Bring your own
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BrightSign players are purpose-built for one job: keep a screen running, flawlessly, forever. No background app updates, no system notifications, no OS-level interruptions. They boot directly into your content and stay there — which is why they power digital signage in airports, casinos, and retail chains across the world. Hangar.Media runs natively on BrightSign's built-in runtime. The full platform — real-time updates, offline caching, multi-zone layouts, live data widgets — works without modification. Pair it with BrightSign's enterprise I/O options and you can trigger content from sensors, cameras, point-of-sale systems, and physical buttons.

Raspberry Pi turns a credit-card-sized computer into a fully capable, remotely managed digital signage player — at a fraction of the cost of dedicated hardware. Pair a Pi 5 or Pi 4 with a large SD card and you have offline content storage measured in hundreds of gigabytes, not megabytes. Because it runs standard Raspberry Pi OS (Debian), every configuration decision is yours to make. Chromium kiosk mode, systemd auto-start, SSH remote management, GPIO hardware triggers — all of it is accessible. It\'s the platform for teams who want full stack visibility and no black-box hardware constraints.

LG's commercial displays run webOS — a purpose-built platform for always-on signage. The built-in player connects directly to your Hangar.Media display URL via the SI Server setting, eliminating the need for any additional media player hardware. One display. One cable. One dashboard. LG's commercial panel range covers everything from 43-inch lobby screens to 98-inch large-format displays, OLED video walls, and outdoor high-brightness cabinets. All run the same webOS platform with the same Hangar.Media integration. Scale from one screen to a thousand without changing your workflow.

Android's openness is its superpower for digital signage. The same Hangar.Media platform that runs on a £99 Android TV box runs identically on a £2,500 Samsung SSSP commercial display — because both run Android. Your hardware choice is driven by budget, environment, and scale, not by software compatibility. Android Enterprise is the most mature MDM ecosystem in the industry. Lock Task API provides true kiosk mode at the OS level — not a browser workaround. Zero-Touch Enrollment provisions devices from the factory. And Google Play Protect keeps your fleet secure without you having to lift a finger.

ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex are purpose-built for the kind of centrally-managed, locked-down computing environments that digital signage demands. Google Admin Console's Kiosk App Mode removes the OS entirely from the user's view — devices boot directly into Chrome, straight to your Hangar.Media display URL. ChromeOS Flex takes this further: breathe new life into existing Windows or Mac hardware by flashing ChromeOS Flex for free, then enrolling via Google Admin. Your five-year-old laptop becomes a managed signage player in 20 minutes at zero hardware cost. For education and enterprise, nothing beats it.

Linux gives you total control over every layer of the signage stack. The OS, the browser, the startup sequence, the file system, the network configuration — every decision is yours. There are no proprietary drivers to navigate, no licensing costs to manage, and no platform restrictions to work around. Chromium in kiosk mode on Ubuntu or Debian delivers the complete Hangar.Media web player. A single shell script handles auto-login, screen blanking prevention, and Chromium startup. Ansible, SSH, or Fleet.dm give you remote management across a fleet of Linux signage players — all with the transparency and auditability that open source uniquely provides.

Windows is the most widely deployed OS in enterprise environments, which means your organisation likely already has the hardware, the IT expertise, and the management infrastructure to run it. Hangar.Media runs in any modern browser — Chrome, Edge Chromium, Firefox — so deployment is as simple as opening a URL. Windows Assigned Access locks the device to a single application: your browser, your Hangar.Media URL. Microsoft Intune pushes this configuration to every device in your estate. No manual configuration at each screen. No physical access required after the initial deploy. Your existing Windows fleet is now a managed signage network.