A Fire TV Stick is the lowest-cost hardware route to digital signage: plug it into any TV, open your screen's player URL in the Silk browser, and manage everything else from the TVpilot dashboard. No proprietary media player, no monthly hardware fees, and if there is already an Amazon Fire TV Stick in a drawer somewhere, your hardware cost is exactly zero.
Free plan, no credit card required. Paid plans from €5/month.
TVpilot runs on the Amazon Fire TV Stick through the free Silk browser, so there is nothing to sideload, no developer mode to enable, and nothing that breaks with the next Fire OS update. Any Fire TV Stick that can install Silk from the Amazon app store works, which in practice means every generation Amazon still sells. This is everything you need to put content on a TV:
Sign up free and click "Add screen". Choose Fire TV Stick as the device type and you get a short player URL for that screen, the only address the TV ever needs to know.
On the Fire TV home screen, search the Amazon app store for "Amazon Silk browser". It is free, made by Amazon itself, and installs in under a minute.
In Silk, type the short play URL from your dashboard. Your screen connects and shows its assigned playlist immediately; from this moment the Stick is a signage player.
Switch Silk to fullscreen and bookmark the page so you can reopen it in two clicks after a restart. All content changes happen from the dashboard from then on; you never plug a USB stick into the TV again.
Once the Stick shows your player URL, you never touch the TV again for content changes. Everything below works the same whether you run one screen or a fleet across several locations.
Images, videos, web pages and PDFs live together in one playlist, with drag-and-drop ordering and smooth transitions. Web pages are a first-class item, so a live dashboard, your Instagram page or any URL can rotate alongside your own media. Mount the TV landscape or portrait: each screen has its own orientation setting and content adapts to it.
Show the lunch menu at noon and the evening promo after five: every slide can be scheduled per time slot and per day of the week, and a slide with an end date takes itself off screen when the promotion ends, so no forgotten posters in February.
Describe a promo, menu or welcome screen in a short brief and AI Studio generates a finished signage screen for you, or start from a ready-made template in the Designer and swap in your own text, photos and logo.
The dashboard shows online/offline status and heartbeats for every screen, so you know a display went dark before a customer tells you. Start free with one screen; when you add devices or locations, the same dashboard manages the whole fleet from €5/month for five screens.
For the Fire TV Stick you do not need one: TVpilot runs through the Silk browser, open your screen's player URL once, go fullscreen, and manage all content from the dashboard.
Any Amazon Fire TV Stick that can install the Silk browser works, from the basic model to the 4K Max. For smooth video playback a recent model (Fire TV Stick 4K or newer) is the safer choice; for mostly static images, menus and schedules, any Stick is fine, including older ones you already own.
On the Fire TV home screen, open the search and type "Amazon Silk browser", then choose Download. It is Amazon's own free browser, so it is always available in the Amazon app store, installs in under a minute and needs no account or payment.
In the Fire TV display settings, turn off the screensaver and sleep timer (or set them to the maximum); combined with fullscreen Silk the player then runs continuously. After a power cut, open Silk and tap the bookmark you saved: the screen reconnects and resumes its playlist. That one manual step is the main trade-off versus a Raspberry Pi setup, where TVpilot recovers fully automatically.
The software is free for 1 screen with 250 MB storage, free forever and 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 Stick and a TV, and both may already be in the building.
Use the hardware you already own; the software starts at €0.
Start on the free plan and stay there as long as you like. No credit card, no trial clock. Upgrade only when you need more screens or storage.
Create a free account, add a screen, download Silk from the Amazon app store, open one URL, and your Fire TV Stick digital signage is live tonight.
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