SWITCH FROM SCREENCLOUD
ScreenCloud to Calisto Display
Put a kitchen display, a menu board, a guest TV or a designed screen on each TV, schedule what plays, and see what played, from the records that already run the business.
Feature by feature
Calisto Display beside ScreenCloud
- 20 In both
| 20 features | Calisto Display | ScreenCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Screens and Content | ||
| Channels and PlaylistsCalisto: a playlist times itself from each item's seconds and plays in a signage screen's main zone, or full screen on a TV with no screen of its own.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Zone LayoutsCalisto: a digital signage screen runs its zones and playlists, and a schedule can fill its main zone with a playlist.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Background Audio ZoneCalisto: an audio zone plays the business’s own tracks or its music service’s stream under whatever a set of TVs shows, every TV at the same moment, stepping back for a chime.Checked 30. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Live BroadcastCalisto: a broadcast or webinar in Calisto Live plays on the TVs while it is live, with the room’s emoji reactions floating over it and a code to join and react (with Live).Checked 30. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Scheduling | ||
| Scheduling by Day and TimeCalisto: schedules target TVs and TV groups and can name a screen, such as a lunch menu board from 11:00, or play a playlist.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Priority ContentCalisto: the most specific schedule wins first (a TV, then its group, then the whole account), then priority, then the latest start.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Design | ||
| Canvas Design EditorCalisto: designed screens are made at TV size in the one design editor Studio opens, with Themes, and published to the TVs as a picture with a live layer.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Screen-Ready TemplatesCalisto: Designed Screens start blank or from 81 landscape and 79 portrait layouts, each tagged with the industries it is for, the business's own industry first, dressed in its brand.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Lockable Template AreasCalisto: a design copied to each location keeps the parts its original locks for copies; the business chooses who may lock them (with Studio).Checked 30. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts | ||
| Emergency AlertsCalisto: put an alert over whatever the chosen TVs are playing; the admins are told when it goes live and when it is taken down, and Clear Alert works from the push.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts from Mass-Alert PlatformsCalisto: your alert system (Alertus, Singlewire InformaCast, Rave, Omnilert, or a campus or building system) posts its alerts, in CAP or JSON, to a private address in Access, and they go over the TVs at the places you chose until it cancels them (with Access).Checked 30. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Fleet | ||
| ScreenshotCalisto: Remote Control on a TV's page takes a screenshot of what the TV shows; Apple TV answers that a screenshot is not supported.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Reboot and Restart PlayerCalisto: Remote Control on a TV's page can identify, restart and reload the TV, delivered at its next check-in.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Screen Status NotificationsCalisto: Automations rules tell the admins when a TV stops checking in and when it is back, and the business can see and change those rules.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Offline SupportCalisto: a TV that powers on with no network boots from its last good answer and keeps playing.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Screen GroupsCalisto: TV Groups gather TVs, and a schedule that targets a group plays on every TV in it.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Reporting | ||
| Proof of Play LogsCalisto: Performance shows impressions, ad impressions, clicks, errors, refreshes and uptime; the player files what it is playing on every check-in.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Players | ||
| Player AppsCalisto: Apple TV, Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV run the Calisto TV app; Samsung Tizen and LG webOS open the player from hosted packages; any other browser opens it directly.Checked 28. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Meeting Room PlayersCalisto: the player runs as digital signage on Microsoft Teams Rooms and Zoom Rooms displays, and a meeting room’s TV shows the Calisto Live meeting booked in it (with Live).Checked 30. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Live Data | ||
| Business DashboardsCalisto: Power BI, Tableau and Looker dashboards are drawn through each service's own image export with your own connection, its secret kept sealed by Calisto, and refreshed on your interval; a dashboard shared by link (Looker Studio, Tableau Public, Power BI Publish to web) is drawn as a web page.Checked 30. okt. 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
What moves
Bringing your data from ScreenCloud
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
From an export file
Export your data from ScreenCloud and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.
Any spreadsheet you export from ScreenCloud can be mapped onto Calisto, column by column.
Moving from ScreenCloud
Questions about switching
Can I bring my content over from ScreenCloud?
Photos and videos (JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, MP4 and WebM) are uploaded to Display ▸ Media, from a phone too by sharing them to Calisto. Layouts are made again as designed screens, starting blank or from one of Calisto's screen layouts dressed in the business's brand, and a menu, a schedule or offers are drawn live from the business's own records.
How do I connect my TVs?
Open the Calisto TV app on Apple TV, Android TV, Google TV or Fire TV, the hosted package on Samsung Tizen or LG webOS, or the player in any other browser. The TV shows a 6-character code: enter it in Add a TV, give the TV a name, and choose what it runs.
Do my schedules come across?
Schedules are made again in Display ▸ Schedules. Each one targets TVs or TV groups and either names a screen or plays a playlist. When Approvals is turned on in Settings, only approved schedules play.
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