Google Slides
Loop a private Google Slides deck from your account
What it does
Run a private Google Slides presentation as a self-advancing slideshow, without publishing it to the web. Sign in to your Google account, choose the deck from your Drive, and set how many slides to include; slides marked Skip slide are left out, as when you present. Edit the deck and the screens pick up the new version within about a minute, and because the slides are stored rather than streamed they keep playing even if the screen loses its connection — well suited to internal updates, onboarding and team comms in offices and staff areas.
Every app in the catalogue is part of the plan. There is no app store, no per-app charge and nothing held back for a higher tier.
How to play Google Slides on a TV
Pick a deck from your Google Drive and the screen plays it as a slideshow. Edit the deck in Google Slides and the screen updates on its own — no publishing to the web, no public link.
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Add the app
In the dashboard, open Apps and add Google Slides.
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Connect Google
Under Google account, sign in once. SignageStack asks for access only to the files you pick, not to your whole Drive.
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Pick the deck
Google's own file picker opens. Choose the presentation: that one file is all SignageStack is allowed to read.
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Decide how many slides
Leave Slides to show at 0 to play every slide, or set a number to stop after that many. Decks longer than 100 slides are cut at 100.
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Put it on a screen
Add the app to a playlist, give it a duration and publish it to the screen.
Good to know
Edits appear on their own
Change a slide in Google Slides and the screen usually follows within a minute. There is nothing to export or re-upload.
Plays through an outage
The slides are copied as images whenever the deck changes, so a screen keeps showing them while the network is down.
Shown as still images
Slides are displayed as pictures: transitions, animations and videos embedded in the deck do not play.
Questions about this app
No. It stays private in your Drive; the picker grants access to that one file only.
Yes. In Google Slides, mark the slides you do not want with Skip slide and the screen leaves them out, as presenting does. Slides to show limits the deck to its first slides.
Yes. Add the app once and use it in as many playlists and on as many screens as you like.
From the blog
- How to display Google Slides on a TV: four ways comparedCasting, a laptop on HDMI, Publish to the web or a signage app: what each is good for, and how to loop a private deck that updates itself.
- Free digital signage software: what free really costsFree digital signage software compared: USB sticks, open source and free plans, what each costs in time, and the routes to signage without a subscription.
- Smart TV digital signage: which TVs can run it on their ownWhich smart TVs run digital signage by themselves, when a Samsung or LG needs an Android box, and where a USB-stick slideshow stops being enough.
Something for every kind of screen.
Install what you need and ignore the rest. Nothing here is an add-on you pay extra for.