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title: Live Feed State
slug: author/live-feed-state
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createdAt: 2025-03-11T06:56:11.035Z
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The **Live Feed** 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 **Live Media** feature). MRSS feeds can be used to play image, video, audio, and HTML (different content types can be mixed into a single feed).

# State Properties

- **Name**: The user-selected name of the Live Feed state
- **Initial State**: Select this to make this state the home screen

## Source

This section lets you specify the feed source:

- **URL**: Populate the Live Feed state from a remote URL.
- **Live Media Feed**: Populate the Live Feed state using [Live Media Feeds](docId\:gPjwF1LNjhau_EQZJMfUq) from your BrightSign Author Plus library.
- **Validate:** Click on this to ensure that your link is valid

## Feed Configuration

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

- **Update Interval**: Specify how often the player should refresh the contents of the feed.
- **Parser Plugin**: Select a feed parser to parse the feed data before it is passed to the Live Feed state.
- **Optimize Feed Updates (use HEAD calls)**: Check this box to have the player make an HTTP HEAD request before retrieving the contents of a feed. See [Data Feeds](docId\:a6Ali6u-szxHuansk6T3-) for more details.
- **Automatically generate User Variables from Data Feed:** Use the feed to populate a set of User Variables for HTML pages. See [Data Feeds](docId\:a6Ali6u-szxHuansk6T3-) for more details.

## Notes

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

## Advanced

This section lets you add commands to your presentation to extend its functionality. See [Commands & Conditional Targets](docId\:az1YTDtEYH-Zp2Dbg_lBL) for more information.

# Using a Live Feed State

To add a Live Feed to your presentation:

1. Drag the **Live** **Feed** widget onto your canvas. You'll notice a red dot, which indicates that there's information you need to fill out in the **State** **Properties**.
2. Fill out the **Name** and **Initial State** fields under **State** **Properties**.
3. Find an RSS Feed on the internet or use your own live feed (add it under the **Content** tab in **New** **Component** **> Live Media Feed**), and enter it in the **Source** panel.
4. Under **Feed** **Configuration**, 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.
5. Connect these states using regular events as shown the image below.

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