Meeting room door sign
Full-screen availability for one room: free or in use, who booked it, when it is free again, and a code to book it on the spot.
Product
Turn any screen in the building into a door sign
A tablet, a browser and a QR scan. That is the whole installation.
In short
Door James Screen turns any tablet or display into a live screen: a meeting room door sign, a floor overview of all rooms, a lobby welcome board, a you-are-here floor plan, an occupancy dashboard or an info board. A device is paired by scanning a QR code, ten ready-made layouts get it running in minutes, and the content updates in real time without anyone touching the screen again.
- Hardware
- any tablet or display with a browser
- Pairing
- scan a QR code, no installation
- Layouts
- 10 ready-made, freely editable
- Updates
- in real time, without touching the device
What Door James Screen does
Floor overview
Every meeting room of the office on one screen, with how many are free right now – the display people actually stop in front of.
Lobby welcome board
A greeting with today's meetings, for visitors who should not have to ask at reception where they are going.
You-are-here floor plan
The floor plan of an area full screen, with a pin on the spot the screen is mounted. Wayfinding without a printed plan.
Office dashboard and info board
Who is in the office today, the weather, the clock, your logo – or any web page, with a sidebar beside it.
Pair by scanning
Open the pairing address on the screen, scan the QR code with the app, done. No agent, no image, no device management.
Arrange it yourself
Start from a layout, then drag widgets, resize them and set the grid. Light, dark or follow the device.
Managed remotely
The fleet is visible in the Admin Panel with online status. Reload a screen, rename it or unpair it without walking to it.
Signage projects usually fail before the first screen
The classic route to a room display goes: choose a panel, order it per room, run cabling, install a media player, license a content management system, and find someone to maintain the whole thing. By the time the quote arrives the idea has usually shrunk to two screens on the executive floor.
The reason is that the display was treated as hardware. It is not. What people want is the information – is the room free, where am I, who is in today – and any screen with a browser can show that.
What the pairing step buys you
Pairing by QR code sounds like a small convenience. It is the part that decides whether the project happens. There is nothing to install on the device, nothing to enrol in device management, no per-screen configuration file. A colleague with a tablet and five minutes can hang a door sign, and if it turns out to be the wrong spot, unpairing costs nothing.
That changes which screens exist. Not two on the executive floor, but the one at the entrance to the project area, the one by the lifts, the one nobody would have written a business case for.
The honest limit
This is display and information, not room control. Door James Screen does not switch lighting, does not drive room automation and is not a conferencing endpoint. It shows what Door James knows about the room, the floor and the day, and it does that without a signage stack underneath it.
How it works
- 1
Open the pairing page
On the tablet or display, open the pairing address in any browser. A QR code appears.
- 2
Scan it in the app
Scan the code with Door James. The screen is now paired with your organization and a location.
- 3
Pick a layout
Choose one of the ten ready-made arrangements – door sign, floor overview, welcome board, dashboard – and adjust it if you want.
- 4
Leave it alone
From there the content updates itself. Bookings, weather, attendance and news arrive without anyone touching the device.
Who it is for
For office and facility management
Signage without a signage project: no media player, no cabling plan, no separate content system.
For IT
Ordinary browsers on ordinary hardware, paired with a scan. Nothing to roll out, nothing to patch on the device.
For reception
A welcome board that lists today's meetings, so fewer people arrive at the desk asking where to go.
Frequently asked questions
What hardware do we need?
Anything that runs a modern browser: an old iPad on a wall mount, an Android tablet, a commercial display with a built-in browser, or a mini PC on a monitor. There is no proprietary panel to buy and no vendor lock to a particular device. In practice most organizations start with tablets they already own.
Is there a licence fee per screen?
No. Screens are part of the subscription, which is licensed per user. A building with forty door signs costs the same as a building with none – that is deliberate, because a per-screen fee is exactly what stops people putting up the screen that would have been useful.
Can a room be booked at the display itself?
The door sign shows a code that leads to the booking, so the person standing in front of the room can book it from their phone. That keeps the booking tied to a real identity, which matters for the occupancy figures and for knowing who to ask when a room is held but empty.
What happens when the network drops?
The screen shows its last state and reconnects by itself. The Admin Panel shows the device as offline, so the failure is visible centrally rather than only to whoever walks past it.
Can we show our own content?
Yes. One of the layouts fills the screen with a web page, and another puts a web page next to a sidebar with clock, weather and logo. Anything you can host as a page – a dashboard, an intranet screen, a campaign – can run on the same devices.
Does it work as a check-in kiosk for visitors too?
Visitor self check-in is its own kiosk mode and part of visitor management, paired the same way with a PIN. The two are separate on purpose: a door sign is public, a check-in kiosk handles personal data.
Help Center
See this module on your own floor plan
Thirty minutes with someone who works on the product. Bring your floors, your booking rules and the awkward case you think will break it.