ScreenlyOS 26.7.0 | Screenly

ScreenlyOS 26.7.0: Players showing web pages keep running instead of going black

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A screen showing web pages, such as several Google Slides decks rotating through the day, used a little more memory every time it moved from one web page to the next. Left alone, the player ran out. A screen that had been fine all morning went black or restarted by itself in the afternoon, then ran normally once it came back.

Memory now stays flat however long the loop runs, so a screen on web content keeps going through the day and the night after it.

ScreenlyOS 26.7.0: New playlist content reaches the screen without a restart

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When you added or replaced content in a playlist, a player could download the new items and then go on showing the old ones until it was restarted.

The screen now switches to the new content once it has downloaded, on every player showing that playlist.

ScreenlyOS 26.7.0: The Diagnostics screen on the player is easier to read

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Diagnostics screen is what you read when you’re standing in front of a screen that isn’t doing what it should. Its System, Disk, and Network cards have a new design: larger card titles, load and temperature on 1 line each, and clearer progress bars.

Press F4 on a player to open it.

ScreenlyOS 26.7.0: Players report more about their hardware health, and other improvements

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Players report more about the health of their hardware, including SD card errors on Raspberry Pi and power and heat throttling on Raspberry Pi 5. From Screenly 26.10.3, SD card health is in a screen’s reports on API v4.1, as sd_card_health. The dashboard doesn’t show these readings yet.
Improvements to how players connect to Screenly when the service is busy.
Dependencies and system libraries updated.