TV screens

Menu boards that fill from your live menu, designed here and paired to a TV with a code.

Restaurant → Screens

The screens list

  1. Add screen — design a new board; New slideshow rotates several.
  2. The TV address — open it in the TV's browser; it shows a pairing code.
  3. Your screens — each board with copy, delete and Edit.
The TV screens list with the add button, the TV address and a board numbered
The TV screens list. Click to enlarge.

Add a screen

Add screen opens the starter designs — pick one and it copies in, ready to edit. New slideshow instead links boards you already have into a rotation.

The starter designs offered when you add a screen
Starter designs for a new board. Click to enlarge.

Put it on the TV

  1. On the TV, open the address shown, or scan the QR code. The TV displays a pairing code.
  2. Type that code into Code from TV, and name the TV if you want.
  3. Press Pair TV. The board starts playing and stays on it.

Any device with a browser works — a smart TV, a stick, or a small media player.

The screen then reads Connected and counts the TVs showing it — one design can drive several. Disconnect unpairs. Codes are rate-limited, so repeated wrong attempts ask you to wait.

The pairing panel: QR code, code from TV and the Pair TV button numbered
Pairing a TV. Click to enlarge.

The board fills itself

You design the layout; the dishes and prices come from your live menu. Change a price on Dishes and the board follows. Nobody re-makes a board because a price moved, which is the entire point of it.

Choosing a layout

LayoutShows
Full menuColumns of food. The workhorse.
Menu + mediaThe menu beside an image or video panel — left, middle or right.
Full-screen videoOne dish spotlighted, with or without a product overlay.
FeaturedA few hero products.

The preview updates as you go, drawing from your real menu, so what you see is what the TV shows.

Columns

A menu column carries a category, an optional heading, how many items, and a width. Setting a category to Auto takes the next one in menu order — which is how a three-column board fills itself as your menu grows rather than needing rebuilding.

Per column you choose whether to show numbers, descriptions and calories, and where calories sit — beside the name, under the description, or under the price.

Appearance

SettingOptions
ThemeLight, dark, or your own colour with an accent.
OrientationHorizontal or vertical — vertical for a screen mounted portrait.
ShowDish images, header, footer, and the cuisine flag beside your logo.

Media is an uploaded image or MP4, or a YouTube link.

Dark themes read better on a wall. A bright white board in a dim room is glare; the same board dark is legible from the door. Look at it from where customers actually stand before settling.

When it doesn't work

"That code did not match a waiting screen"

The code expired or was mistyped. Reload the TV to get a fresh one.

A freshly uploaded video is not on the board

Save the screen first. The note beside the preview says so — the preview is live, the clip arrives after saving.

The board is empty or half-full

Its columns point at categories with nothing available in them, or the item count is higher than the category holds.

The TV shows nothing after a power cut

Most TVs do not restore a browser page. Either use a media player that reopens the address on boot, or re-open it by hand. It is the commonest real-world failure with menu boards.

Deleting a screen

Any TV showing it disconnects immediately. The confirmation says so.

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