Web Player — Screen Setup

How to make a screen open the player by itself, on each type of device.

Every instruction below updates as you type. Leave blank and the player will resume whichever screen that browser last paired.
https://packages.vypa.co/webplayer

🖥 Windows PC or mini-PC BEST — ZERO CLICKS

Boots straight into the fullscreen player with no desktop and no browser bars. This is fully equal to a native app — if you can choose the hardware, choose this.

  1. Copy the command below.
  2. Right-click the desktop → New → Shortcut, paste it, and name it VYPA Player.
  3. Press Windows + R, type shell:startup, press Enter.
  4. Move the shortcut into that folder.
chrome.exe --kiosk --app=https://packages.vypa.co/webplayer --noerrdialogs --disable-session-crashed-bubble
Test it: restart the PC. It should land on the player with no desktop visible. Press Alt + F4 to exit kiosk mode.

⬇ Install as an app ZERO CLICKS

Works on Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, Chromebox and Android tablets. Gives a real icon that opens fullscreen — no command line needed.

  1. Open the player URL in Chrome or Edge.
  2. Press the ⬇ Install app button in the bottom-right corner (bring the bar up by moving the mouse or pressing any key).
  3. To start it automatically: go to chrome://apps, right-click VYPA Web Player, tick Start app when you sign in.
If no Install button appears, this device's browser can't install apps — use the homepage method below instead. That's expected on most TVs.

💻 Chromebox / ChromeOS ZERO CLICKS

The most reliable unattended setup there is. The device boots straight into the player fullscreen — no login, no desktop, and ChromeOS relaunches it by itself if it ever crashes.

  1. Before signing in, wipe/powerwash the device so it is at the first-run screen.
  2. Enrol it into your Google Admin console (Ctrl + Alt + E at the sign-in screen).
  3. In Admin console → Devices → Chrome → Apps & extensions → Kiosks, add the player URL below as a web app.
  4. Set it as the auto-launch kiosk app, then reboot.
https://packages.vypa.co/webplayer
Licensing: auto-launch kiosk needs the device enrolled, which requires a paid Chrome Kiosk & Signage Upgrade licence per device. Confirm current pricing with Google before quoting a customer. Without enrolment you can still get close: install the app (card above) and tick Start app when you sign in — one auto-login and it lands on the player.

🍓 Raspberry Pi ZERO CLICKS

Cheap, and boots straight into fullscreen playback. Use a Pi 4 or Pi 5 — earlier boards struggle with 1080p video.

  1. Install Raspberry Pi OS (with Desktop) and set it to boot to desktop with auto-login (sudo raspi-config → System Options → Boot / Auto Login).
  2. Create the autostart file:
    mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart && nano ~/.config/autostart/vypa-player.desktop
  3. Paste the block below, save, and reboot.
[Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=VYPA Player Exec=chromium-browser --kiosk --app=https://packages.vypa.co/webplayer --noerrdialogs --disable-infobars --disable-session-crashed-bubble --check-for-update-interval=31536000 X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Stop the screen blanking — otherwise the Pi will dim mid-playout:
sudo apt install -y xscreensaver then disable it in Preferences → Screensaver, or add @xset s off, @xset -dpms and @xset s noblank to ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart.

📺 Samsung or LG signage / commercial displays ZERO CLICKS

Business displays have a URL Launcher in firmware — the panel boots into the player on power-on with nothing to press.

Menu names move between firmware versions and models. If you can't find URL Launcher, the panel is most likely a consumer model — use the next card. Consumer sets don't have this feature at all.

📱 Consumer smart TV (Samsung, LG, Hisense, TCL) ONE CLICK

These can't auto-launch a browser. Setting the player as the homepage gets it down to a single button press, with no typing for staff.

  1. Open the TV's Web Browser (already in the app tray on every one of these sets).
  2. Go to the player URL and pair the screen.
  3. In the browser's settings, set that same URL as the homepage — and bookmark it as a backup.
Many of these TVs reopen the last-used app on power-on, so it often returns on its own. Either way the player detects a long sleep and reloads itself into a clean state.

🤖 Android TV, Google TV, Fire TV USE THE NATIVE APP

Don't use the web player here. The native app auto-starts, survives reboots properly and caches more aggressively.

Get it from the downloads page — one APK covers TV, tablet and mobile.

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