September 16, 2026
Signital blog
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We have rebuilt the Signital portal from the sign-in page to the display page. The nouns are the same: displays, channels, playlists, media and widgets. What changed is how quickly you can answer the two questions every screen operator asks: is everything online, and what is each screen playing? Here is a walk through what is new, and the thinking behind it.
The first page after you sign in is now the Dashboard. It opens with an uptime ring showing the share of your displays that are online, followed by the counts: online, offline and not yet connected. Displays that have never connected are left out of the ring, so an install in progress does not read as downtime.
Below it, Needs attention lists only the displays that were online and then dropped out, each with its location and how long it has been gone. Click a row and you are on that display’s page. If nothing is wrong, the card says so: Everything is online.
Every location then gets a card with its own health bar and the displays in it, each marked Online, Offline or Not connected together with the channel it follows. Give each display a location under Settings and the Dashboard groups them by site for you.
Open live wall at the bottom of the sidebar opens Live Overview: every display grouped by location, refreshed every 30 seconds. Cards shows a preview of the channel each display follows with its status pill. Compact shrinks each display to a dot and a name so a fleet of hundreds fits on one page, and each location heading gets an offline count when any are down.
One honest detail: the card preview is the channel the display follows, not a photograph of the panel. The portal never claims to know what a screen shows at this exact second, because no signage system reliably can. Live preview on the display page renders the published plan exactly as the player does.
The player on a new device shows a 5-character code and a QR code. In the portal you open the display, press Connect and type the code into five cells; the fifth character submits it. Or scan the QR code with your phone, tap the display it should become, and you are done. The scanned route can even create the display for you.
Codes never contain the letter O or the digit 0, so there is nothing to misread, and a device left waiting gets a fresh code every 45 minutes. The steps are the same on Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Android, BrightSign, Raspberry Pi and in a web browser at signital.tv. On Amazon Fire TV you type the code: the Amazon Appstore does not allow the QR code.
Every edit to a plan is now a draft. Add items, reorder them, change the layout, and the display keeps playing what it had. Cards and pages carry an Unpublished pill until you press Publish changes, at which point every display following that plan fetches the new version within a few seconds.
This is the change we hear the most about. You can rebuild a whole channel during the working day and release it in one go, and a half-finished menu never appears on a wall. The Preview card shows the draft; Live preview shows what is playing right now.
New workspaces get a Set up Signital panel at the bottom of the sidebar with four required steps: workspace, display, connection and first content. It ticks steps by looking at your workspace, not by recording clicks, so a display added by a colleague ticks the step for everyone. When you are live, it turns into a short list of suggestions, each with a Show me where button that takes you to the right page.
Workspaces are on the Standard or the Business plan. Business adds proof-of-play analytics, custom layouts, custom fonts, the Display status widget, and Reboot device and Screen schedule in Manage device. Locked features stay visible with a lock and an Upgrade button, so you can see what Business adds before you switch. An upgrade unlocks everything immediately and is billed at the Business rate from your next renewal.
Channels still let any number of displays follow one plan. Playlists are still built once and dropped into any plan as a single row. All 19 widget types are on both plans, and every upload to Media still becomes a widget of the same name that you can schedule straight away. The documentation at docs.signital.com now describes every page of the portal, screen by screen.
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