Partners are highly encouraged to take advantage of the free, yet powerful, tools offered by bsn.Control. The two most common ways for partners to utilize bsn.Control are:

One of the easiest ways for a partner to get up and running is with the “Swivel Chair” approach. With this method, end users utilize bsn.Control 

With this approach, end users have full access to the capabilities of the bsn.Control via the unbranded web interface at control.bsn.cloud. By having one browser tab for the CMS and another browser tab for bsn.Control, users can quickly “swivel” back and forth between the CMS and bsn.Control.

Using BrightSign’s APIs, partners are able to design their own custom user interfaces to access the underlying functions of the bsn.Control. End users will then interact with a single UI for authoring, publishing, content management, and player management.

Next, let’s take a look at one of the ways the bsn.Control can used to remotely provision players.

bsn.Control Integration

App URL

Example (App URL)

Developer Tools

Developer Setup

Partner Resources

Onboarding

Integrating with BrightSign

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.