We're glad to announce that Amazon has rolled out a partner level API to enable deeper integration into the FireTV operating system. With the recent update it's possible to schedule the on and off hours for the TV that is connected to the signage stick. Internally the stick sends a HDMI-CEC signal to the TV via HDMI cable. The TV needs to support HDMI-CEC and the controls need to be enabled. https://playsignage.com/support/schedule-tv-digital-signage/#tv-on-off-play

CAP Alerts allow you to display real-time emergency notifications, weather warnings, and public safety messages directly on your digital signage screens. This feature helps organizations communicate urgent information quickly and ensure viewers stay informed when it matters most. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use CAP Alerts in Play Digital Signage and integrate live alert feeds into your content strategy. Watch the full tutorial at https://playsignage.com/support/cap/

Hello everyone, I've been working on several outdoor digital signage projects recently and wanted to share some of the major technical challenges we've encountered when deploying LCD displays in outdoor or semi-outdoor environments. Unlike indoor installations, outdoor digital signage must handle direct sunlight, wide temperature swings, moisture, dust, and long-term durability. Many standard displays that work well indoors fail much faster outdoors. Here are the biggest risks I think are worth paying attention to: Poor Visibility in Direct Sunlight One of the most common issues is screens becoming unreadable under bright daylight. Standard 300-500 nits panels often wash out completely. Key contributing factors include insufficient backlight brightness, surface reflections, and air gaps between the LCD and cover glass. Common effective solutions: high-brightness backlights (1000+ nits), anti-reflective coatings, anti-glare treatment, and especially optical bonding. Overheating and Thermal Management Solar radiation combined with high-brightness backlights can easily push internal temperatures above 70°C, causing brightness decay, color shift, and reduced lifespan. Useful approaches include good heatsink design, thermal interface materials, ambient light sensors for automatic brightness adjustment, and proper enclosure ventilation. Moisture, Condensation and Corrosion Rain, humidity, and temperature cycling often lead to internal condensation, fogging, and PCB corrosion. Important protections: IP65/IP67 enclosures, conformal coating, waterproof connectors, pressure equalization vents, and optical bonding. UV Degradation and Material Aging Long-term sunlight exposure causes polarizer yellowing, adhesive failure, and plastic degradation. Using UV-resistant materials and coatings makes a big difference over time. Extreme Temperature Operation & Mechanical Stress Wide temperature ranges and vibration (especially in transportation or public installations) require wide-temperature panels and ruggedized mounting solutions. I’d love to hear from others in the community: What are the most common failures you’ve seen in outdoor digital signage installations? Which solutions (optical bonding, cooling methods, enclosure design, etc.) have worked best for you in real projects? If you're interested in a more detailed breakdown, I found this article What Are the Biggest Risks in Outdoor LCD Deployment? quite helpful as a reference. Looking forward to your experiences and suggestions! Thank you!

Nice! This creates less clutter for my clients

Hello, We have added default font size and font family options, they're in "Default values" section in the profile page. You may need to clear webapp caches to see them. As for the padding, we did not add this option, I will give few tips on other ways of how to align You can copy-paste elements from same slide or other slides (and even playlists), they will be pasted exactly in the same coordinates as the copied element was. You can use button sin the editor or ctrl + c and ctrl + v shortcuts. You can also select a group of object (press shift and keep adding objects to selection). The group of objects can be also copied and pasted in same slide, other slides or even cross-playlists. You can move objects with arrow keys, and also hold shift to move objects faster.

I want to share my experience with other users. For some days ago i used the RSS ticker in playlist. I inserted this playlist in the main template. This results in a very unsmooth ticker behavior. Now i added the ticker directly to the template and that works great. If you want to add an image of time plugin just before this ticker....The ticker always has the highest layer and the ticker info is crossing over this plugin (or image). Solution: Make a playlist and insert here the time plugin of the image. Insert this playlist in the template. Now you can have a time plugin or image before of after the ticker. Hope this helps, regards René