The TV player app: any TV becomes managed signage

No proprietary hardware, no screen tax

Signage vendors love selling you their box. React Signs Digital takes the opposite approach: the player app runs on standard, inexpensive Android media players connected to any modern TV over HDMI, and outputs content at full 1080p (1920×1080). Your existing TVs work. Replacement hardware is a commodity purchase, not a vendor negotiation.

Pairing takes one code

On first launch, the app shows a 6-character activation code (ambiguous characters like O/0 and I/1 are excluded, so there's no misreading it over the phone). Enter that code in your dashboard and the screen is paired to your account, named, and ready for a playlist or menu. One code pairs one screen — codes can't be reused to hijack a device onto another TV.

Content is cached, so playback doesn't depend on Wi-Fi

The app downloads playlist videos and images to local storage and plays from there. The server sends a cache manifest with every playlist, and the app keeps itself tidy automatically: stale files are deleted, missing files are fetched. If the venue's internet drops, the screen keeps playing what it has and re-syncs when the connection returns. Misbehaving cache? A Clear Cache button in the dashboard tells the device to wipe and re-download the current playlist fresh — remotely.

Two display modes for two jobs

• Playlist mode cycles through content items — videos, images, menus, web pages — in order. Built for promotions, ads, and mixed rotations.
• Menu mode is optimized for static and scrolling menu boards: the board stays up, auto-scroll handles long menus, and dayparting swaps menus by time of day.

The mode is set per screen from the dashboard, so the same hardware serves both jobs.

The dashboard always knows how the screen is doing

The app checks in with the platform on a regular heartbeat, reporting online/offline status and a last-seen timestamp. Updates you make — new playlists, price changes, pushed content — are delivered on these check-ins and over a live connection, and the dashboard shows when a push is queued for an offline device and confirms delivery once it lands. Screens in a screen group additionally receive synchronized wall-mode commands with their grid position.

Set it, mount it, forget it

After pairing, the screen needs no on-site attention: it reconnects automatically after power or network interruptions and resumes its assigned content. Everything operational — content, mode, cache, playlist changes — is handled from the dashboard, which is what makes running ten or a hundred screens practical for one person.

Installation, step by step

1. Mount the TV where it earns attention — behind the counter for menus, in the waiting area for promotions and ads.
2. Connect the media player to the TV over HDMI, power it, and join it to the venue's Wi-Fi or Ethernet.
3. Open the player app. The screen displays its 6-character activation code.
4. Pair from anywhere. Enter the code in the dashboard — you don't have to be in the building; staff can read the code to you.
5. Assign content and mode. Give the screen a playlist or menu, choose playlist or menu mode, and it starts playing at 1080p.

When something looks wrong, start at the dashboard

Most "screen problems" resolve without a site visit. The dashboard tells you which case you're in: if the screen shows offline with an old last-seen timestamp, it's power or network at the venue — have staff check the outlet and router. If it's online but showing stale content, push the current playlist or hit Clear Cache to make the device wipe and re-download everything fresh. Because state lives in the cloud, even swapping a failed media player is quick: plug in a new one and pair it with a fresh code.

One app, every role on the network

The same player app covers every job a screen can have. In playlist mode it cycles videos, images, and web content for promotions and advertising. In menu mode it renders menu boards optimized for static and auto-scrolling display. As a member of a screen group it takes synchronized wall-mode commands with its assigned grid position. That uniformity is deliberate: hardware is interchangeable, spares are generic, and repurposing a screen from ad loop to menu board is a dashboard setting — not a reinstall.