Due to the continuous usage many players experience, BrightSign-qualified microSD cards are recommended (more info 

If multiple storage devices are attached, the player will use the first storage device it finds based on the following order:

microSD cards should be formatted as exFAT (recommended) or FAT32. This can be done using the DiskUtility app on a Mac or File Explorer on Windows (right-click on the drive representing the card and click “Format…”). The exFAT format is preferred as it avoids the 4GB filesize limit of the FAT32 filesystem. Cards 2GB or smaller will be FAT12 (aka “FAT”) and subject to its 2GB file size limit.

Player Storage

Core Elements

Content Management

BSN.Cloud

Player Setup (Provisioning)

Publishing Modes

Player Management

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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.