on a Raspberry Pi of your own. Screenly provides an image for it, so a standard Pi becomes a full ScreenlyOS device, running the same operating system as our hardware. This is the route for building a Screenly device yourself rather than buying one ready-made.