Five pages. No manual.
Screens, Media, Playlists, Schedule, Reports. Every page does one job in plain words. Pop-ups move out of your way. Accidental deletion requires a confirmation. Our benchmark for ease is our customers, and we test with people who have never seen or used it.
Every screen on one page, status you read at a glance.
One line or one tile per screen: name, status, what it is showing, the player, control, size and network. Sort any column. Click a line for details. Add a screen with a pairing code in about a minute.
- Online and playing
- Online, nothing to show
- Dark on purpose
- Offline
- Never reported
The same colours mean the same thing everywhere in Cosmos. Orange is only ever the brand, never a status.
Tiles, compact or list
Pick the density that suits the job. Tiles are one size with the same information in the same place on every one.
My order
Drag screens into the order you think about them. It is saved for the whole team.
Drag it in. Put it in order. Say when.
Media
Pictures, video and web pages. Cosmos reads each file's size and shape and groups landscape, portrait, bar and square content so a portrait screen never gets a landscape file by mistake. One thumbnail per file. Archive keeps a file playable but out of the library.
Playlists
Order the items, set how long each plays, preview on a real player page. Colour code playlists store by store or state by state, and switch between tiles and a list.
Schedule
Dayparts, weekdays and campaign dates. Working hours per site put screens to sleep when you close and wake them before you open. Publishing a change puts it on the screen in seconds.
Tick one box. A row of screens moves as one.
Group the screens, tick Sync. Every member changes items at the same moment, on the server clock when it is there and on the local network clock when it is not. The Wall option spreads one picture across the group, left to right.
Measured on the lab bench: three screens changed within a frame of each other. Walls hold to about half a frame.
- Members keep their own playlists; only the beat is shared
- Works with no server on the local network clock
- Wall: one picture across many screens
- Group box sits with its members on the Screens page
Item 1 of 3 · all three screens change at the same moment
Peace of mind: your whole marketing plan, playing on every screen.
Open the dashboard, or the Cosmos tab in Command Nexus, and see that the campaign you published is on every screen it was meant for and playing right now. No deep dive into strange, complicated menus that only an engineer understands. It is all right in front of you: which screen, what it is showing, and since when.
Reports
Proof of play for any period, any screen or any campaign, as PDF or CSV. The report a supplier asks for when they fund a campaign.
Takeover
Put one message on every screen in a venue, a region or the whole fleet right now, and release it when you are done. Emergencies, launches, the big game.
Live pictures
See the actual picture on the glass from the dashboard. Off by default to save bandwidth; screens send a picture only while someone is looking.
Locations and tags
Tenant, then venue, then screen. Tag by state, room or brand and publish to the tag: Victoria, Brand X, Level 2. The screen count updates as you pick.
Working hours
Screens sleep when you close and wake before you open, per site. Dark on purpose shows amber, so nobody chases a screen that is doing what it was told.
Phone dashboard
Online and offline counts, screen pictures and one-thumb actions on your phone. Editing stays on the web, where there is room for it.
Content on one tab. The whole business fleet on the next.
Cosmos runs what plays. Command Nexus runs everything it plays on, and it is not limited to displays and signage: add your entire audio visual and IT solution, from screens, players and edge boxes to switches, access points, audio, control systems and staff radios. One business fleet dashboard, under one login, for every site you operate, with problems solved and preventative action taken before anyone reports them.
- One login: Cosmos opens as a tab inside Command Nexus, no second password
- Every device at every site on one list, AV and IT alike: online, offline, last seen, firmware
- Remote power, reboot, input and brightness from the desk, not a ladder
- A fault flagged before anyone reports it, preventative action taken, and a ticket raised against that device
- Staff radios and push-to-talk on the same dashboard as the entire AV and IT fleet
CNX Fleet
Fleet
Every device at every site, not just signage: screens, players, edge boxes, switches, access points, audio and control systems. Health, uptime, firmware, remote power and reboot. Faults flagged in minutes, not weeks, and fixed before they are reported.
Cosmos Signage
Content
What plays, where and when. Opens as a tab in Command Nexus with no second login. The content stays on the screens; the fleet view shows it playing.
CNX MDM
Devices
Android screens and players locked down, updated and relaunched from the dashboard: kiosk mode, app updates, the watchdog that brings a player back.
Cloud Comms
Radios
Staff radios and push-to-talk across sites on the same dashboard: channels, who is on, and the knob on the wall.
CNX Service
Service
A service desk tied to the fleet. A fault becomes a ticket, a ticket becomes a fix, and the history stays with the device.
Sites and people
Structure
Tenant, site, device. People with access levels across every module. Adelaide sees Adelaide; head office sees everything.
One login if you run Command Nexus. Multi-factor authentication if you don't.
Cosmos can be authorised under a Command Nexus login, so a fleet manager opens it as a tab with no second password. Everyone else, including outside content agencies, gets their own Cosmos login with multi-factor authentication and a role: administrator or operator.
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- A role per person: administrator or operator
- Outside agencies without a CNX account
- Light or dark dashboard, your choice
Delete rule
Nothing is deleted while a playlist or schedule still uses it. The button is red, it tells you what would be affected, and you type the word delete.
Secure by design
Screens only call out. Play links are tokenised per screen. With the Android app the content lives on the screen. Cosmos runs in an Australian data centre or on your own network.
The secure signage page →Runs on the screens you have, and the ones you buy next.
Cosmos is a web player at heart, with a native app where a screen can take one. That is why it reaches old and new hardware alike.
| Platform | How | Offline store | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Android screens and players (our range, Philips, boxes) | Cosmos app, pairs by code, optional kiosk lock | Yes, all content on the device | Available |
| LG webOS signage screens | Web player, lighter page for older models | Browser cache | Available |
| Any browser: Windows, BrightSign, Chrome OS, Fire TV | Web player via a tokenised link | Browser cache | Available |
| Samsung Tizen | Tizen web app | Planned | Next |
| Windows app | WebView2 shell with on-device store | Planned | Next |
| Raspberry Pi, NovaStar LED controllers | Research | - | Later |
See the dashboard with your own screens on it.
We will pair one of your screens during the demo.