The Live Feed state allows you to display media from an MRSS feed (or text from an RSS feed in Ticker zones). An MRSS feed can be hosted on a third-party server or your BSN Content Cloud network (using the Live Media feature). MRSS feeds can be used to play image, video, audio, and HTML (different content types can be mixed into a single feed).

: The user-selected name of the Live Feed state

: Select this to make this state the home screen

This section lets you specify the feed source:

: Populate the Live Feed state from a remote URL.

 Click on this to ensure that your link is valid

This section lets you modify other options associated with the feed:

: Specify how often the player should refresh the contents of the feed.

: Select a feed parser to parse the feed data before it is passed to the Live Feed state.

: Check this box to have the player make an HTTP HEAD request before retrieving the contents of a feed. See 

Automatically generate User Variables from Data Feed:

 Use the feed to populate a set of User Variables for HTML pages. See 

This section lets you store important information about the Live Feed state for future users. It can be modified at any time.

This section lets you add commands to your presentation to extend its functionality. See 

 widget onto your canvas. You'll notice a red dot, which indicates that there's information you need to fill out in the 

Find an RSS Feed on the internet or use your own live feed (add it under the 

, specify the update interval, how often to refresh the content, and a parser plugin if you want to parse the information coming from that feed.

Connect these states using regular events as shown the image below.

Image State

Live Feed State

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

Live Text State

User Guides

Languages

Network Status

Dashboard and Menus

Undocking Panels

Tagging

Content

Event Properties