Setup Documentation

View Xibo CMS recommended setup and configuration for cloud hosted and self hosted digital signage deployments.

Use these resources to setup, configure, and manage Xibo software.

The documentation covers the core tasks for Xibo digital signage deployments. Start here if you need Xibo CMS installation guidance, configuration help, or deployment options.

Get Started

• Install a Xibo Cloud hosted CMS or self host
• Connect media players to your Xibo CMS
• Configure to suit your deployment

Choose your installation path

• Xibo Cloud Hosted CMS— use a managed Xibo CMS service
• Self hosted CMS— deploy Xibo CMS with Docker on your own infrastructure

Install the Player App

• Installing and Upgrading the Player App

How many media Players can I connect to Xibo?

Xibo itself doesn’t impose a hard limit on the number of media players that can connect to a single CMS.

We know of production instances of Xibo running many hundreds of media players against a single server. The limitations come from the hardware you choose to deploy your CMS on.

Asking what hardware is required is a little like asking how long the proverbial piece of string is. Everyone’s display workloads are very different depending on the frequency and content of the media updates made to the layouts the CMS is hosting, the frequency with which "Displays" connect to the CMS and how aggressively media items such as RSS feeds are set to be cached.

For most small to medium deployments, quite modest server hardware should be sufficient. For larger deployments, take the time to simulate some production workloads and then scale out from there to work out the resources you’ll need to service your media players.