Sync BrightWall Presentations

this page / section pertains to brightauthor classic , our legacy app brightauthor\ connected is our latest app for managing content and players development of brightauthor classic has largely ceased and the app will eventually be deprecated and replaced with brightauthor\ connected you can create and publish simple looping playlists of videos that are synchronized across multiple players and displays with brightwall you can also use synchronize commands within interactive playlists to synchronize almost any player function, including content updates, executing serial or network commands, reading or writing files, etc synchronization uses udp messages to coordinate playback on multiple players that are on the same local network the leader player sends sync messages to the follower players, and the followers listen for sync messages to coordinate playback with the leader the difference between a synchronize command/event and a udp command/event is that the synchronize feature pre loads media players cannot pre load any state other than image/video files (i e audio, text, etc ), so it is only possible to use synchronize events with image/video states if you want to synchronize states other than image/video, you will need to use udp commands/events; however, you will not be able to achieve the same level of accuracy as when using a brightwall playlist or synchronize commands/events zone message events and commands allow you to synchronize a state among multiple zones in a single presentation notes synchronization is supported over wireless connection on bos 8 0 146 and newer (older firmware may send/receive sync messages but may not be synchronized) for more reliable synchronization, use a wired network connection if the player has more than one active network connection, make sure the players can only communicate between each other over one of the connections, otherwise duplicate sync messages may be sent/received, causing disruption of sync you cannot synchronize brightsign players that belong to different product lines when using players with different bos versions (not recommended), make sure the leader (screen 1 in a brightwall) has the same or older bos version as the follower players