Millions of TVs and streaming boxes run Android TV, and every one of them can be a digital sign. Install a browser from the Play Store, open your screen's player URL, and manage playlists, schedules and designs from the TVpilot dashboard. No proprietary player box, no extra hardware.
Free plan, no credit card required. Paid plans from €5/month.
TVpilot runs on Android TV through a browser app such as TV Bro (free on the Play Store). That means any Android TV or Google TV device that can install a browser works: smart TVs, Chromecast with Google TV, or a generic Android TV box.
Sign up free and click "Add screen". Choose Android TV as the device type and you get a short player URL for that screen.
On the Android TV, open the Play Store and install a browser built for TV remotes, such as TV Bro. Any browser that can open a URL works.
In the browser, type the short play URL from your dashboard. The screen connects and starts showing its assigned playlist immediately.
Switch the browser to fullscreen and bookmark the page, so you can reopen your signage in two clicks after a restart. From then on, all content changes happen in the dashboard.
Once the Android TV shows your player URL, you never touch the remote again for content changes.
Images, videos, web pages and PDFs in one playlist, with drag-and-drop ordering and transitions. Build it once, reuse it across screens.
Show the breakfast menu in the morning and the happy hour promo after five: content can be scheduled per time slot and per day of the week.
No designer needed. Describe a promo, menu or welcome screen in a short brief and AI Studio generates a designed signage screen for you.
The dashboard shows online/offline status and heartbeats for every screen, so you know a display went dark before a customer tells you.
Mount the TV either way: each screen has its own orientation setting and content adapts to it.
Start free with one screen. When you add locations, the same dashboard manages the whole fleet, from €5/month for five screens.
Not yet. TVpilot runs on Android TV through a browser app: install one from the Play Store (TV Bro works well), open your screen's player URL once, go fullscreen, and manage all content from the dashboard. It behaves like a signage player without an app install.
Any Android TV or Google TV device that can install a browser from the Play Store: smart TVs from brands like Sony, Philips or TCL, a Chromecast with Google TV, or a generic Android TV box. For smooth video playback, a recent device is the safer choice; for menus and images, almost anything works.
In the Android TV settings, disable the screensaver and set the sleep or idle timer to off (or its maximum). Combined with a fullscreen browser, the player then runs continuously through opening hours.
Open the browser and tap the bookmark you saved: the screen reconnects and resumes its playlist. Android TV cannot auto-start a browser page after a reboot, so this one manual step is the trade-off versus a Raspberry Pi setup, where the TVpilot player recovers by itself.
Yes. Web pages are a first-class playlist item, so you can rotate a live dashboard, a booking calendar, or any URL alongside images, videos and PDFs.
The software is free for 1 screen with 500 MB storage, no credit card required. Starter is €5/month for up to 5 screens, Pro €19/month for up to 25. The only hardware is the Android TV you probably already have.
Use the hardware you already own; the software starts at €0.
All plans include a 14-day free trial. No credit card required to start.
Create a free account, add a screen, open one URL in a TV browser, and your Android TV digital signage is live tonight. For 24/7 unattended screens that must survive power cuts on their own, the Raspberry Pi route below is the robust choice.
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