Screenly 26.10.4 | Screenly

Screenly 26.10.4: Screens can be powered off from the dashboard

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Sometimes a screen needs to be off, not restarted, like the one in a store that’s closing for a refit. Until now that meant someone walking up to the player.

Now you can do it from the dashboard. Open the screen, go to Actions, and choose “Power off”, next to “Reboot”. It works on screens running ScreenlyOS 26.8.0 or newer while they’re online. The player side, a power off command, arrived in ScreenlyOS 26.8.0.

A power off only goes out while the screen is connected. Screenly doesn’t hold it until the screen next checks in, because a screen that switches itself off hours later, with nobody expecting it, is worse than one that stays on. Screens are powered off one at a time, each from its own page.

Once a screen is off, the dashboard can’t reach it, and someone has to switch it back on at the player.

Screenly 26.10.4: Improvements to the Add content dialog

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Adding content to a playlist is quicker and easier, especially from a large library. The Add content dialog, under Playlists > a playlist > Content, is bigger and built for finding the right item fast:

Content is listed in a table you can sort by name, type, duration, or date added.
Folders open like folders, so you step into one instead of scrolling past all of them in one long list, and you can add everything in a folder at once.
A PDF opens onto its pages, so you can add the pages you want, or all of them.
Search covers every folder at once and shows where each match lives.
Previews show the whole image, so a portrait poster and a widescreen banner are easy to tell apart.

Screenly 26.10.4: Unsaved playlist changes can't get lost between tabs

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Editing a playlist often means touching more than 1 tab: some content, then the schedule, then the title. Until now those unsaved changes could pile up on different tabs, and it was easy to forget one. The only way to be sure was to check each tab before leaving, and a title change on the Settings tab could disappear without a word.

Now each tab is settled before you move on. The warning the Content tab got in September covers Content, Schedule, and Settings alike: leave any of them with unsaved changes, to another tab of the playlist or away from it, and Screenly asks “Leave without saving?” first. You save or let the change go right there, so there’s never an edit waiting on a tab you’re not looking at.

Screenly 26.10.4: Tabs always show their names, and other improvements

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The tabs on the screen, playlist, workspace settings, and account settings pages always show their names. In a narrow window, the tabs that don’t fit move into a “…” menu instead of the whole bar shrinking to icons.
The tabs on the screen and playlist pages can be opened in a new browser tab, or have their address copied, like any other link.
An image added to a playlist shows the 10-second duration it will be saved with, instead of a different number until you saved the playlist.