Schedule

the brightsign author schedule tab allows you to schedule presentations according to time, date, and day of the week and then publish those presentations to your brightsign players through bsn cloud this section has an accompanying tutorial video select the publishing mode use the destination > type dropdown list to select one of the following publishing modes bsn cloud, standalone, local network, or web folder your players must be configured for the specified publishing type during player setup docid\ xnnxywmv09iegziit7rwa before you publish to them the bsn cloud option for destination type is only available if the content mode docid 8ythtvfoe83v1sssbyiw is set to bsn cloud the other publishing modes (standalone, local network, and web folder) require the content mode be set to local bsn cloud distribute your schedule to any number of players over the internet using bsn cloud select the target bsn cloud group for the schedule standalone publish your schedule to a microsd card or usb flash drive you can also publish to a folder on your computer and copy the files to a storage device later on local network local network is called local file networking in version 1 13 0 and older of brightsign author publish your schedule to a player over the local network add player click the plus icon to add a player to the local network list the player must be on your local network and set up for local file networking first you will be prompted to enter the ip address of the device refresh click the refresh icon to refresh the list of networked players (e g if a networked player has just booted up and you don't see it in the list yet) player list use the checkboxes to select which player(s) on the local network you want to publish to device credentials click the settings icon (the cog wheel) to enter the local web server credentials for the player if you have set up the player using the same instance of brightsign author , you should not have to enter the password if the password changes, or you are using a new brightsign author instance, you'll need to enter the local web server credentials again delete player click the delete icon (trash can) to remove the player from the local network list this action will delete the player record from the brightsign author instance, but the local web server on the player remains active you can add the player to the list again using the plus icon web folder web folder is called simple file networking in version 1 13 0 and older of brightsign author publish your schedule to a web server directory players that are set up for web folder can then retrieve the scheduled presentations from the defined web folder url add presentations to the schedule drag one or more presentations from the source pane to the schedule area in the center the recent presentations tab provides a list of recently edited presentations if you are publishing using bsn cloud, the bsn cloud tab lists all presentations saved on your brightsign cloud network if you are publishing using another method, click the open icon to locate a folder containing presentation files on your local computer click the edit icon (pencil icon) next to a presentation name if you need to edit the presentation before publishing the schedule image 20241217 215436 png edit the schedule once you've added your presentation(s) to the schedule, select a presentation in the schedule area or the presentation pane on the right to open the schedule pane the schedule pane allows you to specify the date and time that a presentation plays active all day, every day the presentation plays at all times (i e without day parting) event date and time the presentation plays once at the specified date and time event date specify the date that the presentation plays event time specify the time interval during which the presentation plays you can also drag the top and bottom of the presentation block in the schedule area recurring event the presentation recurs during the specified days if you don't check this box, the event time will only apply to the single day selected in the schedule all days the presentation plays every day between the specified start date and end date at the specified event time the start date defaults to the currently selected date in the schedule weekends the presentation plays only on weekends between the specified start date and end date at the specified event time the start date defaults to the currently selected date in the schedule weekdays the presentation plays only on weekdays between the specified start date and end date at the specified event time the start date defaults to the currently selected date in the schedule custom select a custom date and time use the checkboxes to select which days of the week the presentation will play and the following additional parameters start date specify the start date of the scheduled recurrence end date specify the end date of the scheduled recurrence event time specify the time interval during which the presentation plays interrupt other presentations designate the presentation as the schedule interrupt presentation (see below) schedule interrupts if you add one presentation to the same time slot as another presentation, the added presentation will function as a schedule interrupt presentation these presentations can occupy the same time slot as other presentations and will play instead of those presentations schedule interrupt presentations are useful when you need to add a new presentation to a regular, recurring schedule that you don't wish to alter permanently a schedule interrupt presentation is indicated with the interrupt icon (shown in the image below) you can switch the schedule interrupt designation from one presentation to another using the interrupt other presentations checkbox image 20241217 215804 png publishing options use the options pane to specify additional publishing options device setup click the create setup box to go to the setup docid\ xnnxywmv09iegziit7rwa screen this feature allows the user to publish new player settings to players including brightsignos updates docid\ xnnxywmv09iegziit7rwa debugging enable or disable the following debugging options these debugging options are disabled by default enable serial debugging the autorun script will output debugging information related to the presentation to the serial port (as well as over telnet and ssh if these features are enabled) enable system log debugging the autorun script will output debugging information related to the presentation to the log tab in the diagnostic web server (dws) docid\ xue20rjxhft lq0rdmjbw brightsignos update this section allows you to select either latest released os , beta os , or minimum os that is compatible with your player when you select publish , the os will be sent to the player for installation, during which the player will reboot do not update is the default setting