Hotel TV without the hotel TV price tag.
The whole modern in-room experience on the TVs you already own. No coax headend, no proprietary hospitality TVs, no multi-year contract. Every screen becomes a revenue channel instead of a cost centre, for hundreds or thousands of rooms.
- Any TV
- Any PMS
- Every room
- A fraction of the cost
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Personalised for every stay from your PMS
What replacing a legacy system normally costs you
The incumbent hospitality TV providers were built in the coax era, and their pricing shows it.
A typical legacy refresh
- Headend equipment and coax or IPTV distribution, installed and maintained on site.
- Proprietary “hospitality mode” TVs, so upgrading the platform often means replacing perfectly good screens.
- Per-room licensing, separate casting appliances sold as add-ons, and installation crews walking every floor.
- Multi-year contracts that lock the property in long after the technology feels dated.
Better Hotel
- One small device in the HDMI port of any TV, or the app on Android TV and Google TV sets.
- Your existing TVs, cabling and network. No headend, no rewiring, no screen replacement.
- Casting and AirPlay built in, with a QR code that keeps each TV private to its room.
- Cloud-managed, with continuous over-the-air updates instead of upgrade projects.
For a 300-room property a legacy bill routinely runs into six figures before a single guest sees anything new on screen.
What Better Hotel does instead
The answers guests would otherwise phone down to reception for, on the TV in their room.
Every guest, by name
Reservations sync from your PMS, so each room greets its guest personally with their stay dates, WiFi details and check-out time. Your branding and background images on every screen, and messages at check-in, mid-stay and before departure, sent automatically in your local time.
A digital compendium that never needs reprinting
Your room directory, dining hours, facilities, house rules, local recommendations and check-out information, browsed with the remote. Guests can also press the microphone and ask; the AI concierge answers from your compendium, not the open internet.
Streaming, live TV and casting, room by room
Netflix, YouTube and the other apps you choose, one tap from the home screen and in the order you set. Live TV and in-house channels come through IPTV with a Now / Next guide.
- Casting by QR: on a shared hotel network every guest normally sees every room’s TV in their AirPlay and Cast list. With QR mode a TV stays hidden until a guest scans the code on that screen, and only their phone can cast to it.
- AirPlay and Cast each on, off or QR, for the property, a floor or wing, or a single room.
- Streaming logins cleared at check-out on managed boxes, and an optional PIN on adult content.
No more lost remotes
Remotes go missing, batteries go flat, and housekeeping fields the call every time. With Better Hotel the guest points their phone camera at the code on the room TV and gets a complete remote in the browser: d-pad, power, volume, playback, and their own keyboard for signing in to apps. Nothing to download or pair, on iPhone and Android alike, and no late-night call to housekeeping for a replacement remote.
- Works over the room’s WiFi only, so it never reaches a TV from outside the property.
- Each stay gets its own link, so a checked-out guest can’t control the next guest’s TV.
The TV now runs the room
Guests dim the lights, close the blinds and set the air conditioning from the bed, using the TV remote or their own phone, instead of hunting for switches or calling the front desk. It works with the Home Assistant setup your engineers already run, or with Shelly relays wired into the room, with no hub or cloud account. Each room only shows the devices you approve.
- On at check-in and off at checkout, even in standby, so empty rooms stop using power.
- Air conditioning with target temperature and mode.
- Everything stays on the property network. Nothing goes over the internet.
Things to do, booked by QR
The best tours and experiences near your hotel, with prices in your currency, reviews and a code to book on their phone. No lost concierge leaflets, no queue at the desk, and you earn commission on the partner experiences guests book.
Local weather, the moment the TV turns on
Current conditions, hour by hour for the day ahead and a 7-day outlook for your property, with wind, UV, sunrise and sunset. Weather and activities can also run as slides in the idle screensaver, so an idle TV still suggests something to do tomorrow.
