Scheduling Playback

The Vū Studio scheduler lets you automate content playback — set assets, scenes, or experiences to play automatically at specific times without anyone needing to be present. Useful for digital signage, recurring events, and overnight content rotations.

Accessing the Schedule

Go to Library → Dashboard → Schedule to view and manage your scheduled playback calendar.

The calendar view shows all upcoming scheduled items at a glance. Switch between day, week, and month views.

Creating a Schedule Item

1. In the Schedule view, click New Schedule or click a time slot on the calendar
2. Select the content to play — an asset, folder, scene, or experience
3. Set the start time and end time (or duration)
4. Set the recurrence — once, daily, weekly, or custom
5. Select the player (or player group) to play on
6. Click Save

At the scheduled time, Vū Studio automatically sends the play command to the player. The player must be online and connected for scheduled playback to execute.

Recurrence Options

Option	Description
Once	Plays one time only
Daily	Repeats every day at the same time
Weekly	Repeats on selected days of the week
Custom	Set specific dates and times

Display Power and Playback Actions

Beyond playing content, the scheduler can send power and playback actions to connected displays, so screens can power down, wake, and stop playback automatically:

• Sleep — put a connected display to sleep at a set time
• Wake — wake a connected display so it's ready ahead of an event
• Exit Playback — stop the current playback on a connected display

Schedule these the same way as content: choose the action, set the time and recurrence, and select the player or player group to apply it to. This is useful for powering displays down overnight and waking them again before opening hours.

Folder Playback

You can schedule an entire folder to play rather than a single asset. When a folder is scheduled:

• Assets in the folder play in order
• Playback loops through the folder for the scheduled duration
• New assets added to the folder are automatically included in future scheduled runs

This is particularly useful for digital signage — drop new content into the folder and it appears in the rotation automatically.

Schedulable System Actions

In addition to playing content, the scheduler can trigger player state actions at a set time:

Action	What it does
Sleep	Puts the player's display to sleep at the scheduled time
Wake	Brings the display back from sleep
Exit Playback	Stops the currently playing content and returns the player to its idle state

Schedule these the same way you schedule content — pick the action instead of an asset, then set the time and recurrence.

Team Visibility

On a Team plan, all team members can see scheduled playback events created by other members of the team — everyone shares a single view of the team's schedule rather than only seeing their own jobs. Both personal and team scheduled tasks appear together in the schedule view.

Theme Scheduling

You can schedule themes directly from the Display Dashboard. Theme scheduling is managed from a modal on the dashboard, and the dashboard's control bar shows a notification of the next scheduled theme event. See Themes → for details on creating and loading themes.

Managing Scheduled Items

From the calendar, click any scheduled item to:

• Edit — change content, time, or recurrence. Editing is available only for items that haven't started yet. Once an occurrence has already run or is currently playing, it can no longer be edited — you can still delete it.
• Skip next occurrence — skip just the next instance without deleting the schedule
• Delete — remove the schedule entirely

When creating or editing a schedule, the start time must be in the future — you can't set a scheduled time that has already passed.

Timezone

The scheduler uses the timezone set in your Vū Studio account. If your player is in a different timezone from your account, check Settings → Timezone to make sure everything lines up correctly.

Tips

• Test your scheduled items by setting them to run in the next few minutes before setting the final time
• Use player groups to schedule the same content across multiple displays simultaneously
• Combine scheduling with Experiences for fully automated briefing center programs
• Leave a buffer between scheduled items — back-to-back scheduling with zero gap can occasionally cause the first item to not finish cleanly