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Triggers let your Fugo screens react automatically instead of only following a fixed schedule. When a trigger fires, it plays a chosen playlist on your selected screens for as long as that content runs, then your screens return to their normal rotation on their own.

Timer triggers are scheduled triggers: you set a start date and time, and Fugo automatically fires the playlist at that moment — no manual action needed. You can optionally set an end date and time too, if you want the content to stop showing at a specific point rather than running until you stop it yourself.

They're a good fit for:

Conceptually, a trigger is just a playlist with a firing rule attached — for a timer trigger, that rule is a date and time rather than a click or a CRM event. That's why triggers use the same permissions, and the same content and screen-picking flow, as playlists elsewhere in Fugo.

Triggers use the same permissions as playlists — create, edit, and publish — rather than a separate "trigger" permission. If you can already build and publish playlists, you have everything you need to build and run triggers too.

Your trigger needs a destination screen to play on. You can pair any supported smart TV or media player — see our full compatibility guide here:

👉 Devices & OS compatible with Fugo

If you don't have hardware yet, you can still build and test triggers using the Fugo Chrome extension player or the Fugo browser player, both of which let you preview playback directly from your browser.

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The Trigger step opens a picker showing every available trigger source as a card: Manual, Timer, and any connected HubSpot or Salesforce accounts. Timer needs no connection or setup to select — click it, and Fugo opens the Schedule configuration panel.

Set a start date and a start time of day. This is required — Fugo will automatically fire your playlist the moment this date and time arrive, with no manual action needed on your end.

You can optionally add an end date and time by clicking Add end time. If you set one, your content stops showing at that point and your screens return to their regular content automatically. If your end date is the same as your start date, make sure the end time is later in the day than the start time, or the schedule won't make sense.

If you don't add an end time, the trigger's own builder tells you plainly what happens: it stays active from your start time onward until you stop it manually — there's no automatic revert built in for an open-ended schedule. In practice, that means an open-ended timer trigger will keep showing its content indefinitely once it starts, so it's worth adding an end time for anything that's meant to be temporary, and treating "no end time" as a deliberate choice for content you want to leave running (like a semi-permanent lobby announcement) rather than the default.

Once your schedule is set, move to the Content step to choose what plays when the trigger fires. This is the same content picker used everywhere else in Fugo, so nothing here is trigger-specific to relearn:

Each content type keeps its own default duration — images play for a default length, videos play for their full length, and Design Studio slides play for whatever duration you assigned them in the Studio. Timer triggers don't have an associated event, so the Message (dynamic text) content type isn't available here — that option is reserved for HubSpot and Salesforce triggers, which have real event data to fill a template with.

In the Screens step, choose where this content should play. You can target screens two ways:

Switching between By Screen and By Property clears whatever you'd already selected in the other mode, so it's worth deciding which approach fits your trigger before filling it in.

You can save a trigger as a draft at any point and finish it later. Going live requires Save and Publish, which stays disabled until your trigger has a valid schedule, content chosen, and at least one screen target set.

Once published, at the scheduled start time Fugo automatically fires your playlist on the assigned screens — no one needs to be there to click anything.

A timer trigger's status badge on the Triggers page tells you where it is in its schedule:

💡 Tip: Every trigger also has a Duplicate action available from its detail panel — a quick way to reuse a timer trigger's schedule and content as the starting point for a similar one, like copying a recurring stand-up slide to a new date.

Once a timer trigger is saved, you can adjust its schedule or stop it at any time.

To change the schedule, open the trigger and click its settings icon to reopen the Schedule configuration panel, where you can update the start or end date and time.

There's currently no dedicated stop button for a timer trigger, since — unlike a manual trigger — it's designed to run unattended on a schedule you already set. To stop one before it fires, or to end one that's already active, edit it (for example, adding or moving up an end time) or delete it from the Triggers page.

Timer is one of four trigger types Fugo currently supports:

👉 Triggers Overview

👉 Manual Trigger Setup

👉 HubSpot Trigger Setup

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