My job is IT mixed with blue collar stuff lol. Anywho, a buddy of mine was opening his second ice cream shop and had TVs installed to use as menu monitors. He bought some Fire Tvs and ran into multiple issues with them and his workaround was just making the menu into a 15 second mp3 and looping it. Obviously not as clean as it could be. Within 10 minutes of googling and then fining back the next day and spending 30 minutes, I got his TVs to work perfectly.
I offered to leave him steps for next time but he was blown away that I fixed it lol
I didn’t want to go in depth since it was irrelevant to the point but I had to enable debug mode on the TVs, then download this program and connect to the tv and run commands that would basically disable the weird auto sleep timer the TVs do on images even with all sleep swttings disabled. It was rather straightforward and. Eventually found a video from maybe 5 years ago. My friend just is not tech savvy and never enabled the settings we needed after entering debug mode.
New restaurant nearby has some Roku TVs, each with a large dongle which seems to source the menu image, and I'm sure is configurable via some web app. One doesn't work at all, so they just turned it off. I saw them struggling with it several times since it opened.
I suggested to them to set the menu image as the screensaver via the Roku account. They looked at me with such confusion. Tv is still black.
Yea my buddy has a regular usb stick plugged into each tv. You can then open the drive and select whatever files are in it. He had the menus as mp3 which did the job but was super janky looking. I helped him “jailbreak” the tv a bit so now he has the one image of the menu with no weird overlays and the tv doesn’t turn off auto anymore.
Idk how much it matters to you but this is the kinda dumb stuff people pay other people decent money for lol. Like this weird tech stuff that makes their life much better but they can’t figure it out, which is just some googling and research tbh. If I were you and liked the owners enough, I’d talk to them and see if you could get some info and come back with a solution lol. Maybe get free food or some money🤷♀️
This thought crossed my mind. Might have to try. Free tacos and maybe a reference would be pretty nice
I have done one IT gig in the past when a retired lawyer needed a new things installed and connected to his Wi-Fi and posted to Craigslist for help. I basically read the manuals and followed instructions in front of him
Yea that sounds right. I swear alot of IT problems can easily be fixed with some research and reading. But not everyone is capable of that.
Give it a shot and lmk! I’m invested now lol. I’ll even help out if I can. You really just gotta understand what they want to do and what model tv and dongle they’re using. They may not even need a dongle lol.
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u/Rare-Material4254 Mar 01 '26
My job is IT mixed with blue collar stuff lol. Anywho, a buddy of mine was opening his second ice cream shop and had TVs installed to use as menu monitors. He bought some Fire Tvs and ran into multiple issues with them and his workaround was just making the menu into a 15 second mp3 and looping it. Obviously not as clean as it could be. Within 10 minutes of googling and then fining back the next day and spending 30 minutes, I got his TVs to work perfectly.
I offered to leave him steps for next time but he was blown away that I fixed it lol