diff --git a/brightsign/st-bridge.js b/brightsign/st-bridge.js
index c872075..e9659af 100644
--- a/brightsign/st-bridge.js
+++ b/brightsign/st-bridge.js
@@ -669,6 +669,89 @@
      * DWS writes the full capture to disk before returning a thumbnail), the caller gets a reason
      * it can show instead of a spinner that never resolves.
      */
+    /*
+     * Capture the screen using BrightSign's OWN screenshot API — the composite of the video and
+     * graphics layers, which is the whole point: an in-page canvas cannot read the hardware video
+     * plane, so a DOM composite returns a frame with the content missing.
+     *
+     * Entirely page-side, and that is what makes it work here. The obvious route was to ask the
+     * host (BrightScript) to capture via the player's DWS, but page->host messaging is dead after
+     * load on this platform, so the request never arrived. `@brightsign/screenshot` needs no host,
+     * no DWS, no messageport — just the Node `require` the widget already has (the same one that
+     * makes `module` visible to classic scripts).
+     *
+     * The API writes a FILE rather than returning bytes, so it is read straight back with Node's
+     * fs — available for exactly the same reason require() is.
+     */
+    captureScreen: function (opts) {
+      var o = opts || {};
+      return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
+        var ScreenshotClass = tryRequire('@brightsign/screenshot');
+        var fs = tryRequire('fs');
+        if (!ScreenshotClass) { reject(new Error('no @brightsign/screenshot module')); return; }
+        if (!fs) { reject(new Error('no fs module')); return; }
+
+        // RAM FIRST, deliberately. The remote-control view drives this once a second, and a
+        // screenshot per second written to the boot flash is a wear-out mechanism with no upside —
+        // the file is read back and deleted microseconds later, so it never needs to be durable.
+        // BrightSign exposes tmp as a RAM volume alongside the storage ones. Real storage is only
+        // a fallback for a unit that does not present tmp, and the directory must already exist or
+        // the capture fails, so each candidate is checked rather than assumed.
+        var dirs = ['/storage/tmp', '/tmp', '/storage/ssd', '/storage/usb1', '/storage/sd', '/storage/flash'];
+        var dir = null;
+        for (var i = 0; i < dirs.length; i++) {
+          try { if (fs.existsSync(dirs[i])) { dir = dirs[i]; break; } } catch (e) { /* keep looking */ }
+        }
+        if (!dir) { reject(new Error('no writable volume for the capture')); return; }
+
+        var path = dir + '/st-capture.jpg';
+        try { fs.unlinkSync(path); } catch (e) { /* first run, or already gone */ }
+
+        var params = {
+          destinationFileName: path,
+          fileName: path,                 // deprecated alias, still honoured on older firmware
+          fileType: 'JPEG',
+          width: o.width || 960,
+          height: o.height || 540,
+          quality: o.quality || 70,
+          rotation: 0,
+        };
+
+        var shot;
+        try { shot = new ScreenshotClass(); } catch (e) { reject(new Error('screenshot object: ' + e.message)); return; }
+
+        try {
+          // syncCapture may interrupt on-screen operations, which the docs flag as a debugging
+          // trait — but it guarantees the file exists when it returns, and an operator asking for
+          // one screenshot is worth a single frame of interruption. The stream path uses async.
+          if (o.async && typeof shot.asyncCapture === 'function') shot.asyncCapture(params);
+          else if (typeof shot.syncCapture === 'function') shot.syncCapture(params);
+          else if (typeof shot.asyncCapture === 'function') shot.asyncCapture(params);
+          else { reject(new Error('screenshot object exposes neither capture method')); return; }
+        } catch (e) { reject(new Error('capture failed: ' + e.message)); return; }
+
+        // Poll for the file rather than trusting a return value: sync and async differ, and the
+        // documented contract is "a file appears", not "a promise settles".
