Pair your first screen

You pair a screen by entering the pairing code from the player in the dashboard. Go to Screens, click Pair screen, enter the code shown on your screen and give the screen a name.

What you need

  • A Screenbird account. When you create one, you pick a plan first and go through checkout with a 7-day trial; the onboarding follows and drops you into the dashboard. See create an account.
  • A screen with a device running the Screenbird player. The pairing wizard in the dashboard shows what to install for each type of device. If nothing is running yet, you can use the web player at player.screenbird.app instead.

Step 1: get the player onto your screen

If the Screenbird player is already running on your screen, a pairing code is shown there. Go straight to step 2.

If you still have to install the app, click Pair screen and choose Install the app first. Pick your device under What type of screen do you have? and you get the installation steps for that device. Then click I can see a pairing code, pair now →.

If you have no screen at hand, choose No screen on hand yet?. The web player opens in a new tab and shows a pairing code right away.

Step 2: pair the screen in the dashboard

  1. Go to Screens in the sidebar.
  2. Click Pair screen.
  3. Choose I can see a pairing code.
  4. Enter the code shown on your screen under Enter the pairing code and click Next.
  5. Enter a name under Screen name, Reception for example.
  6. Click Pair.

The pairing code is 6 characters long and uses digits and letters, leaving out the letters I, L, O and U. The code stays valid as long as the player sits on the pairing screen and is online.

Next to the code, the player shows a QR code that leads to screenbird.app/pair. Scan it with your phone and the code is already filled in for you, and the screen gets an English name like Screen 1, which you can change later in the screen settings. On Fire TV the QR code is not shown, so type the code into the dashboard yourself.

Step 3: send content to your screen

  1. Go to Files in the sidebar.
  2. Click New and choose Upload files, or pick an item that is already there.
  3. Right-click the item and choose Send to screen.
  4. Select your screen and click Send.

For more about the options you get when you send, such as permanent or temporary, see send content to a screen.

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