Compare our plans and get a detailed breakdown of our features list. FuneralScreen is one of the most feature-rich digital signage solutions designed for the funeral industry. It consistently delivers professional results. We aim to provide features that are extremely easy to use while maintaining affordability.
Frequently Asked Questions...
FuneralScreen can display videos, images, documents, online web pages and apps. Or you can combine these media files to create Playlists or Screen Layouts.
You can upload whatever media files you want to FuneralScreen, and use them. We also support YouTube videos, Live Streaming Videos (YouTube, Ustream, and custom streams) and PowerPoint files (converted to videos, while keeping all animations). All Document types are supported and shown as slides, including PDF, PowerPoint, Word and Excel files. Our App collection, including Scrolling Text (ticker), Rich Text and RSS Feed, is now available to use and we are working on adding more.
Because it will let you down and make your job so much harder. Really.
Most TVs with a USB port allow you to load some media files on a USB drive and then you select to play them back sequentially. That’s it.
If the TV turns off, you will have to restart the playback. Some TVs show annoying progress indicators on screen. Others, stop when the full list of media is completed. Generally, it is a nice free way to do stuff, but it isn’t suitable for businesses and organizations.
FuneralScreen automates the process of playback. It can turn the TV on and off, change the channel to the proper HDMI input and make sure everything goes smoothly without glitches even after a power failure. And, of course, you can continuously update the content over the Internet without using USB sticks or DVD discs, and do so to 1 or 10,000 screens. Also, FuneralScreen provides a scheduling feature. You can setup your monitors to show different things at different hours of the day, or even power off your monitor to save electricity.
And all of that without even touching upon how FuneralScreen can composite screens with multiple content, using YouTube videos, PPTs, live streaming videos, etc.
You need Internet access and a FuneralScreen-supported playback device.
FuneralScreen is an online service, so you need an Internet connection for signing in and managing your monitors and content. A FuneralScreen-supported playback device is required for each monitor. Internet connectivity is also required for installed FuneralScreen Players, either wireless (WiFi), wired (LAN) or mobile (using a 3G/4G/LTE USB dongle).
Absolutely not! FuneralScreen was designed from scratch so that anyone can use it.
Forget about mumbo-jumbo tech-stuff. The service is really easy to use and our FuneralScreen Players are really plug-and-play. Really.
You can have however many monitors you need.
FuneralScreen uses scalable technologies that can support tens of thousands of monitors under a single FuneralScreen account. We provide mass management of multiple monitors, along with tag-based searches, thus making FuneralScreen an easy solution for handling thousands of units.
FuneralScreen software supports any type of monitor or TV, of any resolution.
The service was designed based on the primary resolution of 1920×1080 (dubbed “Full HD” or “1080p” in the TV industry). With the Raspberry Pi 4, FuneralScreen also supports 4K resolution. The content is automatically adapted for any resolution and any monitor or TV, even non-widescreen monitors.
FuneralScreen supports multiple ratios and orientations, making it possible to customize and optimize your content by ratio and orientation (portrait or landscape).
The FuneralScreen Player is our own plug-and-play Player, based on the popular Raspberry Pi 4 B computer.
FuneralScreen needs a device that will handle playback of your media on your monitor or TV. To make things easier for you, we created our own commercial device.
With the FuneralScreen Player you get:
A Raspberry Pi 4 (Model B) mini computer, including a metallic case that works as a heatsink to keep your Raspberry Pi 4 cool, and a power supply.
A 3ft-long (1m) Micro HDMI to Standard HDMI cable, for connecting the FuneralScreen Player to your TV/monitor.
A 32GB SD-card, preloaded with FuneralScreen software and preconfigured to be plug-and-play.
Sounds complicated? It is not. As soon as you plug your Player into your monitor or TV and then connect it to your broadband router, it will start playback from your account. Immediately.
In the event of an Internet outage, FuneralScreen-enabled screens will continue to work fine, for up to a full month.
Content displayed on your monitors is downloaded and played locally. But you won’t be able to change what gets displayed until Internet access is back. Of course, content that loads from the Internet, like Web Pages and Live Streaming Videos (except simple YouTube videos, which are downloaded locally), is not available when your devices go offline.
Yes.
You can set the WiFi network name and key through the configuration file and FuneralScreen will try to connect. All of the settings are configurable through the online FuneralScreen Portal. You also can edit this configuration file through your PC and an SD card reader.
For our FuneralScreen Players, all settings can be configured during ordering, so it works great as soon as you plug it in!
Yes, by using a USB dongle.
You just need to connect a 3G/4G/LTE USB dongle to the Player. All settings, like APN, Username, Password, PIN, etc, are configurable through the online FuneralScreen Portal. You also can edit this configuration through your PC and an SD card reader directly on the SD card.
For our FuneralScreen Players, all settings can be configured during ordering, so it works great as soon as you plug it in!
