Assign your playlist to a screen

One step left: telling the screen you connected which playlist to play.

There are two ways to do it, and you can mix them.

You can pick the specific screens a playlist should play on. That is the simplest option, and the right one when you have a handful of screens.

Or you can use a label. Put a label on a playlist and on some screens, and every screen with that label plays it. That is what you want once a group of screens should stay in step without you maintaining a list.

Assign it

For your first screen, picking it directly is the fastest route.

1. Open your playlist and go to its Screens tab.
2. Add the screen you connected earlier.
3. Save.

That is the whole assignment. Your screen is now live.

When to reach for labels instead

Direct assignment means revisiting the playlist every time your screens change. Labels remove that.

Give twelve screens the label “Warehouse”, put the same label on a playlist, and all twelve play it. Connect a thirteenth next month, give it the same label, and it joins on its own with nothing else to update.

A screen can carry several labels, and so can a playlist, which is how a screen ends up showing a site-wide announcement alongside content meant only for its own floor.

You do not have to choose now. Start by picking screens directly, and move to labels when keeping the list up to date starts to feel like work.

When it appears

Nothing is pushed to your screen. Each screen checks in with Screenly on its own and downloads whatever is waiting for it.

Expect it to pick up the change within a minute or two on a healthy connection. It downloads in the background while continuing to play whatever it had before, then switches over once it has everything.

Next

Verify your screen is playing, which is the last step.