Free digital signage for small business: tell your agent what the TV shows

The same TV does a different job for each business, and each job is a ready-made app your agent fills in. You never open an editor. You say what changed.

The apps behind those rows are Opening hours, Offer, Daily specials, Happy hour, Who's on and Announcement. The live previews at the top of this page show some of them, and Apps lists all of them.

Linden Corner Market is a made-up shop, so its hours are demo content. The session is real: it ran on 27 October 2026 on a test screen, from a machine with no screenRIG account.

When something sells out or a price changes, you tell your agent in a sentence and the TV follows within seconds. Nobody walks to the TV, and nothing is republished.

1. You

   We're out of the salmon rice bowl.

2. Agent

   Done. The salmon rice bowl is struck through and marked sold out on the lunch menu, and the board re-flowed into one column. The TV updated a few seconds after I changed it. I did not republish anything.

Harbor Cafe is a made-up café, so its menu is demo content. The recording is real: 26 October 2026, on screenRIG's test environment, with the pictures drawn by the Player, the screenRIG app on the screen, in a browser window standing in for the TV. The menu board guide shows dayparts, happy hour and the menu from a photo or a PDF.

You do not need a person to keep a screen current. Your agent put who is on shift on a staff-room TV for a made-up gym, Harbor Gym, from five shifts it was given once. The app works out who is on now, the time left in each shift and who starts next from the screen's own clock, so nobody touches it during the day.

The staff and shifts are demo content. The run is real, from 26 October 2026 on screenRIG's test environment.

1. Install once. Your agent installs the official plugin from github.com/screenrig/plugin. Start has the sentence to paste for each agent.
2. Pair the TV. Put the Player, the free screenRIG app, on the TV. It shows a code. You read the code to your agent.
3. Ask. Tell your agent what the TV should show. It builds it, puts it on the TV and checks the screen before it says it is done.

Almost any screen works: a TV or stick with Google TV or Android TV built in, an Amazon Signage Stick or a Fire TV Stick, a Raspberry Pi, a Mac, a Windows PC, or any screen with a browser. Each Player keeps playing from its own storage when the internet drops. Android TV and Players have the details.

screenRIG is free. Pay only if you want more: more than 50 screens, people to talk to, contract terms, custom work or a lot of storage. Your screens show only your content: no screenRIG watermark or logo. See pricing.

Do I need to know anything about signage?

No. There is no editor and no template to pick. You say what you want in your own words, and your agent makes the screen, puts it up and looks at it.

Which agents work with it?

Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex, Meta Muse, Gemini Spark, Grok Bot, ChatGPT dots, Hermes and Grok Build. Start has the first step for each.

Can I run more than one TV?

Yes. Give each TV its own screen, or tag several and change them together with one message. Each screen follows its own clock, so a shop and a café a time zone apart each change at their own local time.

Can a spreadsheet drive it?

Your agent reads the sheet with the access you approve and puts the rows on the TV. The Google Sheets guide shows the pattern.

Start free, read the pairing code from your TV to your agent, then paste the hours request at the top of this page with your own hours.