AirPlay and Conference Room Display with Billboard

People lock an Apple TV into Apple's Conference Room Display mostly so anyone can AirPlay to it. The downside is a blank, generic screen the rest of the day. Billboard gives you both. Your own content and one-tap AirPlay.

Does AirPlay still work with Billboard?

Yes. Billboard shows a drifting AirPlay panel over your content, with the same "connect using AirPlay" instructions Apple's screen gives. Anyone on the network can cast to the display in one tap, for a lesson, a meeting, a presentation, exactly like Conference Mode. When they're done, the screen goes back to your signage.

AirPlay runs over your local network, so it keeps working even if the internet drops. See Staying live when the internet drops.

Billboard instead of Apple's Conference Room Display

You don't run both at once. Apple's Conference Room Display takes over the whole screen with a fixed layout you can't touch. Billboard is just a normal app: it plays your images and video and adds its own AirPlay panel. Same AirPlay convenience, no blank screen.

So when you set a screen up for signage, turn Apple's Conference Room Display off and let Billboard run instead. See Keep an Apple TV running as a display.

Make the panel yours

You can customise the AirPlay panel per gallery: its wording, the Wi-Fi network to join, its colour and how see-through it is, and how it drifts to dodge burn-in. You can even hide it while a video plays, or hide it altogether. See Customise the display.

Questions about presenting or AirPlay? Email support@getbillboard.app.