BrightSign players run on a highly efficient, embedded system specifically designed for connectivity and the processing of media files. Our players are purpose-built from the ground up for digital signage!

The BrightSign operating system (BrightSignOS or BOS) is an open-source Linux-based OS based on the Yocto and OpenEmbedded projects. It includes substantial BrightSign modifications that include a read-only root filesystem in flash memory, a Chromium rendering engine, and additional components for audio/video processing and security.

Thanks to the built-in Chromium engine, BrightSign players are able to run any HTML/JavaScript application.

BrightSign players are highly specialized and although they are based on a Linux OS, they are 

 general-purpose Linux PCs. They cannot run Linux apps nor are they capable of running apps for Android, iOS, or Windows. However, if you have a native Android, iOS, or Windows app, we may be able to help you leverage your existing code to run natively on our players.

Some of BrightSign’s software components are open source, and the open source code is freely available on BrightSign’s website. See 

Note that the term “firmware” is occasionally used in BrightSign’s documentation. “Firmware” refers to BrightSignOS.

BrightSign players are compact, highly-efficient, and, because they’re fan-less, virtually silent. Performance is maximized by running all video decoding and encoding through dedicated hardware.

With an efficient heat-dissipating enclosure and no moving parts that can break down, BrightSign players are extremely reliable even when they're running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Indeed, the reliability and longevity of BrightSign players are widely viewed as unmatched in the industry.

You can learn more about the current BrightSign hardware lineup 

BrightSign Players

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Provisioning & Recovery

Player Setup/Provisioning

Autorun Files

Content Sources

Preparations

Copy to Player

Considerations

Example (Manual Setup)

bsn.Control Integration

App URL

Example (App URL)

Developer Tools

Developer Setup

Partner Resources

Onboarding

Integrating with BrightSign

Technical Best Practices

Operational Best Practices

BrightSign / Partner Responsibilities

Writing Support Tickets

Staying Updated

Support

Partner Glossary

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.