The Daily Restart feature in ScreenCloud automatically reboots your digital signage device at a scheduled time each day. This helps maintain optimal performance, prevents playback issues, and ensures your content displays reliably over extended periods of continuous operation. For additional reliability, enabling Start at Boot ensures the ScreenCloud Player automatically launches when the device powers on or restarts, helping your screens recover automatically after outages or unexpected reboots.
Why enable Daily Restart?
Devices and apps running continuously for extended periods can experience memory leaks, slowdowns, or occasional crashes. A scheduled daily restart helps by:
Clearing memory leaks and refreshing system processes
Improving app stability and preventing crashes from prolonged operation
Helping apply updates and resetting accumulated errors
Ensuring your digital signage content continues to play reliably
Why enable Start at Boot?
Start at Boot automatically launches the ScreenCloud app whenever the device powers on or restarts. This means if your device loses power, crashes, or reboots unexpectedly, your digital signage content will resume playing on its own — no manual intervention needed. We recommend enabling this alongside Daily Restart for uninterrupted playback.
Setting up Daily Restart and Start at Boot
ScreenCloud OS (SCOS)
Select an already paired ScreenCloud OS Station P1 screen in your account.
Click Open in RDM or click the device icon.
Select Settings.
Select the Daily Restart option and enable it.
Select the hour you want the device to restart.
Start at boot comes auto-enabled as the ScreenCloud player is pre-installed on the SCOS device.
If the Daily Restart option is greyed out, please reboot the device to get it online and make sure the green antenna RDM signal is showing, as depicted in the image below.
Daily Restart for ScreenCloud OS can only be enabled from the ScreenCloud menu and not the ScreenCloud player menu.
PIXI
Press the menu (☰)or OK button on your remote to open the ScreenCloud player menu.
Navigate to Daily Restart, toggle it on, and choose your preferred restart time.
Start at boot is auto-enabled as the ScreenCloud player is pre-installed on the PIXI device.
To see more details about the PIXI player menu, please see here.
Android and Fire OS (Amazon)
Open the ScreenCloud Player app on your Android or Fire OS (Amazon) device
Press the select (center d pad) or menu (☰) button on your remote to open the ScreenCloud app menu.
Navigate to Daily Restart, toggle it on, and choose your preferred restart time.
Optionally, navigate to Start at Boot and switch it on. When you first install ScreenCloud on Android and Fire OS you are asked to enabled Start at boot from the get go.
Learn more about the Android player here and the Fire OS (Amazon) player here.
Windows and macOS
Open the ScreenCloud Player app on your Windows or macOS device.
With the mouse cursor, click the screen or click the top right corner of the screen to open the player menu. You can also right-click and select "Toggle setting menu".
Find Daily Restart, toggle it on, and choose your preferred restart time.
For the Start at Boot option, enable Launch on startup.
Learn more about the Windows player here and macOS player here.
LG webOS Signage
Open the ScreenCloud Player app on your display.
Select the S.MENU button on your LG remote.
Find Daily Restart, toggle it on, and choose your preferred restart time.
The Start at Boot option is auto-enabled as soon as ScreenCloud is installed on the display.
Learn more about the LG webOS Signage player here.
Samsung Tizen
Open the ScreenCloud Player app on your display.
Press the Info or 'C' button on your Samsung remote
Find Daily Restart, toggle it on, and choose your preferred restart time.
The Start at Boot option is auto-enabled as soon as ScreenCloud is installed on the display.
Learn more about the Tizen player here.
ChromeOS
Daily Restart and Auto-Launch (start at boot) are managed in Chrome Device Management.
Learn how to enable Daily Restart here.
Learn how to turn on Auto-Launch here (step 7).
Learn more about the ChromeOS player here.
Player's where Daily Restart and Start at Boot are not available
If the setting is missing from your device, this means the hardware and OS does not support it. The players' that have no daily restart feature are:
Verifying daily restart has occurred
You will know that Daily Restart is enabled or disabled in the screen's settings.
Daily Restart enabled
Daily Restart disabled
To check if Daily Restart is occurring, there are a few ways you can do this.
Check the device audit logs with View Activity — after the daily reboot the device will briefly go offline then come back online.
Check the Uptime shown in the side menu of the Desktop Player on the device itself. Compare uptime before and after the scheduled window to confirm it ran.
Change the Daily Restart time to a point within the next hour, then wait to confirm whether the restart occurs. If the screen and device restart successfully, update the setting to your intended Daily Restart time now that you have confirmed the feature is working correctly.