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Screenly 26.10.6: Labels have their own pages

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A label is how 1 playlist reaches the right 40 screens, but until now there was no page for the label itself. You put labels on screens from a screen’s Labels tab or from a selection on the Screens page, so answering “which screens are in Lobby, and what plays on them?” meant opening screens until you had the picture.

Labels now have a page of their own, in the sidebar between Screens and Playlists. It shows every label at a glance, with how many screens carry it and how many playlists it plays, and it’s also where you manage them: you can create, rename, and delete labels right there, without starting from a screen.

A page for each label

Open a label and it has 3 tabs:

Screens lists the screens with the label. “Add screens” opens a searchable list of the screens that don’t have it yet, and you can remove any screen from the label.
Playlists does the same for the playlists assigned to the label, so you can change what a whole group of screens plays from 1 place.
Settings is where you rename or delete the label.

Deleting a label can’t take content off your screens by surprise. A label can be what keeps a playlist on dozens of screens, so before you confirm, the dialog tells you what deleting it will do: how many screens will stop playing how many playlists, or that nothing will change on any screen. Screens that also get those playlists through another label, or directly, aren’t counted, because they keep playing them.

All Screens is the only label you can’t rename, delete, or add screens to, since every screen has it automatically. You can still add playlists to it to play them everywhere.

Help for getting started with labels

The Labels page also helps anyone new to labels, so a team can start grouping screens without reading the docs first. “How labels work” explains the idea in a few lines: give screens that belong together a label, such as Lobby or Floor 2, add playlists to the label once, and every screen with it plays them, including screens you label later.

It also covers what trips people up later: a screen with several labels plays the playlists from all of them, All Screens is a label every screen has, and removing a label from a screen stops only the playlists it got through that label.

Screenly 26.10.6: Screenshots on demand, from a screen's page

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You’ve just changed a playlist and want to know whether the lobby screen picked it up. Until now, the screenshot on the screen’s page was the last one the screen sent on its own, which happens about every 15 minutes, so the answer could be a quarter of an hour old.

Now you can ask a screen for a fresh screenshot whenever you need one. Press “Take screenshot” on the screen’s Overview, the screen captures what it’s showing at that moment, and the new screenshot appears on the page as soon as it arrives.

It works on screens that are online and not in privacy mode, on ScreenlyOS 26.9.0 or newer, the release that added the screenshot command to players.

Screenly 26.10.6: Account settings open over the page you're on

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Changing your name or timezone no longer takes you away from what you were doing. Choose “Account settings” from the account menu in the sidebar, and the Account and Security tabs open in a dialog over the current page. Close it, or press your browser’s Back button, and you’re back on that page.

Screenly 26.10.6: A screen's status follows its connection, and other improvements

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Fixes

A screen that had reconnected after a dropped connection could keep showing “Disconnected” on its Details tab, which also made “Power off” unavailable. The status now follows the connection.
A reboot sent to a screen without a live connection could be lost if it arrived at the moment the screen was checking in. It now reaches the screen at its next check-in.

Improvements

The timezone pickers in account settings and in an app’s timezone setting are searchable. Type a city, a region, or an offset instead of scrolling through around 420 zones.
Emails from Screenly no longer start their subject line with “[Screenly]”. The sender name already says who they’re from.
A tidier Screenshot card on a screen’s Overview, with the time under the image.