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Add location

How to add a location from the location dashboard, defining name, organization, address, photo, tags, and a custom ID for easier device management.

Add new Organization in Box

Step-by-step guide to creating a new organization in signageOS Box, including company selection, device plan setup, and REST API options.

Alert Rules

Alert Rules help you define under which conditions you will be alerted on a variety of events happening with your devices.

Alert rules setup

How to connect Content Guard with Alert Manager and monitor your device tags.

Alerts

Overview of the Alerts section in Box, where triggered Alert Rules are listed, filtered, snoozed, or resolved, with an Alert Detail view of affected devices.

App Update

View and remotely update the signageOS application version on your devices to access the latest features.

Applets overview

Overview of the Applets page in Box for listing, searching, filtering, and managing Applets across your organizations, including readiness and type details.

Box Overview

The signageOS Box is your all-in-one device management and monitoring platform (MDM) tailored for digital signage, kiosks, and POS.

Brightness / Backlight

Monitor and remotely configure display backlight brightness levels, including scheduled brightness changes throughout the day.

Bulk actions

Guide to Bulk actions in Box for running power actions, policy changes, and Applet assignments or updates on many devices at once, with scheduling and batching.

Command Center and working set

Open the Command Center with Cmd/Ctrl+K to search devices, locations, pages, and commands from anywhere in Box, and keep the pages you are working on in the working-set tray.

Company management

When creating or managing a company in signageOS, you will see two fields: Title and Name (Handle).

Creating a new device policy

Step-by-step guide to creating and configuring a Device Policy in Box, including universal settings, scheduled actions, applets, plugins, runners, and packages.

Custom Scripts Execution

How to execute Custom Scripts on devices on demand from the Box device detail or REST API, and view execution results and history.

Device Applet Logs

Access applet logs reported by HTML5 apps running on devices, including custom logs, offline caching, and CSV or REST API export.

Device Battery

Battery-enabled devices like tablets and phones report their battery status and charging status

Device Connection Type

Explains the Auto, HTTP, and WSS connection types between devices and the signageOS Cloud, and the Connections table listing active device connections.

Device detail

Tour of the device detail page in Box, covering Power Actions and the Info, Applet, Screenshots, Settings, Uptime, Telemetries, and Troubleshooting tabs.

Device Failover configuration

Describes the on-demand failover connection that temporarily connects a device to a non-SSL server when SSL issues leave it offline and unmanageable.

Device list overview

Under Devices you find all devices you have access to. You can easily filter and check their settings.

Device Power Actions

Reference of remote Power Actions for devices, covering device actions like reboot and display on or off, Applet content actions, and policy reapply.

Device status

Explains the Online, Pending, and Offline device statuses in Box, how they are determined from websocket connections and health pings, and quick recovery options.

Device System Logs

View device system logs including power cycles, network changes, and applet events. Logs are cached offline and available via CSV or REST API.

Device tags

Guide to creating device tags in your organization, assigning them to single or multiple devices, and using tags to filter and group devices in Box.

Device Telemetries

Monitor device performance over time from a single place — the Telemetries tab on the device detail shows the latest and historical values of everything your device reports.

Device Temperature

Monitor device temperature with charts and configurable thresholds. Receive alerts when temperature exceeds defined limits.

Device Uptime

Track device connection uptime calculated from regular health checks, with second-level precision and over three months of historical data.

Device VPN

How to enable Device VPN on Fedora and Raspberry Pi devices and connect to them remotely using generated VPN configuration profiles and an OpenVPN client.

Favorites

How to favorite devices, locations, organization monitoring, and saved views in Box for quick access from the Home Dashboard and sidebar navigation.

Feature Flags

Control which Core Apps capabilities are enabled or disabled on your devices. Feature Flags allow you to manage Scripts, Plugins, Runners, and Screenshot Capture on a per-device or policy basis.

Firmware Upgrade

View current firmware versions and remotely upgrade devices to certified firmware releases with a single click.

How to Add new device via Box

This section describes how to provision signageOS Core App on supported devices via cloud-connected signageOS Platform

Introduction to AI Content Guard

AI ContentGuard (AICG) is a signageOS add-on that helps monitor and protect the content displayed on your digital signage screens.

Kiosk/IR Remote Control Lock

Lock devices to Kiosk mode and disable IR remote control to prevent misconfiguration. Includes setup via Box, Device Policy, and REST API.

Location detail

Each location has its own dashboard which helps users to control and maintain devices.

Member Roles

Member Roles are defined separately in a Company and Organization. Member Roles are based on the industry-standard approach of least privileges so you will need to explicitly grant access to your Company, Organization, and management features.

Orientation and Resolution

Remotely configure device display orientation (landscape, portrait, flipped, auto) and set resolution and framerate for external players.

Package Install

Remotely manage third-party software packages and APKs on devices — install, start, and uninstall applications on Android and Windows.

Package Installation

Learn how to install packages on a single device or across multiple devices using Device Policies in signageOS Box.

Package Management

How to manage Packages in the Box Packages section, including creating a new Package and uploading Android APK or Linux Docker container versions.

Packages for Cloud Control Overview

Explains Packages for Cloud Control, groups of Android APK or Linux Docker container versions deployed to managed devices, and how Package Versions are organized.

Password security

signageOS complies with NIST guidelines for keeping users safe by enforcing password' best practices.

Plugins

Extend the functionality of Core Apps with persistent, versioned logic. Learn how to assign, manage, and monitor Plugins on your devices.

Prompt optimizer

Create accurate Content Guard prompts fast — start from a predefined prompt, refine it with the prompt corrector, or write your own.

Remote desktop

Remote desktop lets you control a device from Box as if physically present, with live screenshots, screenshot download, and view rotation on supported platforms.

Runners

Deploy and execute continuous, long-running background tasks on your devices. Learn how to assign, manage, and monitor Runners.

Scheduled Power Action

Schedule automatic power actions such as daily reboots at specific times and days. Works offline, ideal for 24/7 device deployments.

Shell

Run an ad-hoc shell script directly on a single Linux device from its device detail page and review the history of previous executions in CloudControl.

Test Organization in Box

By default, every Company account in Box has one Organization created at the initial signup. This Organization is marked as TEST.

Time

View and remotely configure device time, timezone, and NTP server settings. Includes automatic DST handling, time validation, and incorrect time detection.

Timers

Compares Native and Proprietary Timers for scheduling when displays turn on and off to save power, and explains how to set Timers in Box, REST API, or JS API.

Volume

Monitor the current device volume level and remotely adjust it to the desired value from signageOS Box.

Web Editor for Applet in Box

Guide to the Applet web editor in Box, covering versioning, JS API selection, Code Mode, connecting devices for live preview, CLI Applets, and deployment apps.

What is Organization

Organization is a feature that helps you with organizing devices into groups based on your end-customers.

Whitelabel

Run signageOS under your own brand with Whitelabel — customize logo, colors, features, and domain while signageOS handles development and support.