, our latest app for authoring and managing content and players.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to upload and manage content using BrightAuthor:connected, allowing you to publish presentations that contain images, video, audio, and HTML pages.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a simple presentation, and publish it to your BrightSign player.

This tutorial explains how to use BrightAuthor:connected to build a multizone presentation, where specified regions of the screen display various types of content simultaneously.

This tutorial explains how to schedule and publish a presentation to your BrightSign player.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to generate both static and live text, make and format a ticker zone, add text to the zone, and make live updates to the ticker text while a presentation is running.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to add and format the date and time in two separate clock zones within a multi-zone presentation using BrightAuthor:connected.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use BrightAuthor:connected to add a PNG image with transparent areas to a multizone presentation.

With BrightAuthor:connected, you can make HTML5 presentations to display websites, utilize touch gestures (like swiping), use JavaScript, and update text. In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a presentation using an HTML5 webpage and publish it directly to your BrightSign player. Then we’ll switch over to BSN.cloud to see how to host HTML sites remotely both on a web server and via BSN.cloud.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make an audio zone that includes a playlist of audio tracks, as well as a dynamic playlist that can be updated live. You’ll also learn how to mute the audio coming from the video zones.

This video describes how video sync works in BrightAuthor:connected. 

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to add HDMI content, even HDCP content, to a video zone using the Video-In widget.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to stream content to your presentation using BrightAuthor:connected.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to add interactive touch functionally to the multi-zone presentation using zone message events and zone message commands.

Player Management

Presentations

This is our legacy cloud platform. Our latest cloud platform is BSN.Cloud which consists of the free bsn.Control and the paid bsn.Content tiers. Development of BSN has largely ceased and will eventually be deprecated and replaced with BSN.Cloud.

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 BrightAuthor:connected, our latest app.

BrightAuthor_Classic

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

BrightAuthorconnected

The BSN.Cloud record of a player and its Setup. The Default Setup is assigned to the player unless another Setup has been explicitly set.

Provision_Record

The process where a Setup is delivered and applied to a player by BSN.Cloud.

Provision

A set of files containing player settings (player name, description, time zone, Publishing Mode, network settings, etc.) and an autorun.brs file which instructs the player what to do upon bootup.

Setup

Publishing

How-tos

Player Setup

Interactivity

Partner CMS

Video Guides

Add Plugins to Presentations

Add Node.js to Presentations

Authenticate in BSN.Cloud

Create a BSN.Cloud Account & Network

Standard (Linked / Sync'd) Videowalls

Bezel Compensation for Video Walls

Create a VideoWall

Create GPIO Input

Create Image Transitions

Display a Direct View LED Presentation

Display YouTube Videos

Edit Network Settings

Pause / Resume a Video

Recover an Account/Login

Send a Serial Command on Receiving a UDP Message

Send Hex Commands

Set GPIO Outputs On/Off

Sleep / Wake a Display

Switch Presentations

Sync Zones (latest)

Sync Zones (old)

Sync Zones

Use GPIO on Players

Use the Local Web Server

BrightAuthor:connected

Blank or Black Screen

Connect the GPIO

Connect Players & Servers via VPN

Decode Four HD Videos at Once

Decommission a Player

Disable External Storage

Display Media with MPCDI

Factory Reset a Player

Find a Player's IP Address

Fix DUID Errors

Format a microSD Card

Get Player / DWS Logs

Interpret Flashing LEDs

Interpret Autorun Logs

Move Players to a New Network

Non-Latin Characters

Packet Capture (PCAP)

Player Repair or Replacement

Player Upgrade Factors

Portrait Presentations

Run a Network Test

Reboot via the DWS

Schedule Reboots

Send Non-Printable Keys

Set Time & Time Zone

Set Up Wi-Fi

Stop a Continuously Rebooting Player

Stream Content via IP Camera

Troubleshoot your BrightSign Built-in Player

Update the Player OS

Upgrade to Chromium 110/120

Use Serial / UDP commands

Use USB Button Panels

Players

Add Digital Certificates

Add GitHub Plugins

Apply a Custom Resolution

Automate Browser Testing with Selenium

Convert Videos to Compatible Formats

Create / Install an autorun.zip

Customize Network Streaming

Decode AC3 Data on Older Players

Display a Google Calendar

Display an Excel File

Enable PTP

Encode Final Cut MOV Files for TSMuxer

Evaluate OS & Software Releases

Fix Expired CA Certificates

Get Optimal 4K Image Quality

Inherited Players

Manage Subscriptions

Migrate from BSN.com to BSN.Cloud

Migrate Local Setups from BrightAuthor Classic to BrightAuthor:connected/BSN.Cloud