Set up a TV for your menu
ProWhat you need to show your menu on a TV: the TV, a device with a web browser, Wi-Fi and one link. No player box, no USB stick to update.
You need three things: a TV, something on it that can open a web page, and Wi-Fi. If your TV is a smart TV, you may already have all three.
Set up the TV
- Hang the TV where guests look while they wait: above the counter, by the door or next to the queue.
- Connect the TV, or the stick or laptop plugged into it, to your Wi-Fi.
- In the Dashboard, add a screen with the same orientation as the TV.
- Open the screen's link in the TV's browser and choose Full screen.
- In the TV's own settings, turn off auto power off, sleep timers and the screensaver. They are usually under Power or Eco.
- Leave the TV on. Switch it off at closing like any other light.
Screenshot
A TV above a cafe counter showing the menu board design
What can open the link
- A smart TV with a browser. Most Samsung and LG smart TVs have one built in.
- An Amazon Fire TV stick. Use the Silk browser from the Amazon Appstore.
- A laptop or mini PC on HDMI. Any browser works. The most reliable choice.
- Not: Roku and Apple TV have no web browser. Chromecast and Google TV have none built in.
Good to know
- Vertical TV? It needs a device that can turn its picture, like a laptop or mini PC set to portrait in its display settings. A Fire TV stick and most TV browsers only show horizontal.
- Why not a photo on a USB stick? It shows the menu as it was the day you made it. A link shows your menu as it is in the Dashboard.
- The menu page asks the TV to stay awake and moves a few pixels now and then, so nothing burns into the screen.
- Menu edges cut off? Turn on Edge margin in the screen settings.
Related
- Open your menu on a TVOpen the screen's link in the TV's browser and go full screen. After that, the TV keeps itself up to date.
- Add a TV screenAdd a screen for each TV: pick horizontal or vertical, pick a design, give it a name. You can change all of it later.
- Your menu on a TVShow the same menu on the TV in your shop. Pick a design, open one link in the TV's browser. No box, no app. Part of Pro.