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The Screens section of your Piksel dashboard gives you a central view of every display linked to your account. From here you can check whether a screen is online, adjust how it is oriented on the wall, set its physical location, assign content to play, and remove screens you no longer use.

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Screen list and status

The screens list shows every display you have paired. Each screen card shows its name, location, currently assigned playlist, and live connection status — either Online or Offline.
Status is determined by heartbeat freshness. When a screen has not sent a heartbeat to Piksel for approximately two minutes, its status changes to Offline. As soon as the screen reconnects and sends a heartbeat, its status returns to Online automatically.

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Pairing a new screen

Before a screen appears in your list, it must be paired to your account. See Pairing screens for the full step-by-step walkthrough using the 6-digit code shown on your Apple TV.

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Configuring screen settings

Select any screen from the list to open its detail view. From there you can update the following settings.
Give the screen a descriptive name so you can identify it in the dashboard, schedules, and smart rules — for example, Lobby Display or Menu Board — Counter 2.
Set the physical orientation of the display. Choose the option that matches how the screen is mounted.
Enter a human-readable label for where the screen is located, such as Main Entrance or Drive-Through. This label appears in the dashboard and in email notifications.
Provide the latitude and longitude for the screen’s physical location. Piksel uses these coordinates to fetch live weather data when evaluating smart rules.
Smart rules that use weather or temperature conditions will not trigger if no location coordinates are set on the screen.

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Assigning a playlist to a screen

You can assign a default playlist directly to a screen. This is the content that plays when no schedule or smart rule is overriding it.
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Open the screen detail

From the screens list, select the screen you want to configure.
2

Select a playlist

In the Playlist section of the screen detail, choose a playlist from the dropdown. The list shows all playlists in your account.
3

Save your changes

Click Save. The screen receives the updated playlist in real time.
To play different content at different times of day, use schedules rather than reassigning the playlist manually.

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Deleting a screen

Deleting a screen removes it from your account and deletes all schedules associated with it. The playlists and media assigned to the screen are not affected.
1

Open the screen detail

Select the screen from the screens list.
2

Delete the screen

Click Delete screen and confirm the action when prompted.
Deleting a screen also deletes all schedules configured for that screen. This action cannot be undone.