Device settings
Home screen, slideshow, screen, sound, kiosk lock and device details, per tab
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Here you find all the settings of a device, per tab, with their defaults and limits. There are six, each a tile above the forms. How to get there, how search works and when something goes to the device is described in Manage a tablet or kiosk. The home screen is covered step by step in Set up the home screen and a slideshow and the night rest in Set up a night rest for the screen.
Every rule has an icon, a short explanation and, where it makes sense, the app's default. Choose Device (or leave a number empty on Default) if the tablet may keep its own choice. On and Off override that choice.
Rules that only work on a provisioned kiosk show a warning as long as the tablet is not one yet: Available once this tablet is a provisioned kiosk device. Those steps are described in Set up a kiosk.
Home screen
Welcome text, background and the buttons guests see when no receipt is on the screen.
Welcome text
Welcome title (maximum 60 characters) and Welcome subtitle (maximum 120) appear at the top of the home screen. Leave a field empty if the app may keep its own text.
Look
Look (marker 1):
- Background photo shows the organisation's background behind the logo. On by default.
- Background darkening is a percentage from 0 to 90. Default 45, so the logo and the buttons stay legible on a light photo.
- Logo style is White silhouette (the default) or In color on a card.
Buttons
Buttons (marker 2):
- Prepaid button opens balance, top-up and paying with an NFC card. On by default.
- Settings button shows a button to the settings on the device itself. If it is off, you get there by tapping the home screen three times.
- When to show is Always, or After a tap. With After a tap you fill in Hide after, in seconds. After that the button disappears again until someone taps the screen.
- Settings code is 4 to 6 digits. The device asks for this code before its own settings open. Empty means no code. Anything other than 4 to 6 digits cannot be saved.
Slideshow and buttons
Photos that the home screen alternates, and extra buttons to a web page.
Slideshow
Display (marker 1) has three positions:
- Off shows no photos.
- As background alternates the photos behind the logo and the buttons, instead of the organisation background.
- Full screen when idle takes over the whole screen as soon as nobody touches the screen.
As soon as the display is not on Off, you can add up to 20 photos. Upload photo accepts JPEG, PNG or WebP. Add link pastes an https address of an image. For each photo you can set a caption of up to 80 characters.
- Time per photo is how long each photo stays, from 3 to 600 seconds. A new slideshow starts at 10.
- Start after only applies to full screen: seconds without a touch before the slideshow starts, from 10 to 3600. A new slideshow starts at 60.
- Fit: Fill the screen crops the edges, Show whole photo keeps the whole photo with black borders. A new slideshow starts at Show whole photo.
A touch on a full-screen slideshow brings back the home screen.
Extra buttons
Extra buttons (marker 2) are shortcuts on the home screen, for example a map or the guest network. You can have six.
For each button you fill in the text on the button, a short description, the web address and an icon. You pick the icon from the row: map, website, information, calendar, food and drink, wifi, phone or tickets. When to show works the same as for the prepaid button: always, or only after a tap and then hide again.
Add button creates an empty row. The bin icon removes that button. Let device decide discards the list from Tillor, so the tablet uses its own buttons. As long as you have not saved any buttons yet, that sentence is also shown: no buttons have been set from Tillor.
Screen and sleep
Brightness, rotation, colours and when the screen goes off at night.
Brightness
If you are looking for a setting, try brightness in the search box, see Search across all tabs.
- Kiosk mode keeps the screen on, with receipts, signing and brightness control. On by default on a tablet or kiosk, off on a phone.
- Keep screen on prevents the screen from falling asleep. On by default, off on a phone.
- Dim when idle goes to full brightness on a touch and dims afterwards. On by default, off on a phone.
- Dim after is the number of seconds without a touch, from 5 to 3600. Default 15.
- Dimmed brightness is the percentage in that dimmed state, from 0 to 100. Default 0.5%.
The night rest below takes precedence over Keep screen on: during the sleep hours the screen still goes off or black.
Display
- Screen orientation is Rotate automatically (the default), Portrait or Landscape. Fix a kiosk in an enclosure, otherwise the image rotates when someone holds the tablet at an angle.
- Appearance is Follow the device, Light or Dark.
Night rest
Night mode (marker 1) has three positions:
- Off schedules no sleep.
- Fixed hours uses From and To. A schedule that runs past midnight, such as 22:00 to 07:00, is allowed. The screen goes off in that block, even if it should stay on the rest of the day. Touching it wakes it briefly.
- When the organization is closed follows the organisation's opening hours.
