, our latest app for authoring and managing content and players. For the legacy 

LED walls are comprised of modules which can be rearranged in multiple ways. The final arrangement usually doesn’t correspond to a standard display resolution, so you will probably need to make some adjustments to get the desired resolution. To do this in BrightSign Author, set a zone to the correct resolution, then configure your controller to scale standard resolutions from the player or apply a custom resolution to the player through a plugin. These methods are described below.

Select a standard resolution and then create custom zone size that matches your output resolution. This will give you better image quality and a better representation of your content.

Determine the LED wall dimensions and the number of HDMI outputs on your player.

 tab, select the number of screens based on the number of player HDMI outputs and how you want to display the content.

 that is equal to or larger than the desired display resolution.

 tab and set the pixel size and dimensions of the zone to correspond to the number of pixels and dimensions in your display. The size cannot exceed the maximum resolution for the player. See the example below.

This is a layout for an LED wall that is 12064 pixels wide and 1872 pixels high. The BrightSign player has three 4K HDMI outputs, so this layout uses three screens.

To scale resolutions in your controller, see the customer literature and/or videos for that product (e.g., Novastar, Samsung, etc.). Note that there are a range of models which have different maximum output resolutions (for example, some take full HD input, and some take 4K input). You can use a custom resolution or use regular resolutions with custom zone sizes (higher end controllers support this, lower end controllers may not).

To set a custom video mode in your BrightSign player:

Get the relevant modeline. This is a list of parameters that describe how a display should be driven at a specified resolution. See 

 for information about how to get a modeline in Linux or in BrightSign Author.

Add that modeline information to a BrightSign plugin. See 

 and the plugin example below for more information.

) that are similar the resolution you want.

 to match your desired resolution, which must be less than 8K (see Image 2, below).

, add the plugin that specifies the correct modeline.

Add your content to the zone and publish your presentation.

Create Image Transitions

Display a Direct View LED Presentation

This is our legacy cloud platform. Our latest cloud platform is BrightSign Cloud, aka BSN.Cloud. Development of BSN has largely ceased and will eventually be deprecated.

BrightSign_Network_BSN

BrightSign’s *legacy* app for authoring and managing players. The app's actual name is BrightAuthor but is referred to as BrightAuthor Classic to lessen confusion with BrightSign Author, our latest app.

BrightAuthor_Classic

BrightSign’s latest free, all-in-one app for player setup / management, authoring, and content management.

BrightAuthorconnected

BrightSign's record of a player and its Setup File. The Default Setup File is assigned to the player unless another Setup File has been explicitly set.

Provision_Record

The process where a player is registered with BrightSign and a Setup File is assigned to the player.

Provision

Display a Google Calendar

Author

Languages

Network Status

BrightSign Cloud Status

Dashboard and Menus

Undocking Panels

Tagging

Content

Creating a Presentation

Event Properties

Zones

Commands & Conditional Targets

Presentation Settings

State Properties

Presentation

Schedule

Network