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bsn.Control (Control Cloud) Library
The Postman library for BSN bsn.Control Cloud allows you to quickly familiarize yourself with the different APIs and processes associated with a BSN bsn.Control Cloud subscription. Follow the below steps to create a person/network, create a player setup, and provision a player on your network with the player setup.
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A client ID and client secret (provided by BrightSign)
Postman
The BSN bsn.Control Cloud Library library collection and bsn-control-cloud-production environment
A BrightSign player with an active internet connection
Steps
Import both the bsn.Control Cloud Library library collection and the bsn-control-cloud-production environment into Postman.
Set the Postman environment to bsn-control-cloud-production using the dropdown menu in the top right.
Select the "eye" icon and select Edit to edit the following variables (other variables will get their values from Postman scripts):
partnerLogin: The email address to use for your BSN.Cloud person credentials
partnerEmail: This email address, which should be the same as the Partner Login for now
partnerFirstName: Your first name
partnerLastName: Your last name
networkName: The name of the BSN.cloud network to create. This name must be unique within the BSN.cloud database. You can change this value later on if you want to create multiple networks to work with (for example, for different customers).
clientId: Provided by BrightSign
clientSecret: Provided by BrightSign
playerSerial: The serial number of the player you want to provision for on your BSN.cloud network.
playerModel: The model number of the player (for example, "XD1034")
deviceName: The device name, which can be arbitrary
setupName: The Device Setup object player setup name, which can be arbitrary
userAccessTokenLifetime: The amount of time that a full access token for a network remains valid . The (the default value is 15 minutes).
Go to BSN > User/Self > POST Self. Select Send to register with BSN.cloud. This call also returns your person credentials and an auto-generated password, which Postman will store.
Verify your email address:
BSN.cloud will send an email to your email address. This may take a few minutes. Click
Select the link in the email to verify the address.
You don't need to follow the additional steps in the UI to create a network . These since these steps will be performed using APIs in the next stepsbelow.
Select the Token (Self) call in the root of the library. Select Send to get a "Self" auth token, which Postman will store.
Go to BSN > User/Self > POST Self/Networks. Select Send to create a BSN.cloud network with your credentials as the network owner.
Select the Token (Full) call in the root of the BSN bsn.Control Cloud Librarylibrary. Click Select Send.
The server will return a "Full" auth token, stored in Postman, which Postman will store. This token will give you access to the network you created.
You may need to To renew the "Full" access token periodically by repeating , repeat this step. The default timeout for the token is 15 minutes.
Select the Token (device registration) call in the root of the BSN bsn.Control Cloud Librarylibrary. Click Select Send.
The server will return a "device registration" auth token, which Postman will store.
The "device registration" token is separate from a user token and allows players to provision themselves for a certain network.
Go to B-Deploy > POST /setup/. Select Send to post a setup to the B-Deploy server and get the setup ID, which Postman will store.
Go to B-Deploy > POST /device/. Select Send. Your device serial number is now associated with the ID of the device setup you created in the previous step.
Power on or reboot your player. The player will reboot several times while provisioning itself for your network.
Go to BSN > Devices > GET Devices. Select Send to get a list of the players on your network.
Go to Remote DWS > GET /info/. Select Send to get the current operational information for the playerplayer information.