Digital Signage
Turn any browser-capable screen into a workplace digital signage display — alerts, news posts, recognitions, and events on a token-authenticated portal feed. No partner hardware required.
MangoApps
Overview
Digital Signage turns any browser-capable screen — Chromium on a Raspberry Pi, Fire TV, smart-TV browser, or repurposed tablet — into a workplace information display, with no partner SDK, no signage server, and no per-screen license fees beyond the platform. Each screen registers in admin once and gets a unique URL-safe token. Two ways to use the URL: point a fullscreen browser at it directly (the portal-feed default — works on any device with Chromium), or paste it into your existing signage platform's "web URL" content source as one zone among many. Every signage platform on the market — BrightSign, Scala, Signagelive, Rise Vision, OptiSigns, Yodeck, even consumer Chromecast — supports web URLs as a native content type, so MangoApps delivers content into systems your team already runs without an integration project. The kiosk page is fullscreen, no-auth, and aggregates four content streams from the rest of the platform: critical alerts (pinned in real time via ActionCable push), recent News Feed posts, employee recognitions, and upcoming calendar events. Per-screen content rules let admins mix the rotation differently for the lobby, the break room, and the manufacturing floor — light theme here, dark theme there, alerts pinned but no recognitions in public-facing zones. Heartbeats land every minute so the dashboard shows online/offline status per screen, and tokens rotate on demand if a screen is replaced or compromised. Built on the same multi-tenant security model as the rest of the platform; every screen is hard-scoped to its business.
Highlights
Capabilities
Screen Management
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Token-authenticated portal feed (no SDK / partner hardware)
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Per-screen content rules (alerts / posts / recognitions / events)
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Per-screen theme + refresh interval + rotation interval
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Heartbeat + online/offline status per device
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Token rotation on demand (e.g. screen replaced or compromised)
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Daily offline alert mailer to admins
Content Sources
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Critical alerts (real-time push via ActionCable; pinned at top)
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News Feed posts (rotation, must-read pinned, 14-day window)
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Employee recognitions (opt-in per tenant)
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Calendar events (next 7 days)
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Branded header image + footer text per screen
Embed Anywhere
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Embeds in any signage platform with a "web URL" content type BrightSign, Scala, Signagelive, Rise Vision, OptiSigns, Yodeck, Chromecast, smart TVs
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`Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors *` set on the public route
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No partner SDK / no API credentials / no IT integration project
Limits & Specs
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Pricing model: Per-employee, no per-screen license fee
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Tier: Standard (Comms platform tier)
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Token format: 32-char URL-safe base64, globally unique
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Refresh range: 30 – 300 seconds (admin-configurable)
Use cases
FAQ
No. Any device with a modern browser works — Chromium on a Raspberry Pi, Fire TV, smart TV, repurposed tablet, or Chromecast. No partner SDK, no per-screen license, no IT integration project.
Every signage platform on the market supports a "web URL" content source. Register a screen in MangoApps, copy the token URL, and paste it into your signage platform's admin tool as one content slot. Your platform handles the scheduling, multi-zone layout, and branded chrome; MangoApps delivers fresh content into the URL slot.
Critical alerts use ActionCable real-time push and reach every active screen within ~1 second of being dispatched. The screens also poll the feed every 60 seconds (configurable per screen) as a fallback when the WebSocket is unavailable.
Yes. Each screen has its own content_rules — pick which content types to show (alerts, news posts, recognitions, events), per-screen theme (light/dark), refresh interval, rotation speed, and branded header/footer. The dashboard shows the per-screen overrides at a glance.
The dashboard shows online/offline status per screen based on the last heartbeat. A daily sweep job emails admins when any screen has been offline for more than 24 hours — so a kiosk that lost power overnight doesn't silently stay dark for days.
Each screen has its own 32-character URL-safe token. The token is the auth boundary — no user session is required, but the token cannot be guessed and is rotatable on demand from the admin (e.g. if a screen is replaced or compromised). Tokens are globally unique, hard-scoped to a single business; there is no cross-tenant content leak risk.
