Screens and players

A stage is where content plays. A screen is the real thing on the wall — a TV, a projector, a video wall — and a player is what runs on it: a browser that opened the stage’s player link, or one of the Wunderframe apps for Android TV, Windows, macOS, Linux and Raspberry Pi.

These pages take a stage from your laptop to a screen that keeps playing on its own, and show you how to look after every screen from the office.

• Set up a screen — which player to use, the player link, pairing by code, and what IT needs to allow.
• The Android TV app — install, pair, the settings overlay and sound.
• The desktop app — a PC, a Mac or a Linux box as a screen.
• Raspberry Pi — a small, cheap player for one screen or one wall panel.
• Walls and synced screens — one picture across many screens, and screens that change together.
• Mounting and rotation — a screen hung on its side.
• Offline, caching and storage — what a screen keeps, and why it never goes black.
• Monitoring devices — the dot, the problem badges and Watch live.
• Remote settings and actions — change a screen’s settings, take a screenshot, restart or move it from the office.
• Previewing a stage — what a stage will show at any time, and why.
• Rules that choose what plays — who wins when a take, a rule and the call sheet all want the screen.

A room is a place in a venue — a hall, a breakout room, the lobby. Open Venues, the venue, then Rooms to create, rename or delete one and to choose its screens.

• A room holds any number of screens — a front screen and side screens — or none: a breakout room with only a printed QR code is a room too.
• A screen is in one room at most.
• Sessions happen in a room. A live session shows on every screen of its room, so front and side screens stay identical, unless the session uses only some of them.
• Each room has one check-in QR code for guests, valid all day — see Room check-in — and its own page on the Live board — see Operate one room.

Stages that had a Space were moved into a room of that name, in their venue, automatically.