Getting started
From an empty workspace to a display playing your content. The portal walks you through the same steps in the Set up Signital panel at the bottom of the sidebar; this page explains each one.
Start your free trial
Go to signital.app/register (opens in a new tab), enter your company name, address, email and a password, and press Start free trial. Your workspace is created and the panel's first step, Workspace created, is already ticked.
Add a location (optional)
A location is a site your displays are at. It groups displays on the Dashboard and Live Overview and sets their local time zone.
Go to Settings › Locations, press Add location, and fill in Name, Address and Timezone. The address places a pin on the map. You can skip this step and come back later. See Locations.
Add a display
The panel calls this step Add a screen. In the portal, go to Displays and press Add display. The Add Display dialog asks for:
- Name, for example "Reception" or "Menu board left".
- Channel. Leave it as it is for now; the display starts on its own plan.
- Location, if you added one.
- Orientation, landscape or portrait.
- Notes, anything you want to remember about it.
Press Save. The display page opens with a Pairing code in the Device details card, because nothing is connected to it yet. That is the display's own code in the portal; the code you type in the next step comes from the device.
Connect it
Install the Signital player on the device, or open signital.tv (opens in a new tab) in its browser. It shows a 5-character pairing code and a QR code. Then either:
- On the display page press Connect and type the code into the five cells. The fifth character submits it.
- Scan the QR code with your phone and tap the display in the list that opens.
Player not installed yet? The section of that name in the dialog links to each platform's store or download. The full steps are in Connect a display and the Player guides. When the display connects, the pill in its header changes to Online.
Add content
The quickest first content is an image. Go to Media, press Upload a file or drag an image onto the page. It appears in the grid, and a widget of the same name is created for you.
You can also build a live widget under Widgets › Add widget, for example the weather or a clock. See Widgets.
Put it on the display
Go back to the display page. In the Scheduled plan card press + Add to plan. The wizard has three steps:
- Choose a widget. Pick Image.
- Select your media. Pick the image you uploaded.
- Set the schedule. Leave Always show selected and press Add to plan.
The item is now on the plan, but only as a draft. Press Publish changes in the page header. Within a few seconds the display shows your image. See Add to plan and Publishing changes.
Invite the team (optional)
Go to Settings › Users, press Add user, and fill in Name, Email, Role and a password. Colleagues can then publish without you. See Users & roles.
You're live
When the four required steps are done, the panel shows You're live. Press Done and it changes into Get more out of Signital, a short list of suggestions. Each one opens to a sentence of explanation and a Show me where button that takes you to the right place. They disappear on their own once you have done them.
| Suggestion | What it means | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Set a default widget | What a display falls back to when nothing is scheduled. | Playback defaults |
| Schedule by day and time | Show the lunch menu from 11 to 14, weekdays only. | Scheduling |
| Set your brand styles | Every new widget inherits your type and colours. | Brand styles |
| Show the same content on every screen | A channel plays across as many displays as you point at it. | Channels |
| Reuse a sequence as a playlist | Build a run of content once, drop it into any channel. | Playlists |
| Show more than one thing at once | Split the display. A calendar beside a video. | Split screen & layouts |
| Add something live | Weather, calendars, news and dashboards that update themselves. | Widget catalog |
| Upload your brand fonts | Use your own typefaces. Business plan. | Custom fonts |
Progress in the panel is read from your workspace, not recorded when you click. A display added by a colleague ticks the step for everyone, and a workspace that was set up before the panel existed opens with the suggestions straight away.
Next
- Key concepts, the five nouns everything else is built on.
- Displays, everything on the display page.
- Connect a display, the pairing steps in full.