Digital signage
A thousand screens, a hundred venues, zero inbound ports.
Signage players hang in ceilings, cabinets, and lobbies, at sites with a different network every time. Front Desk lets your team see the screen and fix the player without exposing anything or negotiating a VPN per venue.
The signage problem
The screen is black and the player is a ladder away.
Your CMS says content was delivered. The venue says the screen is wrong. Between those two statements is a player nobody can reach: mounted out of arm's length, on a guest of a guest network, with no keyboard and no inbound path.
See what the sign shows
A browser GUI session shows the player's actual output, not what the CMS believes, so support can tell a content problem from a player problem in seconds.
Fix without a ladder
Restart services, inspect the player, collect logs, or open its local admin page through the same outbound-only path.
Know what's reachable
The portal shows every player's last contact and current status, so a dead screen is diagnosed from the desk, not discovered on site.
Fits your stack
Your CMS does content. Front Desk does the player.
Content platforms push playlists; they cannot see a hung media process or a misconfigured display. Front Desk is the support and operations path for the device itself, and it works alongside whatever signage platform you already run, on Windows or Linux players, full PCs or small ARM boards.
- Browser GUI session
- Service restarts
- Local admin pages
- Log collection
- Windows & Linux players
- Works with your CMS
Signage questions
Asked by signage operators.
How do I remotely access a signage player behind a venue firewall?
The player runs a small agent that makes outbound contact to Front Desk. Support then connects through a controlled web portal (a browser GUI session, terminal access, or the player's local admin page) with no inbound ports at the venue.
Every venue has a different network. Does that matter?
That is the scenario Front Desk is built for. Outbound-only access repeats cleanly across malls, lobbies, campuses, and stores without per-site VPN projects or address planning.
Our players are mounted in ceilings and cabinets. Does that work?
Yes. Nobody is at the keyboard, and there usually is no keyboard. Support sees the screen, restarts services, or inspects the player remotely, and the portal shows last contact when a player drops off.
Does Front Desk replace our signage CMS?
No. Your content platform keeps doing content. Front Desk is the support and operations path for the player itself: the screen, the services, the logs, and the local admin page your CMS cannot reach.