Point your board at idlescreen

idlescreen is a web page the board shows when it is idle. Installation consists of telling the board which address to show; nothing is installed on the device itself. An optional macro adds a few conveniences.

In Collaboration Control Hub

1. Sign in at admin.webex.com, open Devices, and find your board.
2. On the device’s Overview tab, under Configurations, click Digital signage.
3. Toggle on Enable Digital Signage and Enable Interactivity, choose URL as the signage service, paste https://idlescreen.app, and click Save.

That completes the installation — the toggle also enables the web engine and sets a standby delay. The next time the board goes idle (half-wake, about two minutes of inactivity by default), the idlescreen welcome screen appears and setup can begin.

Audio

Signage audio is off by default, and the panel doesn’t surface it. If you plan to use the Live Video widget with sound, set Standby → Signage → Audio to On under All configurations.

Equivalent commands

The same configuration, via the device’s local web interface or API:

xConfiguration WebEngine Mode: On
xConfiguration Standby Signage Mode: On
xConfiguration Standby Signage InteractiveMode: Interactive
xConfiguration Standby Signage Url: https://idlescreen.app

Which address to use

https://idlescreen.app serves the welcome screen and is the correct address for a new board. A board that has already been set up can instead carry its whole configuration inside its own address — see Back up your board for how to get that URL and why you might want it.

Recommendations

Pilot on one board before rolling out to several. Cisco also recommends signage run twelve hours a day or less — the board’s Office Hours setting controls that.