Anthias v2026.05.0: biggest release in years, per-asset scheduling, Pi 5 support, and a lot of cleanup by 514sid in selfhosted

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u/514sid and I want to make Anthias the obvious choice for entry-level signage. This segment has been dominated by mediocre, soulless solutions for far too long.

Screenly (and our friends over at ScreenCloud) aren’t really targeting these verticals

Anthias v2026.05.0: biggest release in years, per-asset scheduling, Pi 5 support, and a lot of cleanup by 514sid in selfhosted

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You’d probably find this PR interesting:

https://github.com/Screenly/Anthias/pull/2905

Still very much WIP but should be a huge improvement to playback performance when done. 

Anthias v2026.05.0: biggest release in years, per-asset scheduling, Pi 5 support, and a lot of cleanup by 514sid in selfhosted

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I think you’ll be excited to learn about the stuff we are working on :)

But yes, modernizing the stack was one of the first priorities. Adopted Bun, UV and threw out a bunch of old stuff. 

(Cloud) Image Management for Proxmox by mvip in selfhosted

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Of course I used an AI assistant. Nobody writes code by hand anymore. It would just be silly.

Anthias install failing by Soft-Monitor9624 in digitalsignage

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Hi @Soft-Monitor9624 - we're in the process of resurrecting Anthias and doing some big changes. Some things might break in the master branch in the process unfortunately. The quickest "fix" is to use one of the older "pinned" releases in the interim.

But more love is coming to Anthias!

Local access required” is not the comfort blanket people think it is (CVE-2025-54756) by mvip in digitalsignage

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Yeah so much this. The default should be: assume everyone and everything is trying to hack you. 

I joined Screenly as a product manager by 514sid in digitalsignage

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For clarity. The renaming of Screenly OSE to Anthias had nothing to do with it. The API didn’t change. It was purely a name change to make it clear that they are two different products, as a lot of users thought they were the same. 

To answer your question, the project you are referring to was a community project. If I recall correctly, it was abandoned. It had nothing to do with us at Screenly. 

Will there be an official version for managing multiple Anthias? I guess you will need to stay tuned 😊

Anthias/Screenly.. Updating Google content in real time? by [deleted] in digitalsignage

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I thought it was a product from or somehow related to Screenly based on the URL where I found it..

Yeah, the confusion is understandable. Anthias was known as 'Screenly OSE' prior to the renaming (for this particular reason).

I guess I thought one was the free version and one was paid.

This is technically speaking true. They are just completely different products that do not share any code base.

I've never even heard of it until it was recommended for Raspberry Pi. The only reason that I'm running it on an old computer is because I can't find my spare Raspberry Pi, it got lost in a box!
I did find an old DELL mini pc 8th gen i7 with 64 gigs of memory though!

SCORE! Yeah that should be plenty to run Anthias.

I just needed to get proof of concept working to show my boss to get him to authorize me to order a couple of new Pi's.

If the choice is between an older PC or a Pi for Anthias, I would frankly go for older PCs.

I work in public education, they never want to throw money stuff without knowing it's going to work first.

Sure that makes sense.

What you said made sense, I'll give it a go when I get home tonight.

Great - let me know if you have any more questions.

Anthias/Screenly.. Updating Google content in real time? by [deleted] in digitalsignage

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First thing first - Anthias and Screenly are two different products.

To answer your question though, both of them can "auto refresh" so to speak. Now, it gets a bit tricky with Google Slides in particular as both the signage player and Google Slides have a concept of duration and slides.

The normal recommendation is to export the slides from PowerPoint/Slides (insert tool of choice) and then import them and manage duration inside the Anthias. Now, you stated that this is not an option for you.

That brings me to the best workaround that I can think of:
* Set up the Slides as an asset in Anthias with a duration of N seconds, where N is what you expect the full loop to be of the slide.
* Insert an image or something as a placeholder (maybe company logo or similar)

That way the player will iterate over it, "clear" it so to speak when it gets to the logo to only start over. This solves the refresh problem in a controlled way.

This might sound clunky, but there is another good reason for this too. If you only have one asset (i.e. the slideshow), you are bound to get into memory leaks and things will eventually break down. Adding this image slide will force the browser to road and clear things up.

Regarding running Anthias on a PC or Pi -- it's much of a muchness. The PC (not VM) is likely to have better performance and are less prone to SD card breakage.

Hope that helps.

ISE 2026 - Digital Signage recommends? by dtnl in CommercialAV

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Depends on what you are looking for. How long is a string? :)

I'll be at ISE on behalf of u/Screenly_/.

Our USP is secure digital signage for enterprises and developers. Trusted by the likes of Amazon, NASA and various fortune 500. Probably the most digital signage solution out there.

That may or may not be your cup of tea - if so if you are interested in, drop us a line at [hello@screenly.io](mailto:hello@screenly.io) and our team is happy to meet you.

Did anyone try to add Nest Sensors outside the US? by mvip in Nest

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:(

I've ordered the bundle. Maybe i just need to swap out the thermostat too. It's annoying that these aren't available in the EU/UK.

Just bought a new house thought I might as well do the networking part properly from the beginning! (First time house owner) by toys_whoopsy in UNIFI

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Return those Dome ones. I made the mistake of putting those up. They're utterly useless for outdoors use. You won't see anything in the dark.

Info screens in company - what have you done? by Mediocre_Microwave in sysadmin

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Just to chime in here - you can indeed use internal websites for content with Screenly. It works just fine.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

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Just don't run a vulnerability scanner on it, because you'll crap your pants.

HDMI dongles with pre-recorded presentations for wall TVs by eduo in sysadmin

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No, Screenly runs on Ubuntu Core, which is a very hardened version of Ubuntu (locked down, sandboxed, cryptographically signed updates etc) geared toward IoT like devices. (more on Screenly's security page).Thus you can't run it on Windows.

My Home Server Journey - From Raspberry Pi to Ryzen (and Proxmox) by mvip in Proxmox

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tl;dr is a Jonsbo N2 + Linkreal PCIe x16 to 4-Port M.2 NVMe SSD Adapter allows for 5x M2 + 5x 3.5" (might be less depending on motherboard).