Display more Content than fits on one screen right onto your audience's mobile device. This is a neat way to allow them to take your information along on the rest of their day.
A QR code is a two dimensional image which stores information in black and white pixels. It is quickly scanned by smartphone cameras and represents much more data than mere barcodes. You can share text, images, videos, or websites with your audience's smartphone displays.
Pro Tip
By using the play URL for an on-demand content as your QR Code, you not only conveniently provide a website directly to your viewer's phone, you can also change the content on screen in the process.
This is how to set up the OnSign TV QR Code App:
- Go to your Content page, click the orange “New” button, and then select “App”.
- Pick the “Text and Scrollers” tab from the sidebar menu of the pop-up window.
- Choose the “QR Code” App and fill out the following info:
- App name: Simply name the App anything you like. You find the App among your OnSign TV Content by this name.
- Text to be encoded to QRCode: Type the Content you want to trigger on the cell phone. It can be either a text or a URL to a web page, image, or video.
- QRCode color, Background color, Background image: Set color for and around the QR code. You can also go with a transparent background by checking the "Transparent Background" box below.
- Leave the editor by clicking "Save".
Now, you just need to insert this new App from your Content catalog into your Campaigns, Playlists, or Compositions.