Digital signage
with your Chromecast
You have a Chromecast and a TV. With Digisini you have a professional digital signage screen in 5 minutes. No extra hardware, no installer.
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Set up your screen
in 5 minutes
Connect Chromecast to your TV
Plug the Chromecast into any TV HDMI port. No Smart TV needed.
Open Chrome browser
On Chromecast with Google TV open Chrome and go to player.digisini.com. Enter the 6-digit PIN.
Manage from your phone
From your phone or PC upload images, videos and schedule content. Screen updates instantly.
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Which Chromecast
actually works
Not all of them do, and the cheap old ones are the ones that don't.
You need Chromecast with Google TV
Digisini runs a small web app on the device itself: you open a browser on the TV and enter a PIN. That means the device has to have a browser. Chromecast with Google TV (the 2020 model onward, HD or 4K) runs Android TV, so it has Chrome and the Play Store — it works.
The old casting Chromecasts do not
The 2nd gen, 3rd gen and Ultra are casting-only. They have no browser, no apps and no home screen — they just receive a stream from your phone. There is nothing on them to open a browser in, so they cannot run the player. If you have one of these, you cannot use it for signage on its own.
"Can't I just cast from my phone?"
Technically yes, practically no. Casting a Chrome tab means your phone streams its screen to the TV and has to stay on, awake and casting, forever. That is not signage — it is a phone you can never use again. For a screen that runs by itself, you need a device with its own browser.
Got an old Chromecast? Don't buy a new one just for this. An Amazon Fire Stick (~€35) or a cheap Android TV box is the proper path and often costs less than Chromecast with Google TV.
Your content disappears and a mountain appears
and nothing is broken
This is the single most reported problem with these devices in a commercial setting, and it is not a fault at all. Knowing that in advance turns a support call into a thirty-second fix, which is most of what this page is for.
Ambient mode is a living-room feature in the wrong room
After a few minutes without input the device shows its screensaver: full-screen landscape photography, curated and rather nice. In a lounge that is the point of the product. In a shop window it is your menu replaced by a lake. Nobody reads that as a setting — they read it as a failure, take a photograph of it and ask what went wrong. It lives in the display options, it is switched off once, and it should be the first thing anybody touches on installation day.
Casting is not the same as running
Most people know this device through the gesture of casting a video from a phone. For a business screen that gesture is precisely the wrong model: the phone is in charge, so if it leaves the building, runs flat or changes network, the screen goes blank. Models that run Google TV execute an app on their own, with no phone present, and after that the phone is only used to change content rather than to hold it up. That distinction decides whether the installation survives its first fortnight.
Set it up on a business account, not a personal one
The device needs an account to complete setup, and whoever's account is used ends up attached to that screen. If it is the personal login of the member of staff who installed it, their departure takes the access with them and the device has to be reset. Five minutes creating an account the business controls, with a password stored where the others are, removes the most annoying scenario this class of hardware produces — and it is far easier to do before the box is opened than a year later.
Storage is the ceiling you hit first
Eight gigabytes sounds ample and is not, once a couple of applications and their caches are in place. The limit does not announce itself with a warning: it shows up as an app that suddenly stops opening, or an update that fails halfway. Keeping the device to one job — the player and nothing else — avoids it almost entirely, which is another argument for not treating a signage player as a general-purpose media box.
Casting is open by design
and your guest wifi is the same network
What makes the device delightful in a living room is, in a place open to the public, a door nobody closed.
Casting is designed to be easy, and it is easy for everybody. Any phone on the same network sees your screen in its list of targets and can send something to it without asking anyone's permission. At home that is precisely what you want. In a bar with wifi for customers it means your shop window appears on the phone of every person who walks in, right next to their speaker and their television.
And it does not take bad intentions. It only takes somebody wanting to show a friend a video and tapping the name in the list that looks familiar. While it lasts, your content is not there — and whoever walks past in that minute has no way of knowing you did not put it there. What they take away is what they saw, and they attribute it to the whole place.
The answer is not watching the screen: it is keeping it off the customers' network. A separate network for the devices — guest wifi in reverse, customers on one, screens on another — closes the door completely. And if you already have the application installed on the player, you do not need casting at all and it can simply be turned off. It is an afternoon of setup, done once in the life of the device.
Straight with you: this is not a Chromecast fault, it is what it was designed for. It is just worth knowing that in a public place that feature stops being a convenience and becomes something you decide, rather than the network deciding for you.
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