 state allows you to display media from an MRSS feed (or text from an RSS feed in Ticker zones). An MRSS feed can be hosted on a third-party server or your BrightSign Author Plus network (using the 

 feature). MRSS feeds can be used to play image, video, audio, and HTML (different content types can be mixed into a single feed).

: The user-selected name of the Live Feed state

: Select this to make this state the home screen

This section lets you specify the feed source:

: Populate the Live Feed state from a remote URL.

 from your BrightSign Author Plus library.

 Click on this to ensure that your link is valid

This section lets you modify other options associated with the feed:

: Specify how often the player should refresh the contents of the feed.

: Select a feed parser to parse the feed data before it is passed to the Live Feed state.

: Check this box to have the player make an HTTP HEAD request before retrieving the contents of a feed. See 

Automatically generate User Variables from Data Feed:

 Use the feed to populate a set of User Variables for HTML pages. See 

This section lets you store important information about the Live Feed state for future users. It can be modified at any time.

This section lets you add commands to your presentation to extend its functionality. See 

 widget onto your canvas. You'll notice a red dot, which indicates that there's information you need to fill out in the 

Find an RSS Feed on the internet or use your own live feed (add it under the 

, specify the update interval, how often to refresh the content, and a parser plugin if you want to parse the information coming from that feed.

Connect these states using regular events as shown the image below.

Image State

Live Feed State

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

Live Text State

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