Three ideas explain most of Screenly’s behavior. Everything else is detail on top of them.
Each page here is deliberately short and links to the section that goes deep. Terms are defined in the glossary.
Concepts
The model behind Screenly in three short pages: how the pieces fit together, how a screen decides what to play, and what happens when a screen goes offline.
In this section
How Screenly fits together
Five things and one loop: content goes in a playlist, the playlist carries a schedule, and the playlist is assigned to screens.
How a screen decides what to play
Four conditions decide whether a playlist reaches a screen. Knowing them in order turns 'why is it showing that' into a two-minute check.
Online, in sync, and offline
Content lives on the device as well as in the cloud, which is why a screen keeps playing through an outage, and why a change takes a few minutes to appear.