Download Putty
Leave everything else as default, change the Host Name to the name or IP address of your pi then click open
A black screen will pop up with "login as:" written
login as pi with the password raspberry (or whatever you changed it to)

On macOS and Linux, there is no need to download any software. You can use ssh directly from your Terminal.

Navigate to the /tmp folder (try cd /tmp) Open the log file with your favorite editor (nano is easy to use) screenly_viewer.log

In Putty, to copy something simply select it, that its it, it's now magically in your clipboard ready for pasting.

Console Access

To access the console while Screenly OSE is Running Simply hit CTRL + ALT + F1

Enabling SSH

See the official documentation

Updating Screenly

From a Console Run:

bash <(curl -sL https://www.screenly.io/install-ose.sh)

Accessing the SQLite Database

This section is for power users only; DO NOT mess around with the database unless you know what you are doing.

For most users, it's recommended that you use the API instead.

The SQLite Database can be found here: ~/.screenly/screenly.db

Its a SQLite Database and can be modified with the sqlite3 CLI. The schema is relatively straight forward if you are a developer; the columns of most interest to you will be name and is_enabled. In addition start_date is useful if you want to use this in a disconnected manner.

Wi-Fi Setup

We've attempted to restore the Wi-Fi connectivity feature by introducing Balena's wifi-connect as a Docker service. At present, a lot of Wi-Fi connectivity issues have been reported. As a result, we temporarily disabled Wi-Fi connectivity in instances running Raspberry Pi OS Lite.

For Raspberry Pi devices running Raspberry Pi OS Lite, you can run the following in order to stop the wifi-connect service:

docker stop screenly-anthias-wifi-connect-1

Alternatively, you could do it via docker compose:

docker compose stop anthias-wifi-connect