At the top right of the group it shows when the next sleep falls.
Sleep style:
- Black overlay lays a black layer over the image. The screen stays touchable, so a tap wakes it immediately.
- Screen off really switches the panel off. It wakes up at the end of the schedule, or from Wake screen under Remote actions. This works fully on a tablet that is provisioned as a kiosk device. Waking remotely only works if the app is also on the battery exception list, see Battery.
Receipts and sound
What the tablet does when Tillor sends a document, and which sounds it plays.
Receipts and documents
Marker 1:
- Show receipts and documents puts PDFs, images and signing requests on this device. On by default, off on a phone. Turn it off on a tablet that should only be a home screen and must not show receipts.
- Clear after is the number of seconds a receipt stays before the device removes it itself, from 5 to 900. Leave it empty to wait until Tillor clears the screen.
Sound
Marker 2. Everything below is on by default, volume at 100%.
- Startup sound plays when the app starts or restarts.
- Sound for receipts and documents plays when a receipt, image or signing request arrives.
- Sound for online payments plays when an invoice has been paid online, or by automatic transfer.
- Low battery sound plays a warning when the battery is almost empty and the charger is not connected.
- Volume is 0 to 100. On a kiosk you can fix this with Lock the volume on the Kiosk tab.
Play test sound is under Remote actions, not on this tab.
Kiosk
Only useful on Android. The setup (owner of the device, battery, USB) is described in Set up a kiosk. This tab is where you set the switches afterwards.
Status
Three tiles (marker 1) show what the tablet said in its last report. They are not settings.
- Kiosk device is green with Provisioned kiosk: the lock is complete. A warning means screen pinning (the app is not the owner) or that the app is not locked at all. A dash means this app version does not report the status yet.
- Home screen is green if Tillor is the home screen. Otherwise it says that Tillor is not yet, or that the app has not reported it yet.
- Screen lock warns if a pattern or PIN is set on the tablet. After a restart the device then keeps waiting at the lock screen. Green means a restart ends in Tillor.
Lock
Marker 2. By default these three are off, until you turn them on yourself.
- App as home screen makes Tillor the home screen. Clock and battery stay visible. Android only, and only with an app build that supports this.
- Lock the app keeps the tablet in the Tillor app. On a provisioned kiosk a guest cannot leave it. Without that setup Android falls back to screen pinning: someone at the tablet has to confirm it, and it can be exited.
- Hide system UI removes notifications, recent apps and the power menu. Clock and battery stay. This only works once the tablet is provisioned as a kiosk device.
Android management
Everything in this group (marker 1) only applies to a provisioned kiosk. On any other device you see the warning at every rule and the buttons are off. The switches are off by default. The two numbers are empty: the tablet then keeps its own brightness and timeout.
- Lock down the device blocks factory reset, safe mode, new users, USB transfer, uninstalling and force stop. Turn this off before you install an update over USB.
- Remove screen lock removes the pattern or PIN. It takes effect as soon as that pattern or PIN has been entered one more time.
- Stay on while charging keeps the screen on during opening hours as long as the charger is connected. The night rest still switches it off.
- Lock the volume fixes the volume from Sound.
- Updates while asleep installs system updates while the screen sleeps, and postpones them as long as the tablet is in use.
- Automatic time requires automatic date, time and time zone, so that sleep follows the opening hours.
- Screen brightness is a fixed brightness of the tablet itself, from 1 to 100, with automatic brightness off. Leaving it empty keeps the tablet's setting.
- Screen timeout is the number of seconds (15 to 3600) after which Android switches the screen off if the app does not keep it on. Leaving it empty keeps the tablet's setting.
Device
Name, type, language and alerts. Apply to all kiosks copies the language to the other devices of the same type, and leaves the name, type and alerts alone.
Marker 1:
- Name is what you see in the list and on the device, for example
Self-service kiosk. Maximum 80 characters. - Type is Tablet, Kiosk or Phone. The type determines the text on Apply to all … and a few defaults: on a phone, kiosk mode, receipts, keep screen on and dimming start off.
- Language is the only list that collapses, because there are more options than fit in a row of buttons. Default follows the tablet's language. Otherwise you choose a language of the Tillor app. The names are shown in that language itself.
- Alerts notifies the people who manage the settings if this device has been offline for 10 minutes, or if the battery drops below 15% without a charger. During the night rest no offline alert is sent. Off by default.
The language here is the language of the app on the tablet. You can see the language of the Android system under Diagnostics, as Device language.