The screen console
Open a screen and you get its own console: a live view of what the display is showing, why that content is playing, what it has played, and every setting that belongs to this one screen.
Screens live under Displays in the sidebar. Search it, or open Filters to narrow by Status and Tags; select several and the bar offers Assign and Tags. Open a screen and its console has four tabs — Overview, Schedule, Activity and Settings — plus a More menu that works from any of them.
Overview: what's on, and why
The live view shows the slide the device reports it is showing, with a Live badge and “Slide 3 of 8”. Now playing names the sequence; Playing because gives the reason — a scheduled slot, or “Default content — no slot scheduled now”. Up next says what follows, and when.
- Play, Pause and Stop drive the display. A stopped one shows “Playback stopped from Pico Cloud”.
- Identify flashes the screen's name on the display, so you can tell which TV is which.
- Request screenshot has the device upload a photo of what it is really showing.
Screenshots need the desktop player
Only the native desktop player can capture its own screen — the web player has no way to take one. On macOS the first request triggers the system Screen Recording prompt and returns nothing until you grant it.
Schedule and Activity
Schedule is this screen's week calendar — drag to add slots, and save one to reuse elsewhere. See Schedules & playlists.
Activity has two views. Proof of play reports Sequence, Plays, Total time and Last played, with Export CSV; click a row to filter the Playback log beneath it. Events is the plain-English history — paired, assigned, schedule updated, display power switched, player restart requested.
What the numbers cover
Proof of play is counted per sequence, not per slide. The page shows roughly the last 48 hours; Export CSV is the full retained history.
Settings
- Playback & display: Scaling (Actual size (100%), Fit to screen, Fill screen), Audio, Finish slide before switching, Display power (CEC) and Power schedule.
- Vitals: player version, device, resolution, content sync and Last heartbeat.
- Pairing: Sync now, Restart player, Unpair device — and Open web player for a browser-paired screen.
- Danger zone: Rename and Delete screen.
Display power (CEC) only switches a panel off on Linux and Raspberry Pi devices. On macOS, Windows and the web player the display goes black but stays powered on.