--- title: "Activating and setting up screens" description: "Activate, name and arrange displays, with synchronised transitions on all your screens." url: "https://unipage.be/en/support/unisignage/activating-and-setting-up-screens" --- # Activating and setting up screens You can find Digital signage in the main menu of the management page. You can control as many screens with it as you like: each display contains slides, and each slide is an image that is shown for 10 seconds. ## Activating displays - By default, **Display 1** is the left-hand screen as seen from the front, and so on towards the right. - Give each display a name, choose a transition under **Slide effect** (Fade or Cube) and choose Horizontal or Vertical under **Scherm oriëntatie** (Screen orientation). Give all displays the same slide effect: this keeps the transitions in sync on all screens. ## Naming and arranging screens - Name your screens after their location, for example "Terrace left", "Back room centre" and "Back room right": this helps you keep track of things when you manage content per screen. - Drag the screens into the right order using the blocks icon, from left to right: this order determines which content appears on which screen. - For each display, choose the slide effect you want from the dropdown. ## Editing a display Click the pencil next to a display to open the slide overview: all the slides of that screen, with the actions for each slide in the three-dot menu. > **Warning:** If several screens are connected to one media player, the physical order follows the HDMI order in Windows: the order on the management page must match it. If you use several media players in one shop, use separate shops per location: each media player starts from screen 1 by default. ## Editing slides Click **Open editor** next to a display. The editor opens in a separate window and is in English. On the left you see the slides of this display: drag them into the order you want, or open the three-dot menu on a slide for **Duplicate**, **Move Slide** (to another display), **Export Slide** and **Delete**. At the bottom, you add a slide with **Empty slide** or choose a ready-made design with **Choose template**. An empty slide first asks for a layout: one component on the full screen, two side by side or one above the other, or a grid of four. Then click **Add component** and choose what goes in each area: **Hero**, **Image**, **Product List**, **Variations Product List**, **Product Group**, **Product Catalog** or **Full Page Canvas**. You can read what each component does in [Components](https://unipage.be/en/support/unisignage/components). On the right you edit the selected component. At the top you can see where you are (**Wrap**, then the column, then the component), so you can always go back to the whole. With **Slide style** at the top right, you open the settings for the whole slide. Click **Save** regularly: every saved change goes straight to your screens, and you don't need to restart a media player. ## Colours and fonts Open **Slide style** and go to the **Style** tab. Under **Theme**, choose a ready-made colour scheme (Default, White, Yellow, Red, Blue, Green or Dark green), or set the colours yourself: - **Bg primary** and **Bg secondary**: the background colour and a second colour for smaller highlighted areas. - **Text primary**, **Text primary alt** and **Text secondary**: the colour of the main text, of smaller titles and of the subtext. - **Text primary highlight**: the colour of text in highlighted areas. - **Font primary** and **Font secondary**: the font of the main text and of the subtext. ## Background photos and video On the **Backgrounds** tab, you load a background image under **Background image**. Under **Background image 2**, you can add a second image that is shown on top of the first, handy for a transparent logo or an atmosphere layer. Use images of 1920 x 1080 pixels for a landscape screen and 1080 x 1920 for a portrait screen, otherwise the image will be stretched. You set a video as the background under **Background video**; with **Span Video Across Multiple Displays**, you let one video run across several screens side by side. ## How long a slide stays on screen On the **Content** tab, you set under **Slide Duration (seconds)** how long this slide is shown, 10 seconds by default. If you work with videos across several screens, switch **View mode** at the top from **Grid** to **Timeline**: this timeline shows per display how the slides and videos are timed in relation to each other. ## Scheduling screens Do you want to show different screens at lunchtime than in the evening, or switch the screens off after closing time? You do that under **Settings**, **Schedules (Schema's)**. Tick **Enable schedule (Schema inschakelen)** and, under **Planning per day (Planning per dag)**, create time blocks for each weekday with **Add time block (Voeg tijdsblok toe)**: a **Start time (Starttijd)**, an **End time (Eindtijd)** and, under **Display selection (Displayselectie)**, which displays are active in that block. With **Copy to other days (Kopieer naar andere dagen)**, you copy a day's schedule across in one go. The **Overview** shows your whole week at a glance. If the schedule is off, all displays are active around the clock. Outside the time blocks, the screens show nothing. Tick **Show display information during blank mode (Toon informatie display tijdens blanco modus)** if you would rather see a clock, the date and the next schedule than a black screen. > **Good to know:** Under **Settings**, **Status**, you see for each media player whether it is online and playing, when it last made contact, and you can restart it remotely. --- *This is a markdown version of [https://unipage.be/en/support/unisignage/activating-and-setting-up-screens](https://unipage.be/en/support/unisignage/activating-and-setting-up-screens) for AI/LLM use. Every page on https://unipage.be is available as markdown by appending `.md` to the URL; see also [https://unipage.be/llms.txt](https://unipage.be/llms.txt).*