The TV you already have, a £30 stick behind it, and a menu you change from your phone. Here's the whole setup, start to finish, the way we did it in our own shops.
Plug the stick into the TV's HDMI port, switch the TV to that input, and follow Amazon's setup on screen. It asks for your Wi-Fi and an Amazon account, the same as it would at home.
On the Fire TV home screen, search for FireSign in the Amazon Appstore and install it. It needs Fire OS 5 or newer, which every supported stick has.
Open FireSign and the screen shows a short code. Sign in to the Fire Suite dashboard on your phone or laptop, type the code in, and give the screen a name: "Menu Board", "Window", "Counter 2". That's the pairing done, for good. You won't need the TV remote again.
Design a menu slide in the browser, or upload photos and videos you already have. Then put slides into a running order and set how long each one holds. It's on the wall within seconds.
Each screen gets its own running order, so the board above the counter, the drinks by the fridge and an offer in the window can all show different things.
Set the lunch menu to start at eleven and the evening menu at five, and the screens switch on their own every day. You set it once.
A takeover puts something full-screen across every screen right now, such as "Card machine down, cash only" or tonight's offer, and clears just as fast. If you run more than one shop, you can push the same offer to every screen in every shop in one go.
One thing to check on the TV itself. Some TVs switch themselves off after a few hours without anyone touching the remote, to save power. Look in the TV's own settings for an auto-off, sleep or eco timer and turn it off, or the screen can go black mid-afternoon even though the stick is fine.
The full list is on the supported devices page.
At £3 a week for four screens, FireSign is about half the price per screen of the cheapest paid menu board software we found. See pricing.
Yes, if it has a spare HDMI port. The Fire TV Stick plugs into that, and the TV just shows what the stick sends it.
The FireSign app keeps the pictures and videos on the stick itself, so a short drop doesn't blank the menu. Changes you make reach the screen once it's back online.
Yes. Portrait or landscape is set per screen, so a tall board by the till and a wide one above the counter can sit side by side.
Yes. Each screen has its own running order, so the counter, the drinks fridge and the window can all show something different. You can also push one offer to every screen in every shop at once.
No. You can design a menu slide in the browser, or upload photos and videos you already have.
About £30 once for each Fire TV Stick, and FireSign at £3 a week per shop with four screens included. Extra screens are £1 a week each. There's a 14-day free trial with no card.
Fourteen days, no card. If the board above your counter is still right by the end of it, you'll know.
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