> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.readout.tv/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The TV schedule

> Reminders, family messages, shows, slideshows, radio and bedtime on the household's TVs.

With the [home agent](https://docs.readout.tv/home/home-agent.md) running, the household's TVs can do things on their own, at
the times you set. Open **Menu → TV schedule**, or **Schedule** at the top of the remote on a phone.
Anyone in the account can change it.

## Describe it in words

Type what you want, such as "Remind Dad to take his pills at 9 every morning, and ask him to press
OK", and Claude fills in the item for you to look over and add.

## What it can put on the TV

> [accordion] A reminder
>
> It pops up over whatever is on (on an LG), or switches the TV to a full-screen reminder and back.
> With **Ask whoever is watching to press OK**, it stays until someone presses OK on the TV's
> remote, and the app shows **Confirmed** with the time, or **Not confirmed**. It can flash the
> lights and chime. Full screen, it has a background for what it's about: medication, a meal, sleep,
> an appointment, exercise, water or a call.

> [accordion] A message from the family
>
> Who it's from, what it says, and a photo beside it if you like, full screen on the TV. **Send
> now** puts it on the TV straight away. It can ask them to press OK once they've read it.

> [accordion] A show or channel
>
> A channel the TV tunes itself, an app (opened at a show or video, if you paste its link), or an
> input such as a cable box. With an end time, the TV goes back to what was on, or turns off.

> [accordion] A slideshow
>
> A photo album from your account, as a slideshow.

> [accordion] The home board
>
> The time, big, with the day, the date and the weather.

> [accordion] The radio
>
> A [radio station](https://docs.readout.tv/home/radio.md) on a TV or speaker, with captions if you like.

> [accordion] Bedtime
>
> Turns the TV off at the time you set.

> [accordion] A drop-in
>
> With a webcam on Readout's screen, a [drop-in](https://docs.readout.tv/home/video-calls.md) at a set time, such as a check
> on someone each hour.

## Seeing what happened

**Day** shows one day: what each item did on the TVs, and what's next. **Week** and **Month** are
calendars. **All** lists every item, each with a switch to pause it.

[Activity](https://docs.readout.tv/account/activity-and-notifications.md) lists what the TVs did, such as a reminder nobody
confirmed, and can notify your phone.


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