A member working from the sofa in the tershouse lounge, screens on the wall behind

05 — screens

Digital signage connected
to your live schedule.

Screens in your lobby, floors and meeting rooms — showing live schedules, announcements and wayfinding from tersOS.

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The Displays screen in the backoffice: paired screens with their mode and content, and the preview pane for the selected oneLive · app.tersos.io
fig. 01 — the Displays screen, every paired TV with its preview

Pair a TV by code

A TV shows a six-character code, and you type it into the backoffice.

Every TV runs the same tersOS app. Plug one in and it shows a code; a staff member types that code into the Displays screen, names the room it hangs in and picks its orientation. No two TVs anywhere on tersOS share a code, so a TV can only ever land in your space.

The claim panel on the Displays screen.

Type the pairing code, name the room, pick landscape or portrait. Unpair a TV and it goes back to showing a fresh code, ready to be claimed again. Codes nobody claims are cleared every hour.

  • Pairing code, room, optional name and orientation
  • Unpair a TV and it shows a fresh code, ready to be claimed again
  • Codes nobody claims are cleared every hour
The Claim a display panel with fields for pairing code, room, name and orientation
fig. 02 — the Claim a display panel

Playlists and media

A playlist is a loop of images and videos that plays on the screens you choose.

Pick files from your media library, put them in order and give each one a duration. Assign the playlist to one screen or many. Upload a file once and reuse it in any playlist or mood; save a change and every TV on that playlist picks it up straight away.

The playlist editor for Kafic Playlist: details, seven items with their durations, and the loop summary
fig. 03 — the playlist editor, seven items and the loop summary
Two playlist cards with item count, device count, version and a duplicate button
fig. 04 — playlist cards with item count, device count, version and the duplicate button

Every playlist, with where it plays

Each playlist shows how many items it has and how many screens it plays on.

The media library grid: image files with their size and the number of places each is used in
fig. 05 — the media library: files with their size and the number of places each is used in

One media library

Images, video and audio are uploaded once and reused across playlists and moods.

A screen card in media mode showing Scene.mp4 with rotation set to 90 degrees
fig. 06 — TV 2 in Recepcija: media mode, one video file, rotation 90°

A single file on a screen

A screen can show one image or video on its own, rotated from the backoffice.

Moods and schedules

A mood pairs an ambient video with a sound, and a schedule switches moods by time of day.

A mood is one video and one sound from your media library, with a name. A schedule is a set of time slots that choose which mood plays at each part of the day. Give a screen a schedule and it follows it on its own.

The New mood panel: pick a video and a sound.

Moods use files already in your media library. Change a mood and every TV using it switches over straight away.

  • One video and one sound per mood
  • A schedule is a set of time slots, each with its own mood
  • Add, edit or remove a slot without touching the rest
The New mood panel with name, description, video source and audio source fields
fig. 07 — the New mood panel

Calendar mode

A screen beside a meeting room shows that room’s bookings for today.

Set a screen to calendar mode and choose the room it hangs beside. It shows that room’s bookings for the day, from the same calendar your staff, your members and tersAI book into, so anyone walking past can see what is on.

Mode is chosen per screen: playlist, media, mood, calendar or off.

Each screen card has the mode switch and shows what that screen is playing. Calendar mode asks you for a meeting room, and the screen then shows that room’s bookings for today.

  • Playlist, media, mood, calendar or off, per screen
  • Choose the meeting room from your list of rooms
  • Copy one screen’s settings to every screen in its room
Two screen cards on the Displays screen with the mode switch: playlist, media, mood, calendar, off
fig. 08 — two screen cards with the mode switch

Screen health

Every TV checks in every 30 seconds, and the front desk is told when one goes quiet.

You can see when each TV last checked in and whether it is healthy. A TV quiet for five minutes is marked offline and your staff get a notification, and they are told again when it comes back. The preview shows what a screen is playing without anyone walking over to it.

The expanded preview of TV1 in the backoffice, playing a slide of the Kafic playlist full-screen with an offline notice
fig. 09 — the expanded preview of one screen, with the offline notice
The device health drawer: offline status with a score, and rows for app version, local IP, socket, cache, cached items, cache size, evicted, uptime and OS
fig. 10 — the health panel for one TV: its status and score

When a TV last checked in

Open a TV’s health panel to see its status and when it last checked in.

The bottom of the preview pane with the notice that TV1 is offline and may not be showing this
fig. 11 — the preview pane noting that TV1 is offline and may not be showing this

Marked offline after five quiet minutes

The preview says so and your staff get a notification, and another when it is back.

The Displays screen filtered to Event Space Hodnik: screen cards with their last-seen time
fig. 12 — the fleet filtered to one room: EH3 and EH2 in Event Space Hodnik, each with when it was last seen

Every screen in a room

Filter by room and copy one screen’s settings to the others in one go.

Where it shows up

The same content, in the backoffice and on the wall.

Staff choose and preview a screen’s content in the backoffice, and the TV plays it. A door screen in calendar mode shows the bookings members make in the Member App, because both use the same calendar.

The preview pane simulating TV 2, a portrait screen in Recepcija
fig. 13 — the preview pane simulating TV 2, a portrait screen in Recepcija
Backofficestaff · preview pane
fig. 14 — a door screen in calendar mode, drawn
Screenson the wall and on the door
The booking calendar in the member app
fig. 15 — the booking calendar a door screen shows
Member Appmembers · the bookings a door screen shows

Also included

The rest of what Screens does.

Pair

  • The same tersOS app on every TV, paired to your space by a code
  • No two TVs on tersOS ever share a pairing code
  • Room, name and orientation set when you claim
  • Unpair a TV to claim it again, or delete it for good
  • Codes nobody claims are cleared every hour

Show

  • Playlist, single file, mood, calendar or off, per screen
  • Rotation of 0°, 90°, 180° or 270° per screen, or as the TV reports it
  • Apply one screen’s settings to every screen in its room
  • Duplicate a playlist to start from a copy
  • Changes reach every TV the moment you save

Watch

  • Every TV checks in every 30 seconds
  • Marked offline after five quiet minutes, with a notification to staff
  • A separate alert when a TV keeps failing to load its content
  • Another notification when a TV comes back
  • A health panel per screen showing its status and past errors
  • Preview what a screen is showing, from your desk
“Our screens just work. We don’t have to think about them.”
The tershouse team, Sarajevo

Works with

Screens is one of ten modules.

Bookings →

A screen in calendar mode shows a meeting room’s bookings for today, from the same calendar.

Floor Plans →

The rooms you can put a screen beside are the same rooms drawn on your floor plan.

Events →

Screens in an event space play a playlist, a single file or a mood, set from the same Displays screen.

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