# Atrium — Building Directory > Free, remixable office reception TV display board. Shows a welcome line, the floor and tenant directory, amenities, guest WiFi and emergency contacts. Source: https://channelos.tv/t/atrium-building-directory-6d2005a6-8f4c-4ac3-b7e3-c6d74ce4a0e2 Category: Office & lobby Shape: 16:9 (landscape) Slides: 5 Author: Community Showcase (community) Price: free --- ## What is an office reception TV display? An office reception TV display is an ordinary television in a building lobby running a looping set of slides instead of live channels. It typically shows a welcome line, the floor and tenant directory, visitor WiFi details, amenity hours and emergency contacts, updated from a browser so the front desk never reprints a board. Facilities and front desk staff run this on the lobby TV: floor directory, amenities, guest WiFi, emergency info. ## What is on this board The slides below are the template's real content, flattened to text. Remixing copies the whole deck into your own workspace, where every line is editable. ### Slide 1 of 5 - Atrium Tower · you are here - Welcome. - Find your floor below · lifts to your right. - ATRIUM TOWER · main lobby directory ### Slide 2 of 5 - Building directory - Floor Directory - L1 - Reception & Café - Ahead - L3 - Northwind Group - Lift A - L5 - Meridian Consulting - Lift A - L7 - Rooftop & Events - Lift B - ATRIUM TOWER · main lobby directory ### Slide 3 of 5 - Amenities - Café & grab-and-go - ground floor, open 7–6 - Parking · levels B1–B3 - Bike storage & showers - Accessible lift · Lift B - ATRIUM TOWER · main lobby directory ### Slide 4 of 5 - Visitors · get online - Guest WiFi - NETWORK - Atrium-Guest - PASSWORD - atrium2024 - ATRIUM TOWER · main lobby directory ### Slide 5 of 5 - In an emergency - Stay calm. Use the stairs. - Assembly: Front Plaza - Do not use the lifts · wardens in hi-vis will guide you. - ATRIUM TOWER · main lobby directory ## Frequently asked questions ### What should an office reception TV display actually show? Rank the slides by the question the person at the door is asking. First a welcome line with the building name and the date, so a visitor knows they are in the right place. Second the tenant directory, listed alphabetically by company rather than by floor, because a visitor knows who they came to see and not which floor that company sits on. Third amenities and their opening hours. Fourth the guest WiFi network and password. Fifth the security desk number and the fire assembly point. Give each slide eight to twelve seconds so the whole loop runs in about a minute, which is roughly how long someone waits at a lobby desk. ### How large should the text be on a lobby directory screen? Use the sign trade legibility rule: 25mm of capital letter height for every 3 metres of viewing distance. Pace out the distance from the screen to the far edge of the waiting area, divide by 3, and multiply by 25mm. A lobby read from 6 metres therefore needs capitals about 50mm tall, which on a 55 inch 16:9 panel is roughly 7 percent of the screen height. Set the tenant names at that size and let company suffixes and suite numbers sit smaller. Then stand at the entrance doors and read the board yourself. If you lean in, the type is too small. ### What TV should we use for a reception display? Two things decide it: how many hours a day the screen is on, and how bright the lobby is. Panels sold for commercial use are rated for long daily duty and higher brightness, while a domestic television run twelve hours a day will dim faster, and many consumer warranties limit or exclude commercial installation, so read the warranty wording before you buy. Mount a directory landscape rather than portrait: a tenant list is a two column table and portrait halves the line length. Put the screen on the same timer as the lobby lighting so it powers down overnight, and run wired ethernet if the lobby wifi is the guest network. ### How often does a building directory need updating, and who does it? Tie it to the lease, not to a calendar reminder. Add one line to the move in and move out checklist that says update the lobby directory, with a named owner, usually the facilities or front desk lead. Keep one master tenant list that every board reads from, or the screen and the printed board drift apart within a quarter. Reconcile that list against the rent roll every quarter. Check the emergency numbers and the assembly point whenever a fire drill happens, and update the guest WiFi slide the same morning IT rotates the password. On a browser based board like ChannelOS the change is live while the tenant is still standing at the desk. ## How to use it 1. Open https://channelos.tv/t/atrium-building-directory-6d2005a6-8f4c-4ac3-b7e3-c6d74ce4a0e2 and press "Use this template". Create a free account and the template opens in your own workspace. 2. Change the words, prices and photos in the editor, from a phone or a computer. 3. On the TV, open play.channelos.tv in its own browser, pair it from your phone with the code it shows, then publish the board to it. It runs in the television's own web browser. There is no media player box to buy and nothing to install. The first screen is free. Free screens show a ChannelOS banner along the bottom of the screen. Any paid plan removes it.