# Control TV screens with an AI agent > Canonical HTML: https://screenrig.ai/control-tv-screens-with-ai-agent To control a TV screen with an AI agent, install the screenRIG plugin, pair the TV and say what you want on it. Your agent makes the board, shows you a preview, puts it on the screen and checks that it got there. Updated October 27, 2026. ## Ask for the board, and a preview first The TV shows a pairing code. You read it to your agent, and from then on you talk to the TV through your agent. [Start](https://screenrig.ai/docs/start.md) installs the plugin. screenRIG is free. Pay only if you want more. > **You:** Put a welcome board on the reception TV for Cedar & Pine Architects. Show today's three guests with their times and who they're meeting, and a note to sign in at reception. Show me a preview before it goes on the TV. > > **Agent:** Here's the preview. It has all three guests with their times and who they're meeting, and the sign-in note at the bottom. Nothing is on the TV yet. ![A navy welcome board in the Cyanotype theme: Welcome to Cedar & Pine Architects, today's date, and three guests with times, companies and the person they meet](https://screenrig.ai/static-resources/images/screenshots/landing/guides-control-preview-02a58012.webp) *The preview your agent sends back. Devon Clarke is listed at 10:00 AM in the Birch Room.* The preview is drawn on your agent's computer, so changing it costs nothing. Read it the way a visitor would: can you find the next guest, does every name fit, does the note read? Ask for new words or another look until it is right. ## Say publish, and ask for proof > **You:** Publish that to the reception TV. Don't tell me it's up until you've seen it on the screen. > > **Agent:** It's live. The TV confirmed it had the board about two seconds after I sent it. Then I took a picture of the screen and checked it against the preview: same guests, same times, same note. Two checks happened here. The preview checks the design. The picture of the screen checks what the TV really shows. That is why your agent waits until it has looked at the second one before it says the board is up. You can ask for that picture any time. ## Change one thing > **You:** Devon's meeting has moved to 10:30 in the Cedar Room. Change only that, leave everything else as it is, and tell me when the screen has it. > > **Agent:** Done. Devon Clarke now shows 10:30 AM in the Cedar Room, and the screen had it two seconds after I made the change. The other guests, the heading and the sign-in note are untouched. ![The same welcome board after the change: Devon Clarke now at 10:30 AM, meeting Ravi in the Cedar Room, with the other guests, the heading and the note unchanged](https://screenrig.ai/static-resources/images/screenshots/landing/guides-control-after-change-b620bb4c.webp) *The board after the change: Devon Clarke at 10:30 AM in the Cedar Room, everything else as before.* The board was not rebuilt. The guest list is kept apart from the look, so your agent changes one line and the screen follows. A menu, a queue or a schedule works the same way. ## What your agent does on its own, and what it asks you - **It asks before it guesses.** On a first run it asks for your email and nothing else. - **It says when a change is waiting.** If your project needs someone to approve changes, your agent tells you the change is waiting and does not say it is playing. Agents never approve their own changes. - **It checks with you before touching a group.** Restarting a group of screens needs your yes. - **It tidies up.** It removes its drafts and test uploads, and tells you what it made and what it removed. **Next:** keep a board matching a spreadsheet with [Display a Google Sheet on a TV](https://screenrig.ai/guides/google-sheets-on-tv.md). ## Related - [Quickstart: Digital Signage with Your AI Agent](https://screenrig.ai/docs/start.md): screenRIG is free. Pay only if you want more. Install the official plugin with your AI agent, then pair a Player and publish your first screen. - [Display a Google Sheet on a TV](https://screenrig.ai/guides/google-sheets-on-tv.md): Ask your AI agent to put a Google Sheet on a TV and keep it current. Updates land in seconds. screenRIG is free. Pay only if you want more. - [Corporate Digital Signage and Office TV Screens](https://screenrig.ai/use-cases/corporate-offices.md): Corporate digital signage for office TV screens: live stream the all-hands to every floor, dark screens at night and one-line alerts by floor. - [200+ Digital Signage Apps for TV Screens](https://screenrig.ai/apps.md): screenRIG is free. Pay only if you want more. 200+ ready-made apps: menus, clocks, weather, queues and KPI dashboards your agent fills with live data. - [Supported Players and Setup](https://screenrig.ai/docs/players.md): Install the screenRIG Player on your screen, pair it with your agent, and compare content types, streams and device controls by platform. [Start free](https://screenrig.ai/docs/start.md). screenRIG is free. Pay only if you want more.