Features
In more detail than the front page gives it. Every screen here is a real capture from the Apple TV app, and each feature appears once.
Fullscreen, crossfaded, and mixed freely in the same gallery. Video plays through in full or gets cut to a length you set, with or without sound, and anything arriving below Full HD is flagged on the way in rather than discovered on the wall.
Turn the screen and the whole layout follows, type included. Half the screens in a foyer are mounted on their side, and this is not a second gallery or a cropped copy of the first one. The same content, laid out for the shape it is on.
The panel names the network to join and this Apple TV, so anyone casts in one tap without asking anyone. It drifts between corners on its own so nothing burns in, and it can hide itself on video or while a board is up. Set per gallery, not once for everything.
Local conditions from Apple Weather, on a background the app draws from the conditions themselves. Blue sky when it is clear, grey when it is not, blue into purple after dark. It can ride in the top bar as a chip, take a turn of its own, or both.
Per item rather than per gallery. Name the team, the trip or the year group and it appears as that photo comes up, then fades, so the picture gets the rest of its turn to itself.
Switch off the notice, the clock, the weather chip, or all of it, and the photograph gets the whole screen. Useful in a gallery, a reception, or anywhere the furniture would be the only thing dating the picture.
An alert does not sit in a corner of the slideshow, it replaces it. Send one from the dashboard and every screen in the building is carrying it within a minute, at a size you can read from the far end of a corridor. There is no dismiss button on purpose, because nobody is standing at a foyer screen. It clears from the dashboard or lapses at the expiry you set.
On the wall
Type the content and it lands on the screen laid out properly, at the right size, with the text picking whichever ink reads best against the background you chose.
The canteen, the carnival, and the notices that never make it home in a bag.
Canteen menu
Every frame here is a capture from the Apple TV app itself, so what you set is what goes on the wall.
Panel opacity
Frosted reads from the back of a hall. Glass gets out of the way of the photograph. Medium sits between the two.
Brand tint
Any hex you like, applied to the glass rather than painted behind it, so the photograph still comes through.
Weather
Clear, overcast, storming, after dark. The forecast comes from Apple Weather and the screen colours itself to match. Nothing to choose.
Portrait
Mount it upright and everything reflows to match, type included. No second gallery, no cropped photos.
Everything beyond the photos is an app rather than a checkbox buried in settings. An administrator turns one off and it leaves the screen and everyone's editor at the same time, so a feature you have decided against stops being a thing anyone has to be told not to use.
Media
Photos and video, crossfaded
Boards
Menus, timetables, notices
Weather
Local conditions, live
Clock
The corner time
Notice
One line across the top
Alerts
Full-screen takeover
Unsplash
Free stock photography
Calendar
Coming soonWhat is on, from your calendar
Google Drive
Coming soonImport from Drive
OneDrive
Coming soonImport from OneDrive
Canva
Coming soonBring in a design
Behind it
A gallery per space, each with its own code. Drop in images and video and they are resized and compressed on the way in. Change something here and the screens catch up on their own.
Take the dashboard tour
In the browser
At 2am on a Sunday
Deployment
Billboard is an ordinary tvOS app with managed app configuration, so your MDM installs it and tells each screen which gallery to play, what to call itself and which network to name. Unbox, enrol, done. Nobody walks a remote around the building.
Most MDMs substitute per-device variables, so a single configuration gives every Apple TV its own name while sharing everything else. Point a whole site at one gallery, or a different gallery per building.
<dict>
<key>dataURL</key>
<string>https://getbillboard.app/m/XHA8TKJH</string>
<key>deviceName</key>
<string>$DEVICENAME</string>
<key>airplayWifiNetwork</key>
<string>Riverside-Guest</string>
<key>airplayTint</key>
<string>#1E3A8A</string>
<key>screenRotation</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>showClock</key>
<true/>
</dict>Managed config outranks whatever is set on the device, so a screen that someone has fiddled with comes back into line on its next check-in.
Buying through Apple Business or School Manager works the same way. Add Billboard to Volume Purchasing and your MDM installs it like anything else.
No new hardware
Any Apple TV you already own. Nothing to buy, nothing to wire in, no media player under the desk.
AirPlay preserved
AirPlay still works exactly like Conference Mode. Everyone keeps casting in one tap.
Your own content
Your photography, your colours, your wording. Nothing of ours on the screen unless you put it there.
Flat pricing
Free on two screens forever, then one price by screen count rather than a fee per screen.
Free on two Apple TVs, forever. The app is free on the App Store.