GarlicSignage – open-source Digital Signage Software

Modular open-source digital signage, built on the SMIL standard.

Garlic-player has been running on around 2000 screens in production since 2020.

Most component works on their own. Use one, combine a few, or run all of them.

Project What it does Standalone Platform

garlic-player SMIL media player Yes, even from a USB stick Linux, Android, macOS, Windows

garlic-hub CMS & Device Management Yes, exports standard SMIL Self-hosted

garlic-launcher Root-free Android kiosk launcher Needs an Android player Android

garlic-proxy Proxy for restricted network environments Optional Self-hosted

garlic-widgets HTML5 widget library (W3C Packaged Web Apps) Yes HTML5

garlic-widgets-jetbrains Widget development plugin Yes JetBrains

garlic-widgets-vscode Widget development plugin Yes VS Code

In development: garlic-analytics (playback reporting for digital signage player)

SMIL is what a broadcast schedule is to television: it defines what plays, when, and where. Not how it looks. It is W3C standard since 1998 and vendor-neutral. SMIL was built to schedule and synchronize media across zones, playlists, and devices. Not to render content.

The digital signage industry has spent decades reinventing this wheel behind proprietary walls. SMIL breaks that forced marriage between CMS and player, enabling open, interoperable infrastructure any vendor can build on. And it breaks the vendor lock-in that the industry profits from.

Most projects are AGPL-3.0, some like the Widgets are MIT Licensed.

All free to use. Fully open.

Bug reports and feature requests → Issues in the respective repo

Questions → Discussions

Commercial support & custom development → smil-control.com

Support the project → GitHub Sponsors