Some content is simply too big for one screen: a full menu across the wall behind a counter, a brand film in a hotel lobby, a product launch in a showroom window. Until now, that meant specialist video wall hardware with its own controller and its own software. With screen groups, DisplayNyx turns the screens you already manage into a video wall, and it lives in the same dashboard as every other screen you run.
What screen groups do
A screen group arranges 2 to 64 screens into a grid of rows and columns. You give the group its content, and each screen automatically shows just its own slice of it, so the whole grid reads as one big display. Every screen in the group is still a normal DisplayNyx screen underneath: it pairs the same way, reports its health the same way, and shows up in the same places.
- Any grid from a 2x1 pair to an 8x8 wall, up to 64 screens.
- A rotation of images and videos, each with its own duration, transition, playback speed, and sound.
- One screen labelled as the primary, so installers know which unit is the reference.
- The same wall deployed to any number of locations, with a pairing code for every screen at each site.
- Landscape and portrait screens mixed in one wall, each with its own rotation.
Portrait, landscape, and everything in between
Walls are rarely perfectly uniform. A menu wall might need one tall portrait screen between two wide ones, or a lobby display might have one unit that could only be mounted upside down. Each screen in a DisplayNyx wall has its own orientation, which decides the shape of its slice of the picture, and its own rotation (0°, 90°, 180°, or 270°), which turns its content to match how the unit is physically mounted. A screen's rotation overrides its location's setting for that screen only, so nothing else at the site changes.
Synchronized without a controller
A traditional video wall keeps its screens in step with a box that drives all of them. DisplayNyx does it differently: every screen works out what should be playing from the clock and the wall's rotation. They all land on the same item at the same moment because they are all doing the same calculation, not because one screen is telling the others what to do. That also means there is no single point of failure. If one screen restarts, it rejoins the wall at the right point in the rotation rather than starting again from the top.
Bezel compensation, per screen
Put two screens side by side and their frames leave a dark strip between the pictures. Split the content evenly and anything crossing that strip, a diagonal line, a circle, the edge of a logo, looks broken. Bezel compensation treats the strips as part of the picture and hides the part that would sit behind each frame, so the wall looks like one scene seen through a window frame and every line stays straight.
In DisplayNyx you set the frame width on each side of each screen in millimetres, so walls that mix panel batches or mounting brackets still line up. The Bezels tab shows a live test pattern of your exact wall while you type, with the screen you are editing highlighted, so you can see the effect before anything reaches the screens.
Where video walls work well
- Restaurants and fast food: a continuous menu board across three or four screens above the counter.
- Retail: a window display or feature wall that stops people walking past.
- Hotels, offices, and hospitals: a welcome or wayfinding wall in the lobby.
- Car dealerships and showrooms: launch films and full-size vehicle imagery.
- Events and venues: a stage backdrop or sponsor wall that updates between sessions.
It still behaves like the rest of your screens
Announcements, text-to-speech, and live voice broadcasts take over a wall the same way they take over any single screen, and the wall picks its rotation back up afterwards. Screen health alerts cover every screen in the wall, so you hear about a dead panel before your customers do. And because each screen in a wall is a regular screen, billing is simply per screen, with no separate video wall licence.
Getting started
Open Screen Groups in the dashboard, create a group with your rows and columns, enter your screen size and frame widths on the Bezels tab, add your content, and pair the screens at their location. Our step-by-step guide, How to Build a Video Wall With Regular Screens, walks through each of those steps in detail, including exactly how to measure your frames.