An in-room store
Late check-out, early check-in, parking, cleaning and packages, sold on the biggest screen in the room. Guests scan to pay on their phone, or charge the card on file from the TV in one step.
Every room in the guest’s own language
International guests get the compendium, WiFi, weather, activities and store in their own language, 19 in all, without asking reception to translate. Pick the house language for each property; a guest who prefers another taps the flag on screen, and the room keeps it for the rest of their stay before resetting for the next arrival.
New revenue from screens you already pay for
Legacy systems are a line item. Better Hotel is a storefront in every room. When a TV is idle it becomes a digital sign for your spa, restaurant, bar, room service and events, set once for the property, a floor or a single room.
Run advertising from local partners and tourism operators on your screens and keep the revenue. See how TV advertising works →
- Emergency broadcast
- Review requests at check-out
- Plex movie library
- Ambient music
- White-label
Built for hundreds or thousands of rooms
Better Hotel runs on the same fleet platform we built for large property managers. Provision a device once and everything else happens remotely.
Every room in one dashboard
- Online status, app version and live device health for every TV.
- Over-the-air updates for the whole fleet in one click. No floor walks, no site visits.
- Wake, standby or restart any TV remotely, with every power change logged with its cause.
- Opt-in guest insights: which apps, channels and pages guests actually use, room by room.
Defaults per property, overrides per room
- Different towers, wings or brands can each look and behave differently.
- TVs power on for check-in and go to standby at check-out, with volume reset to a safe level for every stay.
- Emergency broadcast: a red alert over whatever is playing, Netflix included, to one room, a floor or the whole property, edited live.
- If the internet drops, each TV keeps running on its last-known setup and compendium.
The fleet tooling is covered in more depth on our Enterprise page.
Works with the systems you already run
Rooms, reservations and guest names flow through from your property management system automatically, and our team works with you on connecting hotel-specific systems during rollout.
- Cloudbeds
- Channex
- Guesty
- Hostaway
- Hospitable
- Lodgify
- OwnerRez
- Streamline VRS
- Smoobu
- Hostfully
- Uplisting
- Zeevou
- Resly
- Planyo
- iGMS
- + Partner API
Want your own branding on every screen instead of ours? The entire experience is available white-label. Comparing us with an incumbent quote? See how Better Hotel stacks up against Enseo and SONIFI.
Better Hotel FAQ
Do we need to replace our TVs or cabling?
No. Better Hotel runs from a small device in the HDMI port of the TVs you already have, over your existing network. There is no headend, no coax work and no requirement for hospitality-mode TVs. Android TV and Google TV sets can run the app directly.
How does it scale to a large property?
Devices are provisioned once and then managed entirely remotely. One dashboard covers every room across every property, with over-the-air updates, per-room configuration and live health for the whole fleet, whether that is 50 rooms or 5,000.
Will every guest see every room's TV in their AirPlay or Cast list?
Not if you set casting to QR. Each TV stays hidden until a guest scans the code on that screen, and then only their phone can cast to it. Access ends when the stay does. You can also switch AirPlay or Cast off entirely, per room, floor or property. This needs no network segregation project.
Can guests cast and stream from their own accounts safely?
Yes. Guests sign in with their own accounts or cast from their own phones, and at check-out the TV can sign out of the streaming apps and clear what the guest left behind, so the next arrival never sees the previous guest's accounts.
What happens when a guest loses the remote?
They scan the QR code on the TV and their phone becomes the remote, in the browser, with nothing to install. It only works on the room's WiFi and each stay gets its own link, so it is as private as the physical remote and a lot harder to lose.
What does it cost compared with a legacy refresh?
A fraction. Because there is no headend, no proprietary hardware and no installation crew, the per-room cost is a small fraction of a traditional hospitality TV rollout, and the marketing features mean the screens can pay for themselves.
Let’s price up your property
Tell us how many rooms you run and what system you have today, and we’ll come back with a rollout plan and a per-room cost that will look nothing like the incumbent quotes.