ScreenTinker 3.0: From Sign-Up to a Live Screen in Minutes (Open-Source Digital Signage)

Start your 14-day free trial: https://screentinker.com Prefer to run it yourself? It's open source and free to self-host: https://github.com/screentinker/scree... ScreenTinker 3.0 is the ease-of-use release. A new account is guided from sign-up to a screen showing its content: connect a screen with a 6-digit code (or a browser tab), upload photos or make a sign from 14 ready-made designs with your logo and colours. Coming from another signage app? The setup guide imports your media, playlists, layouts, schedules and screens. New accounts get a Simple view, with a Simple | Advanced switch for everything else. Also new in 3.0: Content requests: people without an account send content through a link; nothing reaches a screen until someone approves it. ScreenTinker Manager, an Android app for your phone; Your team invites. Trials keep everything when they end; plan limits explain the next plan. Screen share from the browser, Android, Pi, Windows, Mac, iPad or newer Samsung players, to several screens, with meeting-room codes for guests. Slides edit like PowerPoint. Menus from Square or Shopify. Experiments. News headlines read by your server, with pictures or as a ticker. Blank/frozen screen detection, stale content, accessibility checks, and Generate captions with OpenAI or a local Whisper server. What will a screen play at any time, and why. Energy and CO2e estimates. Private A.I. on your own hardware, starter signs, translations. Passkeys, SCIM, a full data export and a Data & privacy page. Playlist layouts with portrait versions, campaigns, TV-safe copies of tall videos, display links and mirrors, moving servers by import, site caches, YouTube "Play to end", the native Raspberry Pi player on every install, and ?autoplay_audio=1 for kiosk browsers. Platform overview: this server's health and the trial-to-paid funnel. Self-hosted servers show an occasional GitHub Sponsors ask. "Screen" is the word everywhere; Add screen puts the code first. Upgrading: Node.js 22.14+ is required, and the first start snapshots your database. On a git install run 3.0's upgrade script (see the release notes); Docker just pulls. Thanks to @gainskills (playback resumes in the foreground, #625) and @arminfauland (video posters for Android WebView, #626, and the autoplay-audio design, #627). Thank you to @Semetra22 and @hapishyguy for sponsoring ScreenTinker on GitHub Sponsors, and to everyone who sponsors privately. Everything on screen is a real ScreenTinker 3.0.0 server. Larkspur Café, Fern & Fig and Northwind Health are invented; the "TVs" are real web players, and the A.I. and captions run on the same machine. Some history (plays, energy, two screen problems, the trial-to-paid funnel) was seeded. Chapters: 0:00 ScreenTinker 3.0: from sign-up to a screen showing your sign 0:17 Easy start: import from another signage app 0:32 Connect a screen with a 6-digit code 0:52 Make a sign: 14 ready-made designs with your brand 1:08 Simple view, and pairing the old app's screens 1:30 Upload photos, and inviting your team 1:51 ScreenTinker Manager, the Android app 2:03 The trial, Simple | Advanced, and plan limits 2:22 Content requests: people without an account send content, you approve 2:55 Screen share, meeting-room codes, native players 3:24 Slides like PowerPoint, Square/Shopify menus, Experiments 3:49 News feeds read by your server 4:00 Blank/frozen screens, stale content, accessibility, captions 4:38 What will a screen play? Energy and CO2 4:51 Private A.I. and translations 5:14 Passkeys, SCIM, data export, Data & privacy 5:31 Playlist layouts, campaigns, TV-safe tall videos 5:50 Display links and mirrors, moving servers, site cache 6:12 YouTube Play to end, native Pi player, autoplay audio 6:24 Platform overview: this server and the trial-to-paid funnel 6:35 Upgrading: Node 22, the first-start snapshot, and the sponsor ask 7:01 Thanks, and the 14-day trial Release notes 3.0.0: https://github.com/screentinker/scree... Upgrading to 3.0: https://github.com/screentinker/scree...