# Meeting room display screens Running meeting room door and in-room screens with room names, house rules, kit instructions and manually maintained schedules, played from the screen's own browser. Source: https://channelos.tv/use-cases/meeting-room-displays ## What runs it ChannelOS plays as a web page in the browser the screen already has: Android TV, Google TV, webOS, Fire TV, a Chromebox, or a laptop in kiosk mode on the HDMI port. There is also a native Android TV app, downloaded as an APK from channelos.tv rather than from Google Play. There is no media player box to buy and no per-device licence. ## What goes on the screen - **The room's name and number.** At a size that reads from the corridor. Renaming a room is an edit rather than a new engraved plate. - **What is in the room.** Capacity, the screen, the conferencing kit, how to connect to it. The questions asked at the start of every meeting by whoever got there first. - **House rules and today's note.** Clear the room by the hour, no food in this one, this room is out for works until Friday. The last of those placed on its dates so it removes itself. - **A manually maintained day list.** Where a small number of rooms are booked by one person, the day's list can be typed and placed on the hours. Honest about being typed. ## When ChannelOS is the wrong answer Read this before buying, because for most offices ChannelOS is the wrong answer here. There is no calendar integration: no Microsoft 365, no Google Workspace, no Exchange, no room resource sync. The screen cannot show what is booked, cannot show free or busy, cannot be used to book or release a room, and has no occupancy sensing or check-in. If the requirement is a door panel that reflects the calendar and lets somebody claim the room, buy a room booking product built for that. ChannelOS covers the part of a room screen that is a sign: the name, the kit, the rules and a notice. ## Questions ### Can ChannelOS show what is booked in a meeting room? Not from your calendar. There is no Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or Exchange integration and no room resource sync, so a schedule on the screen is one somebody typed and it will not change when a booking changes. If the screen has to reflect the calendar, a room booking product is the correct purchase and this is a genuine reason to buy one. ### Can somebody book or release the room from the screen? No. There is no booking, check-in, release or occupancy sensing, and no touch interaction model, so the screen is a sign rather than a panel. Products built for room booking do all of this and ChannelOS does none of it. ### What is a ChannelOS room screen actually good for then? The parts that are a sign and that still go out of date: the room's name and capacity, what conferencing kit is in it and how to connect, the house rules, and today's notice such as the room being out for works until Friday. Those change more often than people expect and are usually a printed sheet taped to the door. ### Can a room be marked out of service for a date range? Yes. A show sits on a channel's timeline with a date range, so an out-of-service board can run for exactly the days of the works and the room's normal board resumes afterwards with nobody taking a sign down. ### What hardware do door screens need? A display with a browser, which for small door panels usually means a cheap HDMI stick or a small Android device rather than a smart TV. ChannelOS plays in the browser, and there is a native Android TV app, downloaded as an APK from our own site rather than from Google Play. Portrait is a first-class shape, which matters because door panels are usually on their end. ### How much does a room screen cost? Per screen per month at the rates on the pricing page, with the first screen free forever. Free screens carry a ChannelOS banner that opens into a full slide roughly every two minutes, which on a door panel in a client-facing office is normally a reason to be on a paid plan. ## Related - [Digital signage for offices](https://channelos.tv/blog/digital-signage-for-office): Lobbies, meeting rooms and internal comms, and where each one stops. - [Lobby and welcome screens](https://channelos.tv/use-cases/lobby-and-welcome-screens): The reception board, and the visitor system it is not. - [Portrait screens](https://channelos.tv/blog/portrait-digital-signage-tv): Designing for a door panel on its end rather than rotating a board. - [Answers](https://channelos.tv/answers): What it costs, what runs it, what happens when the wifi drops.