Here you will find the user guides to our various software and services.

Although similarly named, BrightAuthor:connected is different from BrightAuthor Classic, our legacy app. Development of BrightAuthor Classic has largely ceased, and the app will eventually be deprecated and replaced with BrightAuthor:connected.

Our legacy app for authoring and management of players and content.

Our legacy cloud platform for player and content management.

Control and update your menu from your phone.

View and control interactive digital signs with your mobile phone. 

User Guides

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

Languages

Network Status

Dashboard and Menus

Undocking Panels

Tagging

Content

BP900/BP200 Event

GPIO  Event

Keyboard Event

Link Zones Event

Media End Event

Media List End Event

Plugin Message Event

Remote Input Event

Serial Input Event

Synchronize Event

Time/Clock Event

Timeout Event

Touch Event

UDP Event

USB Event

User Event

Video & Audio Time Code Event

Zone Message Event

Event Properties

Zones

Set Panel Output

Set Audio

Connector Volume

Zone Volume

Send

Link

GPIO

Video

BrightControl

Other

Commands & Conditional Targets

Presentation Settings

Tree View

Audio State

Dynamic Playlist State

Event Handler State

HTML5 State

Image State

Live Feed State

Live Text State

Local Playlist State

Media List State

On Demand State

Stream State

Super  State

User Variable State

Video In State

Video State

State Properties

Presentation

Schedule

Network

Users

Roles

Network Options

USB Drive Passwords

Setup Library

Activate

Subscriptions

Preferences

Admin

Unsupported Features

BrightAuthor:connected

Prerequisites

bsn.Control

Getting Started with bsn.Content

Managing Content

Creating a Presentation

Scheduling and Publishing

bsn.Content

System Roles

Custom Roles

Object Permissions

System Roles and Permissions

Cloud Data Limits

BSN.Cloud

Using Zipit

Connect Your Modem

Activate Your Modem

Supported Countries

BrightSign Mobile FAQs

View Signal Strength

Data Plans

BrightSign Mobile

Requirements

Getting Started

Set Up Players

Create Presentations

Edit Zones

Create Playlists & Feeds

Presentation States

Interactive Events

BrightWall Presentations

Publish Presentations

Exporting Presentations

Presentation Properties

Editing Preferences

Advanced Features

Managing Your Network

BrightAuthor Classic

Account Customization

BSN Device Setup

BSN Tagging

Create Tab

Current Usage Tab

Edit Tab

Groups Tab

Library Tab

New Network Setup

User Account Roles

BrightSign Network (BSN)

BrightMenu

BrightLink

Legacy User Guides