Digital signage setup: open, pair, publish
Connecting a screen to OmrarCast takes a few minutes. No technical knowledge needed: open an address, then type the code that appears on the screen into your dashboard.
How do you set up a digital menu board?
Open the OmrarCast player address in the screen's browser, enter the 8-character code that appears into the dashboard, upload your menu images, build a playlist and assign it to the screen. Set time windows for breakfast, lunch and dinner and the screen switches menus by itself. No extra hardware is needed if your screen has a browser.
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Open the player on your screen
Open the player address in the browser of your TV, monitor or tablet. An 8-character pairing code appears on screen.
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Enter the code in your dashboard
Type the code on the Screens page. The screen joins your account, and you give it a name and a group.
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Publish your content
Upload images and videos, build a playlist and assign it to a screen or group. The screen downloads everything and plays it in a loop.
What happens next?
The screen checks in with the dashboard at regular intervals and asks for the playlist assigned to it. When you change something in the dashboard, the screen notices at its next check, downloads only the new or changed files and adds them to the loop.
Remote commands (refresh, sync now, identify, brightness) reach the screen within about 30 seconds. Whether a screen is online, what is playing right now and when it last checked in: you see all of it in the dashboard.
Which content goes where?
A screen decides its content in this order; the first match wins:
- 1Playlists and schedules assigned directly to the screen
- 2The playlist of the screen's group, or its parent group
- 3The screen's own content list
At every level, a schedule whose time has come takes priority over the default playlist.
Playback continues when the internet drops
Each screen keeps its latest playlist and media inside the device. When the router goes down the menu stays up and the promotion keeps running. As soon as the connection returns, the screen picks up the changes you made in the dashboard.
- Media downloads to the screen once, not on every loop.
- A screen with its media already downloaded restarts with the last playlist even without internet.
- Runs comfortably on metered or weak connections.
What next? See every digital signage feature, pricing at $120 per screen per year and the what is digital signage guide.
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Free for 30 days on up to 2 screens. No credit card required, and if you get stuck during setup we help you remotely.