Reboot, power off, and delete

Restarting or powering off a screen remotely, why there is no scheduled reboot, and what deleting a screen actually does.

Reboot

On the screen's Actions tab, under Power, available on ScreenlyOS screens that are currently online. It restarts the device, after you confirm.

It is worth trying when a screen is online, in sync, and still showing something wrong, which usually means the player rather than the content. It will not help a screen that is offline, because the command cannot reach it.

Screenly Anywhere screens cannot be rebooted from the dashboard, because Screenly is an app on someone else's operating system there and cannot restart the device. Reloading the app or the page is the equivalent.

Power off

Next to Reboot. It shuts the player down remotely, for a screen that needs to be off rather than restarted, like one in a store closing for a refit.

It needs a ScreenlyOS screen running 26.8.0 or newer that is online and has a live connection to Screenly. When one of those is missing, the button is unavailable and pointing at it says which. The WebSocket row on the screen's Details tab shows whether the live connection is there.

A power off only goes out while the screen is connected. Screenly does not hold it until the screen next checks in, because a screen that switches itself off hours later, with nobody expecting it, is worse than one that stays on. Screens are powered off one at a time, each from its own page.

[!IMPORTANT] Once a screen is off, the dashboard cannot reach it. Someone has to switch it back on at the player.

There is no scheduled reboot

Deliberately.

Booting is the riskiest thing a device does. It is where a marginal power supply shows up, where a corrupted card stops being readable, and where a player that had been running fine for months fails to come back. A screen rebooting nightly takes that risk 365 times a year, and one that does not come back needs somebody to drive to it.

An occasional manual reboot is fine. A screen that needs regular reboots to keep working has a fault worth reporting, not a schedule worth automating. Contact support with the screen's ID from its Details tab.

Delete

Also on the Actions tab, under Danger zone. It removes the screen from the workspace permanently and cannot be undone.

The device itself is not wiped. It returns to showing a pairing code and can be connected again, to this workspace or another.

Before deleting, consider whether you want disable instead. Disabling frees the license too, keeps everything, and is reversible. Delete when the device is genuinely gone.