Welcome to the BrightSign Partner Packet! This document serves as an introductory guide for the integration of partner Content Management Systems (CMS) with the BrightSign ecosystem which includes BrightSign’s extensive array of digital signage players as well as a rich set of player management services.

CMS partners are able to build applications that allow their customers to set up, publish to, and manage BrightSign players. BrightSign’s development technologies, including our open APIs, enable seamless partner integrations.

We offer services and support from multiple worldwide locations, and our Partner Integration, Business Development, and Marketing teams are dedicated to helping our partners every step of the way from initial inquiries and on-boarding to market launch.

BrightSign’s products and services are highly differentiated and function in unique ways. If you are new to BrightSign, it is 

 section which provides a quick, high-level overview of how our products and services work.

For partners who already have a good understanding of how our players and services function, let’s get started!

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Partners

BrightSign Partner Packet

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

BrightSign Players

Provisioning & Recovery

Player Setup/Provisioning

Autorun Files

Content Sources