+        var waited = 0;
+        var tick = function () {
+          var st = null;
+          try { st = fs.statSync(path); } catch (e) { st = null; }
+          if (st && st.size > 512) {
+            var b64;
+            try { b64 = fs.readFileSync(path).toString('base64'); }
+            catch (e) { reject(new Error('could not read the capture: ' + e.message)); return; }
+            try { fs.unlinkSync(path); } catch (e) { /* best-effort: never let cleanup fail a good capture */ }
+            resolve('data:image/jpeg;base64,' + b64);
+            return;
+          }
+          waited += 150;
+          if (waited > (o.timeoutMs || 8000)) { reject(new Error('capture produced no file in ' + waited + 'ms')); return; }
+          global.setTimeout(tick, 150);
+        };
+        global.setTimeout(tick, 150);
+      });
+    },
+
     requestSnapshot: function (opts) {
       var o = opts || {};
       return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
diff --git a/server/player/index.html b/server/player/index.html
index a695560..edd56cc 100644
--- a/server/player/index.html
+++ b/server/player/index.html
@@ -4001,6 +4001,34 @@
       // Falls through to the canvas path on ANY failure (no host, no primary storage, timeout):
       // a partial screenshot showing images and widgets beats none, and the probe makes the
       // video's absence explicit rather than silent.
+      // BrightSign's OWN capture API first: it composites the video and graphics layers, which is
+      // the one thing this player cannot do for itself — a canvas cannot read the hardware video
+      // plane, so a DOM composite comes back with the content missing. It needs no host bridge at
+      // all, which is what makes it work where the host route does not: page->host messaging is
+      // dead after load on that platform, so a request relayed through BrightScript never arrives.
+      if (BS && typeof BS.captureScreen === 'function') {
+        BS.captureScreen({ width: 960, height: 540 })
+          .then((dataUrl) => {
+            const base64 = String(dataUrl).split(',')[1];
+            if (base64 && base64.length > 100) {
+              socket.emit('device:screenshot', { device_id: config.deviceId, image_b64: base64 });
+              console.log('[bs] native screenshot sent:', base64.length, 'chars');
+            } else { captureAndSendCanvas(); }
+          })
+          .catch((err) => {
+            console.warn('[bs] native capture unavailable (' + err.message + ') — trying the host');
+            hostSnapshotOrCanvas();
+          });
+        return;
+      }
+
+      hostSnapshotOrCanvas();
+    }
+
+    // The older route: ask the HOST to capture through the player's DWS. Kept as a fallback for
+    // firmware where the native module is absent, though on the hardware this was debugged against
+    // the request never reaches the host at all.
+    function hostSnapshotOrCanvas() {
       if (BS && typeof BS.requestSnapshot === 'function' && BS.hasHost()) {
         BS.requestSnapshot({ width: 960, height: 540 })
           .then((dataUrl) => {
diff --git a/server/test/brightsign-native-capture.test.js b/server/test/brightsign-native-capture.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f38eb2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/test/brightsign-native-capture.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+'use strict';
+
+/*
+ * A BrightSign now photographs itself with BrightSign's own API, and these tests pin the parts of
+ * that which are easy to undo by accident.
+ *
+ * The player could never capture its own screen: video decodes onto a hardware plane the DOM
+ * cannot read, so a canvas composite comes back with the content missing — the panel reported
+ * "Video is playing on the hardware plane and cannot be captured" while playing perfectly.
+ *
+ * The long way round was to ask the HOST to capture through the player's DWS. That route is a dead
+ * end on this hardware: page->host messaging stops working after page load, so the request never
+ * arrives. `@brightsign/screenshot` composites the video and graphics layers and needs no host at
+ * all — which is precisely why it works. It is reached through the same Node `require` that the
+ * widget already exposes (the one that also makes `module` visible to classic scripts, which is
+ * what broke the shared UMD modules on this platform).
