Digital signage
that works offline
The player downloads content and keeps showing it even when WiFi drops. When connection returns, it syncs automatically. No black screens.
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Digital Signage
What you can do from day one
All your business needs on screen, ready to use.
Robust offline cache
Service Worker downloads images, videos and config. If internet drops, the screen keeps running.
Automatic sync on return
When WiFi returns, the player syncs itself. You don't have to do anything.
No black screens
The fear of customers seeing a dead TV ends. Even during outages, your signage keeps selling.
Ideal for poor-signal zones
Rural cafes, food trucks, fairs, events. Works where WiFi doesn't reliably reach.
Start with
the Starter plan
Starter plan (€9/month): 1 screen with offline cache included. No extra charge for offline robustness. 14 days free.
What "offline" means here
and what it does not
Every vendor in this category says offline. The word covers three very different situations, and it is worth knowing which one you are buying before the screen is on the wall.
Playing offline: yes, and it is the normal case
The player holds the content on the device and keeps the playlist running whether or not the connection is up. A dropped router at lunchtime is invisible to the room. When the network returns, it syncs by itself and picks up anything you changed while it was out.
Updating offline: no, and nobody can
If you need to change a price and there is no connection of any kind — no Wi-Fi and no mobile data on your phone — the change has to wait. That is not a limitation of one product, it is what the word means. The practical answer is that you only need signal for the few seconds it takes to save.
Never connecting at all: possible, but say so first
The device caches up to 48 hours of content. A screen that reaches the internet once a week is fine; a screen that will never see a network is a different proposition, because the first pairing needs a connection and so does every later change. If that is your case, tell us before you buy the stick.
In a shopping centre or a market hall
the network is not yours, and that breaks in ways your own wifi never does
Most advice about offline signage assumes a weak connection. A shared network is a different situation: the signal is excellent and the connection still fails, because somebody else's rules sit between the screen and the internet.
Three things behave differently on a network you do not own:
- The captive portal. A page you have to accept, often daily. A screen cannot press the button, so the connection looks alive and passes no traffic. This is the single most common cause on shared networks.
- The nightly reset. Many managed networks drop every device at a fixed hour. Anything that reconnects automatically is fine; anything that needed a human is not.
- Blocked ports and content filters. Rare, but when it happens the symptom is a screen that updates for a week and then stops with no visible cause.
The practical consequence is that in these locations offline capability is not a fallback, it is the normal operating mode. The screen should be built to run for days on what it has, and treat any connection it gets as a bonus rather than a requirement.
There is one question worth asking the centre's management before anything is installed, and it saves the most time: can they give you a wired point, or a device exemption on the wifi. Both usually exist, both are usually free, and neither is offered unless asked — because the network was designed for visitors' phones, not for a device that has to stay connected for a year.
Before signing anything, ask whether the shared network has a daily login page. If it does, plan for offline from day one rather than discovering it in week three.
The time does not come from the mains
it comes from the internet
It is the quietest of all the faults that come with working offline, and the only one that does not look like a fault at all.
After a power cut, many cheap players start up on their factory date. They have no battery for the clock: when they come back they ask the internet what time it is, and with no internet they keep whatever they shipped with. From that moment every scheduled item slips at once — the breakfast menu at eight in the evening, Sunday's board on a Tuesday, a promotion that ended a month ago back on screen.
And it fails the opposite way round from what you would expect, which is what makes it last. The screen is on, the picture is perfect and there is no error message anywhere. The content is correct: it is simply from another moment. Nobody rings to report that, because from outside nothing looks broken — it looks like you put it there on purpose, and that is exactly the conclusion the customer draws.
The check that catches it takes a minute and happens before anything is installed. Unplug the device, plug it back in with no network, and look at what time it thinks it is. If it starts in 1970 or on a factory date, you already know every power cut will scramble a whole day. Knowing that, you choose differently: a player with a battery-backed clock costs a few euros more, and it is the difference between an offline site that works and one somebody has to go and look at.
Straight with you: no software fixes this, ours included. It is a part inside the device, which is why it is worth testing with the player in your hand before installing fifteen of them in places that are a nuisance to get back to.
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