For hotels and venues
A wedding moves from the Garden Room to the Library at four in the afternoon and the A-frame sign outside the door still says Garden Room. Function signage fails on the same day it matters, which is why so much of it ends up handwritten.
No card · no box to buy · pairs in about two minutes
What goes on the screen
The room name, the event, the host and the time, on the screen outside the door. Reschedule it from the front desk and the door sign changes in seconds.
Today's events, the weather, checkout time, the wifi name. One board that stops being four printed cards taped to a desk.
Breakfast through to the late menu on one channel, each board placed on the hours it belongs to, so the screen swaps service periods with nobody in the building.
Spa hours, gym access, where the ice machine is. The questions reception answers forty times a day, answered once on a screen.
How it is different
Every one of these is a mechanism rather than a promise, so you can confirm each of them on a free screen before you pay for anything.
A paired screen holds a connection and derives what it shows from the schedule in real time. Change the board and the screens follow in seconds. There is no publish step, no playlist to re-download and no interval to tune.
Not a playlist. A channel is a named feed with a daily and weekly plan plus date-scoped overrides, so a board can hold Tuesday afternoons, a campaign can own one fortnight, and a screen tuned in follows its own clock all year without anyone touching it.
Below a laptop width the whole editor swaps chrome rather than shrinking: a bottom tool bar, a selection bar that navigates as a menu stack, and the deck one tap from the slide counter. Fixing a wrong price from the shop floor is the normal way to use it.
Describe the board in a sentence, or hand over the PDF you already print from, and the assistant drafts a real editable show. It stays available to reword, restyle or rebuild a slide by chat, and the same assistant answers product questions in the app.
Android TV, Google TV, webOS, Fire TV, a Chromebox or a laptop in kiosk mode, paired by scanning a code with your phone. There is a native Android TV app too, downloaded as an APK from our own site rather than from Google Play. No media player box, no per-device licence, nothing to sideload.
Nothing to install, in the normal case: open the player URL in the screen's own browser and scan the code with your phone. If you would rather install an app, the native Android TV app is a free download from our own site rather than from Google Play, and a screen running it is on exactly the same plan as a screen running the browser.
When to buy something else
ChannelOS does not talk to a property management system. It will not pull arrivals out of Opera, Mews or Cloudbeds, it does not drive in-room TV menus or guest messaging, and it has no folio or room-charge anything. If the requirement is a lobby board whose event list is generated from the PMS, buy a hospitality signage product with that integration and expect to pay for it. ChannelOS fits the hotel that wants its public screens to be current and good-looking, and is content for a human at the front desk to be the one who changes them.
Questions
More of these on Answers, which covers cost, hardware and what happens when the wifi drops.
A screen that is already playing keeps playing if the wifi drops, but it needs the connection back to come up again after a power cut, because nothing is cached on the television itself. If a screen has to survive a long outage entirely on its own, buy a player from a company that sells one and ask them about local storage. That is a real reason to pay for hardware. Ours is not one of them.
Keep reading
How a second property costs no extra work once the board is on a channel.
What a lobby board should hold, and the four printed cards it replaces.
Taking over every screen at once, and putting them back on schedule afterwards.
The native app, and when installing it beats pointing the built-in browser at the player URL.
Boards you can remix: hotels & hospitality templates , each one opening in your own workspace in a single click.
Pair a screen, put a board on it, and see whether the mechanism above holds before you pay for anything. The first screen is free forever.
Pricing shows what a second screen costs and what the free one leaves out.
Free screens show a ChannelOS banner, and about every 2 minutes it opens into a full ChannelOS slide; any paid plan removes both.
Sell it instead of buying it. The ChannelOS partner program pays 20% of what each business you refer pays us for their first 12 months, then 10% for as long as they stay. Free to join, nothing to stock.
See the partner program →