BSN.Cloud FAQs

how to recover my username and/or password? username your bsn cloud username is your email address if you are using plus addressing to create a different email address that goes to the same inbox, be aware that each username is different to the system check your email for messages from bsn cloud (the sender will be noreply brightsign\@brightsign biz mailto\ noreply brightsign\@brightsign biz ) and check the to field for the correct username password in brightsign author, select connect to bsn cloud on the upper right in the sign in window, select forgot password enter your email address and submit an email should arrive shortly from noreply brightsign\@brightsign biz mailto\ noreply brightsign\@brightsign biz with a link to reset your password, so be sure to add that email address to your whitelist or contact list to ensure it does not go into spam/junk/quarantine can't connect because of cert validation error during tls handshake this sort of error typically occurs during player registration (it doesn’t happen later because the rule either exists or not, so if there is something wrong the player fails immediately) if this happens, you will see a purple screen with a 60 error code you should then access the dws, inspect the system log to find the entries that have the 60 error code, and look for the related certificate validation errors these errors are usually either complaints that the certificate is self signed, or indications that the certificate is issued to a different host in both cases, the reason for the error is an intermediate server which acts as a man in the middle between the player and the brightsign cloud this server replaces the bsn cloud server certificate with its own in order to inspect the encrypted tls traffic if you do not want the traffic to be inspected, find the intermediate server and configure it to pass through encrypted traffic to all bsn cloud services referenced on this page docid 6mbtfgmpjwocqomvc0oe5 without inspection if traffic inspection is necessary, contact the support team (support\@brightsign biz) and provide the information to create a new certificate based on your intermediate server certificate to register all the players connecting through that traffic inspector as trusted my player status is red the player status will be red if it is not connected to brightsign cloud check the following to establish or restore your connection is your player powered on? is the player physically connected to your network? for example, is the ethernet cable plugged in and are the ethernet leds blinking as expected? check your player connectivity can it reach the internet, and can it access these ports and urls docid 6mbtfgmpjwocqomvc0oe5 ? check this through your local diagnostic web server (dws) docid\ qxt4yhey7iej m9dh73wm if the local dws was not enabled on your player, follow the steps in dws local access docid\ iafcherljfjdjtwttkpk5 to enable it and/or access it through a web browser on a local network in the local dws, open the diagnostics tab and check network configuration > view network diagnostics > run diagnostics you can also use the log tab to troubleshoot problems, though logs are only available a few minutes after your player comes online players with a red status cannot be accessed through the remote dws why am i asked to reset my password despite logging in with sso? bsn cloud offers both sso docid\ fnxkrji357pe2yhwyas7i and legacy authentication (which is available for backwards compatibility), so users can have multiple available authentication methods if you see the error message below, your account has a legacy authentication method unrelated to sso since all stored passwords have an expiration period, you are being prompted to change the password for that legacy authentication method if you don’t use these legacy credentials then you can just delete them after changing the password