Free Digital Signage on a Raspberry Pi — Open Source, No Monthly Fees
Turn a bare Raspberry Pi into a live digital signage player in minutes — for free.
ScreenTinker is open source and self-hosted, so there are no monthly fees and no
per-screen charges. In this video I go from a blank SD card to a screen showing
exactly the content I want, with a single install command.
▶ One command does it all (installs Chromium, a full-screen kiosk service, auto-login,
auto-restart, and disables screen blanking):
curl -sSL screentinker.com/scripts/raspberry-pi-setup.sh | sudo bash
🔗 LINKS
• Free hosted plan ......... https://screentinker.com
• Source code (GitHub) ..... https://github.com/screentinker/scree...
• API Docs & self-hosting ...... https://screentinker.com/docs/
• intergrations......... https://screentinker.com/integrations/
🧰 WHAT YOU NEED
• A Raspberry Pi 4 or 5
• A microSD card (8 GB+)
• Any screen with HDMI
⏱ CHAPTERS
0:00 Why free digital signage on a Pi
0:16 What you need
0:33 Flash Raspberry Pi OS Lite
0:47 First boot
0:57 The one-command install
1:14 What the installer sets up
1:27 The player & pairing code
1:38 Add the display to your dashboard
1:48 Push content — playlists, scheduling & video walls
2:04 Wrap-up & links
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self-hosting projects. Thanks for watching!
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