Manage Tilecast

Use these pages after Tilecast is running. They cover checking on screens, deciding who can sign in, changing installation settings, and protecting the server. Most settings are under Settings in Studio. Some pages need the Owner or Administrator role, and each page says so.

Fleet health and Activity

Check what your screens are doing now and what happened earlier.

• Read the Overview to see which screens need attention and what happens next.
• Read Activity reports to review Player-confirmed playback, compliance, and incidents.
• Understand a screen’s status when a display looks offline or needs attention.
• Send a Player command to request a sync, playback reload, cache clear, or restart.

If something is not working, start with Troubleshooting.

Live preview

• View a live preview or stream to check what a connected Player is showing.
• Review Snapshot history to look back at earlier screenshots from a screen.

Temporary presentations

Show something now without editing a schedule.

• Temporary presentations explains Quick Present, AirPlay, and Takeover, and what plays first when more than one is active.

Users and access

• Manage users and roles to create accounts, limit screen access, or suspend an account.
• Protect Studio accounts to enroll a second factor or require one for some or all accounts.
• My Account and preferences for each person’s language, appearance, and sign-in factors.

Organization settings

• Organization settings for your organization name and regional formatting.
• Language and regional settings to separate personal Studio language from shared signage formatting.
• Branding for the screens Tilecast itself draws on a Player.
• Locations for reusable place metadata and targeting.
• Content and playback settings for organization defaults.
• Set Player policies to set organization defaults or override them for a Display Group or screen.
• Import and export settings to move supported settings between installations without secrets.
• System settings and health to check installation status and run the maintenance actions Studio offers.
• Dependency Graph to trace where content is used before you change it.

Networking and remote access

• Networking and remote access covers server addresses, HTTPS, proxies, tunnels, mDNS, and VLAN boundaries.
• Set up a Presentation Network prepares a Linux Player for AirPlay when the sender cannot reach it over Ethernet.
• Check that Players can reach the server tests the route from a Player’s network to Tilecast Server.

Backups and server updates

• Back up and restore Tilecast to protect the database, media, and cached Player releases.
• Update Tilecast Server to update a Docker Compose installation and keep a way back.
• Update Tilecast Player to verify signed Player releases and deploy them to selected screens. This does not update the server.

Data and retention

• Data retention sets how long Tilecast keeps Activity, audit, diagnostic, and telemetry history.
• Snapshot history has its own capture interval and retention settings.