Guide app: everything on your phone

With the Guide app you control your displays from your phone during a company tour: before each station just one tap, and the display shows exactly the slides you're talking about. After the tour, all displays return to their normal content by themselves. This guide takes you step by step from downloading the app to a finished tour.

• The planner sets up the displays once in my.rstv.app and assembles the tours — on the phone or more conveniently on the computer at guide.revolutionscreen.net.
• The guides only need the app on their phone: open the tour, start a station, flip through, finish.

Both sign in with a perfectly normal revolutionSCREEN account. Tours belong to the company's account — everyone signed in there sees the same tours.

• An active revolutionSCREEN subscription with at least one display
• A smartphone or tablet: iPhone/iPad from iOS 15 or Android from version 5.1
• Login credentials for a revolutionSCREEN account (email and password)
• Internet on the phone and on the displays — the commands are tiny, but without a connection nothing can be switched

The app is free and is called revolutionSCREEN in the App Store and revolutionSCREEN Signage on Google Play. The fastest way is with your phone camera using these QR codes:

If you're already reading this guide on your phone, tap directly on the matching link: revolutionSCREEN in the App Store · revolutionSCREEN Signage on Google Play.

Open the app. In the top right you choose the language (DE, EN, FR, IT). Enter the email address and the password of your revolutionSCREEN account and tap Anmelden (Sign in). It's the same account as on my.rstv.app — no separate registration is needed.

So that you can flip through slides on a display, that display needs its own instance of the Guide app. The planner does this once on the computer — then never again.

Sign in at my.rstv.app, click Apps on the left and open the Guide app. If it's not installed yet, you'll find it in the app store via search and click Installieren (Install).

Click Neue Instanz (New instance) in the top right. Create a separate instance per display and give it a descriptive name, ideally the location.

In the Display field, select the device the tour should run on and click Speichern & Schliessen (Save & close). The preview on the right shows the idle image displayed while it waits for the Guide.

In the app, tap Führungen on the overview.

You see all your company's guided tours with the number of stations and the language. Tap Neue Führung anlegen.

Give the tour a Name, choose the Sprache (language) and tap Anlegen. The numbers in the images run through to step 6 — so you can see how the steps follow one another.

A Station is a display with its content. First choose the display. The note bereit (ready) means: the guide instance exists, slides can be paged through. nur Direktzuweisung (direct assignment only) means: the instance from step 3 is missing.

Now you define the content. The green bar confirms that the app has found the display's guide instance. At the top, choose the type — Medien, Playlists, Apps or Layouts — and tap the media in the order in which they should appear. The number in the top right of each tile shows the position. Then tap Als Station sichern.

Complete the station:

• Titel der Station (station title) — appears in your station list, for example «Begrüssung im Foyer».
• Sprechzettel (talking points) — your notes. They only appear on your phone, never on the display.
• Rückfall auf den normalen Inhalt (fallback to normal content) — how long the last slide stays on screen when you move on: immediately, after 2, 5 or 10 minutes. Handy when the group is still standing in front of it.

Tap Station sichern.

You are back in the tour. With Station hinzufügen you set up the next display — just as in step 5. The arrows next to a station change the order, the bin removes it. Once everything is in place, tap Speichern.

Open Führungen and tap the name of the tour (with the start button). You see the first station with its display, title and your talking points. When you are standing in front of the display with the group, tap Station starten. Use the numbers to jump to another station if needed.

The display now shows the first slide. Weiter pages to the next one, the arrow on the left goes back, the thumbnails below jump directly to a slide. When you are done, tap Weiter zur nächsten Station and move on with the group to the next display.

At each further station, tap Station starten again. After the last station, tap Führung beenden: all displays involved return to their normal content.

Open Führungen, tap Bearbeiten on the tour and then on the station. You change the title, talking points and fallback time directly — they are saved when you leave the field. You can also choose a separate idle image just for this station here, for example when landscape and portrait displays are mixed.

If a guided tour stops unexpectedly — empty battery, closed app, no network — revolutionSCREEN resets the displays on its own after a while. It's faster to do it by hand: open Führungen (Guided tours) and tap Alle Displays zurückstellen (Reset all displays). Guided tours currently running for another group are not affected.

Guided tours can also be put together in the browser: at guide.revolutionscreen.net you log in with the same account and find the same guided tours — with more space, stations to drag, a calendar for appointments, and the Guides area for invitations. Whatever you save there is instantly available in the app on your phone.