Pictures
JPEG, PNG or WebP. They are resized in your browser before upload, so a phone photo doesn’t eat your storage.
Digital signage for restaurants and every other business
Every screen in your business, run from one browser tab.
Upload pictures and videos, put them in playlists and decide when each one plays. ScreenQ sends changes to your TVs within seconds and shows you which ones are on.
No password and no card. Sign up with your email; we review each request and set up your organization.
On the TV: open s.screenq.tv in its browser to pair it.
How it works
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Request access
Sign up with your email (no password: we send a link or a 6-digit code) and tell us about your business. Once we approve it, your organization is ready.
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Connect a screen
Open s.screenq.tv in the TV’s browser. It shows a code and a QR code. Scan it, or type the code into the console.
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Add your content
Upload pictures and videos, or write a text slide. Put them in a playlist and give the screen that playlist.
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It plays
The screen runs the playlist on a loop and keeps going until you change it. Every change you save is sent to it.
Playlists
Edit it in the console. It changes on the wall.
This is the playlist editor, cut down. Change the text slide, switch items off and save: the screen gets the new playlist the way a real one does, pushed the moment you save.
Playlists / Window offers
Unsaved changes Playing “Window offers”, 4 items.
Pairing
A new TV joins with a code, not a login.
Nobody types an email or a password on a remote. The TV shows a code; you scan it with your phone, say where the screen is and what it plays, and it starts. It stays paired through power cuts and restarts.
Add a screen
Enter the code on the TV and say where it is. It joins Northside Store.
Code ABCD-EFGH
Name Front counter
Location Choose a location
Playlist None
Add screen - The TV opens
s.screenq.tvand shows a code that lasts fifteen minutes. - You scan the QR, or type the code into the console.
- Name the screen, pick its location and playlist.
- The TV hears it has been claimed and starts playing.
Schedules
Breakfast at seven, lunch at eleven. Nobody touches a remote.
Rules give a location or a single screen a playlist by weekday, time of day and date range. A screen’s own rule beats its location’s, and where rules overlap, the higher priority wins. The TV works its schedule out itself, so 11:00 switches at 11:00 even if the internet is down.
Mon
Breakfast Lunch menu
Tue
Breakfast Lunch menu
Wed
Breakfast Lunch menu
Thu
Breakfast Lunch menu Evening specials
Fri
Breakfast Lunch menu Evening specials
Sat
Weekend brunch Live football
Sun
Weekend brunch
- Breakfast Mon–Fri, 07:00–11:00 Location · Priority 0
- Lunch menu Mon–Fri, 11:00–14:30 Location · Priority 0
- Weekend brunch Sun, Sat, 08:30–14:00 Location · Priority 0
- Evening specials Thu–Sat, 17:00–22:00 Location · Priority 0
- Live football Sat, 19:00–22:00 This screen · Priority 10
- All dayThe screen’s own playlist, whenever no rule matches
Wed 12:00: Lunch menu, from the location’s rule Mon–Fri, 11:00–14:30.
Screens
Know a screen is off before a customer tells you.
Every screen reports in. The console shows which are online, what each one is playing and when an offline one was last seen, across every location. If one stays offline for 15 minutes, owners and admins get an email, and another when it comes back.
Screens3 of 3 screens on your plan.
ScreenStatusPlaylistDetailsActions
Front windowNorthside Store OnlineNew season.webp Window offers Landscape
Menu boardStation Road Café OnlineLunch menu All dayBy schedule Portrait (rotated left)
Back wallStation Road Café Offline for 22 minAlert sent All dayBy schedule Landscape
- Now playing The item on screen right now, for every online screen.
- Commands Reload a screen from the console. Screenshots and app restarts come with the Android app.
- Settings that follow Rename, rotate, change the transition or playlist; the TV picks it up within seconds.
- Keeps playing If the connection drops, a screen carries on with the content it already has.
Content and screens
Four kinds of content. Any way up.
Mix them in one playlist. Each screen can be landscape or portrait, either way up, and picks one of 12 transitions between items.
Videos
H.264 MP4, up to 100 MB each on the Starter plan. Each one plays to the end. HEVC and AV1 files aren’t accepted.
Text slides
A heading and a message for announcements and offers. Six colour presets or your own, aligned left, centre or right.
Clock and weather
The time, date and local weather for the screen’s location, with high and low, humidity, rain chance and wind.
