Schedule what every screen plays, by day and time

Each screen can have an everyday playlist. Assigning a playlist to a screen creates its default schedule at priority 0, and that playlist plays whenever nothing else is due. A screen with no everyday playlist and no schedule due shows nothing.

Schedules you add take over at the times you set. When a schedule ends, the everyday playlist comes back by itself. If more than one schedule is due at the same moment, the one with the highest priority plays. Priorities run from 0 to 1000 and new schedules start at 10. If two share a priority, the one edited most recently wins.

• An optional start date and end date. The end cannot be before the start.
• Days of the week, Sunday to Saturday. Leave them all unticked to run every day.
• An optional daily time window. If you set one, give it both a start and an end time. Leave it empty to run all day.
• Windows that cross midnight, such as 22:00 to 02:00.
• Times in the shop's own time zone, chosen when you add the shop. Malaysia time is the default.

Yes. Each schedule targets a single screen, a screen group or every screen in a shop. Groups such as "Front window" or "Counter" are made per shop, and you can add or remove screens at any time. A group that a schedule still uses cannot be deleted by mistake.

A playlist is portrait or landscape, and it must match the screens it targets, so a portrait menu never lands on a landscape TV.

Here is one way a shop might set up its week. Every row is a separate schedule on top of the everyday playlist.

Just before a time window opens or closes, screens check in more often so the switch is on time. A screen downloads a scheduled playlist's new files when it becomes due and keeps playing what it has until they are ready, so a big new video on a slow connection can start a little late. A switch to a different playlist happens promptly, even part way through an item. Edits to the playlist that is already playing wait for the end of the current loop, so nothing cuts off half way.

OutDeck works out schedules online. A screen that is offline keeps playing what it already has, and switches to whatever is due when it reconnects.

Each schedule belongs to one shop, because each shop has its own screens and time zone. Put the promo in a shared playlist, then add a schedule for it in each shop. When you edit the shared playlist, every shop gets the change.

Display hours, the time each screen goes dark after closing, are a separate setting on each screen.