Now that you have a fundamental understanding of how our players work, here are some recommended jump-off points.

If you intend to use BrightAuthor:connected to create and publish presentations and to manage players, it will be good to go through the user guide which begins with two quickstart guides to get you up and running quickly:

 will show you how to use BrightAuthor:connected to quickly provision a player per your desired publishing mode.

 will walk you through creating a simple presentation and publishing it to your player.

 page will help guide you through the various ways to set up players.

After your players have been set up, our many tutorial videos in the 

 section can help you get the most out of your players.

 from factory resetting a player to creating a video wall.

If you’re a partner interested in integrating your CMS with our players and services, head on over to our 

Player Management

What's Next?

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.