Landscape or portrait
Hang the TV on its side and set the screen to portrait: the player rotates itself, so you don’t need a TV that supports it. Pick a rotation to see it.
Runs in the TV’s own browser
There is nothing to install. Open s.screenq.tv on a smart TV, an Android TV stick or a small PC
plugged into the screen. The player is built for TV browsers that are years behind a laptop’s, back to
Chromium 63.
TV browsers vary, so try yours first: s.screenq.tv/tv-check
tests what the player needs and reports anything missing.
Android app Coming later
A ScreenQ app for Android TV sticks and boxes is planned. It opens the same player and adds what a browser can’t do: screenshots of what is on screen, and restarting the app from the console.
Who it’s for
Built for the screens businesses already have.
The same console and the same rules, whatever is on the wall.
Shop windows and tills
- A weekend sale that starts on Friday morning and ends on Sunday night, set once with a date range.
- The same campaign on every store’s window screen, with a local offer on the one by the till.
- New stock in the window the day it arrives, uploaded from a phone.
Menu boards that follow the clock
- Breakfast, lunch and evening menus that change on their own, weekdays and weekends apart.
- A portrait menu board beside a landscape screen of the specials.
- Sold out of something? Switch its slide off and save.
Lobbies, lifts and breakfast rooms
- Breakfast times and a welcome by the lift, the local time and weather at reception.
- An event notice that only plays on the day of the event.
- Each property its own location, with its own time zone.
Reception and shared spaces
- Visitor information at reception and notices in the kitchen.
- A fire alarm test notice that runs for one morning and then disappears.
- Editors from each team keep their own slides up to date; nobody else needs access.
Waiting areas and front desks
- This month’s treatments and prices while clients wait.
- Class times for the day at a studio’s front desk, with a different list at weekends.
- A booking reminder by the door as people leave.
Locations and teams
One account for every site, and the right access for each person.
An organization holds your locations, and every screen belongs to one, which sets its time zone and its weather. With team access switched on for your organization, invite people by email and give each a role. Run more than one business? Switch between organizations from the same sign-in.
Northside GroupOrganization
Northside StoreLeeds · Europe/London Front window
Station Road CaféYork · Europe/London Menu board Back wall
- Owner
- Everything, including deleting the organization.
- Admin
- Everything else: team, locations, adding and removing screens.
- Editor
- Media, playlists and schedules, and sending commands to screens.
- Viewer
- Sees everything, changes nothing.
Pricing
One plan, and nothing to pay yet.
New organizations start on Starter. Paid plans and billing aren’t part of ScreenQ yet, so there is no card to enter.
Starter
New organizations- screens
- 3
- media storage
- 200 MB
- per file
- 100 MB
- Playlists, schedules and item time windows
- All four kinds of content
- Locations, and team members with roles once team access is on
- Offline alerts by email
- Screenshots, once the Android app is out
FAQ
Questions people ask first.
How do I get started?
Sign up with your email and tell us the name of your business. We look at every request before an organization is set up; once yours is approved you are its owner and can add locations and screens straight away.
Which TVs does ScreenQ work with?
Anything that can open a web page full screen: many smart TVs, Android TV sticks and boxes, or a small PC plugged into the screen. The player is built for older TV browsers, back to Chromium 63, but TV browsers vary, so open s.screenq.tv/tv-check on yours before you rely on it.
Do I need to install anything?
No. You manage everything in the console in your own browser, and the TV opens s.screenq.tv. A ScreenQ app for Android TV devices is planned; it will add screenshots and remote restarts.
What happens if the internet goes down?
The screen keeps playing what it already has, and it works out its own schedule, so timed changes still happen. Anything you changed in the meantime reaches it when it is back online.
What can I put on a screen?
Pictures (JPEG, PNG, WebP), H.264 MP4 videos, text slides with a heading and a message, and a clock with the local weather. Videos in HEVC or AV1 are not accepted; export them as H.264 MP4.
How much does it cost?
New organizations start on the Starter plan: 3 screens, 200 MB of storage and files up to 100 MB. Billing is not part of ScreenQ yet, so there is nothing to pay and no card to enter.
Can other people help run our screens?
Yes, once team access is switched on for your organization; say so when you request access. Then invite them by email as an owner, admin, editor or viewer. Editors can change media, playlists and schedules without being able to add screens or manage the team.
Is there a password?
No. You sign in with a link or a 6-digit code sent to your email. A paired TV never signs in at all: it keeps its pairing until you remove it.