Guide

With the GuideAPP, a display becomes part of a tour: whoever guides a visitor group through the premises switches the matching content onto the display at each station — with a single tap on their phone, without searching in the admin area. Everything is controlled from the revolutionSCREEN app; the GuideAPP is the part that runs on the display.

A tour is a prepared sequence of stations. Each station links a display with its content — slides from the media library, a ready-made Playlist, a Layout or an app. The preparation is done once at your desk; on the move, one tap per station remains. Between stations, the displays return to their normal content.

Typical uses: factory tours, open days, customer visits, apprentice walkthroughs, investor appointments — each with its own content and, if needed, in several languages.

• An active revolutionSCREEN subscription with at least one display
• The revolutionSCREEN app on the guide's phone (iOS or Android), signed in with the tenant's account
• For each display where slides are to be paged through: an instance of the GuideAPP (see next section)
• Network connection on the phone and on the display — the control commands are tiny, but without a network nothing can be switched

The app is installed like any other application from the Appstore and assigned to a display.

After installation, the app directly offers to create an instance. An instance corresponds to one tour route.

In the instance, the display on which the tour is to run is assigned. The preview then shows „Bereit für die Präsentation" (Ready for the presentation) — the display is waiting for the guide.

In the revolutionSCREEN app, open the tours section on the overview.

The first time, the list is empty — create new tour starts the setup. Then assign a name and language.

Next, you select the display for the first station. The list shows for each display whether it is ready (GuideAPP present, slides pageable) or only allows direct assignment.

Then you determine the content: tap individual media (the order of the taps is the slide order), a ready-made Playlist, a Layout or an app.

Before saving, you set how the station runs, and optionally add a title, speaker notes and fallback time.

All stations are then listed in the editor. Here you can change the order, remove stations and add more.

The speaker notes appear only on the guide's phone, never on the display. The fallback time determines how long the last slide remains after moving on, before the display returns to its normal content — „sofort" (immediately) or after 2, 5 or 10 minutes.

Before the first display, open the tour and press start station.

After that, you control the slides from your phone: next pages forward, the thumbnail bar allows jumps. Continue to the next station releases the display and opens the next station — its display has already been pre-warmed in the background and shows an idle image in the meantime.

• Führung beenden resets all involved displays to their normal content.
• The overview shows all tours of the tenant with station count and language.

Besides paging, a station can also assign content directly. The display then shows the Playlist, Layout or app just as the Player does anyway. For apps and layouts this is the only way — they cannot be paged through as individual slides.

When saving a station, the app therefore asks: Folien (slides — you page by hand) or Direkt zuweisen (assign directly — the Player plays itself). For apps and layouts, direct assignment is preselected.

If a tour breaks off — empty battery, closed app, network loss — a display can get stuck in the presentation. The Alle Displays zurückstellen (reset all displays) button in the "Führungen" area brings such displays back to their normal content. Tours currently running for another group are not affected.

For a second language, create a separate tour (e.g. "Werksführung DE" and "Werksführung EN") and select the appropriate content there. The station sequence can remain identical; today the language serves as a label in the overview.

• Tours are stored per tenant — after switching account you see the tours of the new tenant.
• The phone's screen stays awake during a running tour.
• A display's normal Playlist is not changed; it continues after the station.
• In halls with weak reception, it pays off to favor displays with good WiFi coverage during planning.