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title: "AnySign docs"
description: "What AnySign is, how a screen gets its content, and where to find everything else."
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> Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://anysign.tv/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# AnySign docs

AnySign turns the TVs you already own into managed signage. A small dongle
sits in each TV's HDMI port; the console in your browser decides what every
screen shows. These pages explain how to run it day to day.

## Start here

- [Getting started](/docs/getting-started/) — plug in a dongle, claim it with
  the code on the TV, and put your first content on the wall.
- [Media and playlists](/docs/content/) — upload images and video, arrange
  them into playlists, and assign them to screens.
- [Screens and health](/docs/screens/) — what the fleet page tells you, how
  screenshots verify the wall, and the commands you can send a screen.
- [Your team](/docs/team/) — invite colleagues, roles, and API tokens.
- [The public API](/docs/api/) — put content on screens from your own
  software, without the console.

## How a screen gets its content

Nothing is ever pushed at a screen. The console publishes what each screen
*should* be showing — a playlist, its files — and every screen checks in on
its own schedule (about every 20 seconds), downloads whatever it is missing,
verifies every byte, and only then swaps what is on the wall.

That one idea is where the reliability comes from:

- A screen that was offline — a power cut, a dead router, a week of building
  work — catches up in a single check-in. There is no queue of missed
  messages.
- A screen never shows half an update. It downloads and verifies everything
  first, then switches over at once; slow venue wifi makes a playlist *late*,
  never black.
- The console tells the truth. A screen reports "up to date" only when it is
  actually displaying that content — not when the server sent it. And you can
  ask any screen for a screenshot of what is really on the panel.

## If something looks wrong

The [screens page](/docs/screens/) shows when each screen last checked in and
what it reports showing. A screen that misses check-ins long enough is marked
offline — that is your cue to check the TV's power and network before
anything else. When in doubt, request a screenshot: it settles what the wall
is actually doing.

Source: https://anysign.tv/docs/index.mdx