A Timer in digital signage is a time-based trigger that fires an action at a specific moment, after an interval, on a recurring schedule, or as a countdown. Timers are the simplest and most reliable category of triggers in a signage automation system: campaigns that start and end on date, scenes that activate at certain times of day, countdowns to events, and looping behaviors that depend on elapsed time.

In Livesignage, timers are first-class triggers in the Flow engine. A timer can launch a Live Scenario across a group of displays, switch a playlist, activate or deactivate a slide, trigger a notification, or pair with an external data event for hybrid time + data conditions. The combination of timers and Flow turns signage from a manually managed channel into a self-running operational system.