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Screenly
What Is Screenly?
Screenly is the original and most popular Raspberry Pi-based digital signage solution. We power over 10,000 screens around the world. Customers can convert any TV or monitor into a beautiful digital sign.
Thanks to Screenly's easy and powerful CMS, anyone can build and manage a digital signage network. Our customers range from small business to some of the largest companies in the world.
Moreover, with Screenly's API, it's possible to integrate Screenly directly into other software tools.
Who Uses Screenly?
Screenly's focus is ease of use. Customers range from small businesses to large enterprises. Use cases include from retail signage, office signage, and info-boards.
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Reviews of Screenly
It is just simple to use.
Pros:
Easy of access, dependability and updating
Cons:
It would be nice to auto update playlists by adding a folder so that anything in the content folder is automatically added to the playlist, but that may not apply to all people.
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Screenly missed the mark.
Comments: It was ok until they changed their platform and started doing the subscription packages for more functionality.
Pros:
Until they changed their model to subscription based, the Open source version was pretty well put together. Now that they have changed their platform, the free version is very limited if it still is free.
Cons:
The OSE version was limited to one screen. And configuration was for the beyond beginner crowd, so having some IT background is necessary.
Beautiful screens, not-so-beautiful features
Pros:
The screens and resolution were beautiful on this product. Additionally, we were able to deploy hundreds of custom assets and playlists in a matter of hours.
Cons:
We were siloed in to only using raspberry pi units and there were no transitions between graphics. When we changed the infrastructure of our wifi systems, the support documentation was zero help. We instead had to flash each of our 20+ units manually and reconfigure each on the new wifi. There should be an option built in to the ScreenlyOS image on the raspberry pi to modify wifi configs.
Screenly Review
Comments:
it has all been good- easy to use user experience and dashboard
great customers service as well
Pros:
easy to use and good customer service great user interface on desktop and mobile
Cons:
the only issue i have experienced is when a device goes offline but usually that just requires recycling the power on the Screenly device ... does not happen often overall it has all been good
Works but costs for voluntary sector
Comments: Support is good but occasionally a little slow. We actually went back to screenly after using the free Kiosk.show for a while as budget is our issue. This product is not in your list to select from in the next item of the survey. It's been very good but not being updated now.
Pros:
Saves time, remote editing, plays nice with Google slides.
Cons:
Cost for voluntary organisation is high.