+ */
+const { test } = require('node:test');
+const assert = require('node:assert/strict');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+
+const ROOT = path.join(__dirname, '..', '..');
+const read = (p) => fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT, p), 'utf8');
+const BRIDGE = read('brightsign/st-bridge.js');
+const PLAYER = read('server/player/index.html');
+
+test('#BS-capture: the bridge uses BrightSign\'s own screenshot API', () => {
+  assert.match(BRIDGE, /captureScreen:\s*function/, 'the bridge must expose captureScreen');
+  assert.match(BRIDGE, /tryRequire\('@brightsign\/screenshot'\)/, 'must load the native module');
+  // Both capture methods are documented; either is acceptable, but one must be called.
+  assert.match(BRIDGE, /syncCapture|asyncCapture/);
+});
+
+test('#BS-capture: it writes to RAM, not to the boot flash', () => {
+  // The remote-control view drives this once a second. A screenshot per second written to flash is
+  // a wear-out mechanism with no upside — the file is read back and deleted immediately, so it
+  // never needs to be durable.
+  const block = BRIDGE.slice(BRIDGE.indexOf('captureScreen:'), BRIDGE.indexOf('requestSnapshot:'));
+  const dirs = block.match(/var dirs = \[([^\]]+)\]/);
+  assert.ok(dirs, 'candidate directories not found');
+  const list = dirs[1].split(',').map((d) => d.trim().replace(/'/g, ''));
+  assert.ok(/tmp/.test(list[0]), `RAM must be tried first, got ${list[0]}`);
+  assert.ok(list.some((d) => /flash/.test(d)), 'real storage should still be a fallback');
+  assert.ok(list.indexOf(list.find((d) => /flash/.test(d))) > 0, 'flash must never be the first choice');
+});
+
+test('#BS-capture: the temp file is removed after it is read', () => {
+  const block = BRIDGE.slice(BRIDGE.indexOf('captureScreen:'), BRIDGE.indexOf('requestSnapshot:'));
+  assert.match(block, /unlinkSync/, 'a capture per second must not accumulate files');
+  assert.match(block, /toString\('base64'\)/, 'the bytes must come back as base64 for the socket');
+});
+
+test('#BS-capture: a missing module or file fails cleanly rather than hanging', () => {
+  const block = BRIDGE.slice(BRIDGE.indexOf('captureScreen:'), BRIDGE.indexOf('requestSnapshot:'));
+  assert.match(block, /no @brightsign\/screenshot module/, 'absent module must reject, not throw');
+  assert.match(block, /no fs module/);
+  assert.match(block, /timeoutMs/, 'the file poll must be bounded — a capture that never lands cannot wedge the player');
+});
+
+test('#BS-capture: the player tries the native API BEFORE the host route', () => {
+  // Order is the whole fix. The host route is a dead end on this hardware, so trying it first
+  // would spend the operator's patience on a 15s timeout before reaching the path that works.
+  const nativeAt = PLAYER.indexOf('BS.captureScreen');
+  const hostAt = PLAYER.indexOf('BS.requestSnapshot');
+  assert.ok(nativeAt > 0, 'the player must call captureScreen');
+  assert.ok(hostAt > 0, 'the host route should remain as a fallback');
+  assert.ok(nativeAt < hostAt, 'native capture must be attempted first');
+});
+
+test('#BS-capture: a native failure still falls back, never blanks', () => {
+  const seg = PLAYER.slice(PLAYER.indexOf('BS.captureScreen'), PLAYER.indexOf('function captureAndSendCanvas'));
+  assert.match(seg, /\.catch\(/, 'a rejected capture must be handled');
+  assert.match(seg, /hostSnapshotOrCanvas\(\)/, 'and fall through to the older routes');
+  assert.match(seg, /captureAndSendCanvas\(\)/, 'an empty result must still produce something');
+});
+
+test('#BS-capture: remote streaming inherits it — one capture path, not two', () => {
+  // startStreaming drives captureAndSend on a timer, so whatever the screenshot button gets, the
+  // live view gets. A second capture path would be a second, subtly different feature.
+  assert.match(PLAYER, /streamTimer = setInterval\(captureAndSend, 1000\)/);
+});