BAconnected Feature FAQ

BrightWall™ for BrightAuthor:connected is on the roadmap but has not yet been implemented. We have improved video wall creation tools in BrightAuthor:connected, and you can find that information at Create a VideoWall

BrightWall™ is available for use in BrightAuthor versions 3.8.0.x or later. 

Custom splash screens are not available in the current version of BrightAuthor:connected. To use a custom splash screen, use BrightAuthor. 

Yes. Geofencing is available as of version 1.32.0 of BrightAuthor:connected. To use geo-fencing on a BrightSign player with BrightAuthor, see this FAQ. 

Yes. All BrightSign players (except the HD600) support this.

• Image files that are displayed in a Video or Image or Image zone will automatically display over video zones. 

• Use a Live Text State to layer text over a video in an Image or Video or Image zone. The Live Text State also lets you switch between one or more text fields with background images.

• You can layer text over an image by placing a Ticker Zone over an Image zone.

Text and RSS can be displayed as static, animated, or scrolling text within a Ticker Zone**. The video in the linked page provides a tutorial on this and other methods of displaying text.

To display Twitter content in BrightAuthor:connected, use a HTML page that embeds the Twitter content. See https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/timelines/overview.

**This feature is also available in BrightScript via the roTextWidget object and JavaScript via the BSTicker object.

BrightAuthor:connected presentations running on a player will cache a single Media RSS (MRSS) feed and retain the content files until they are refreshed. See Media RSS Feeds for additional information.

When displaying a Media RSS feed, a BrightAuthor:connected presentation will play files as they are downloaded (not download the entire feed before starting playback). The presentation waits up to five seconds per image. If an image file takes longer than five seconds to download, the unit skips to the next image in the feed. If a video file hasn't finished downloading, the unit skips to the next file until all feed items have been attempted.

The player will play feed items that are already downloaded while waiting for the rest of the feed to be completed.    

See this page to build a basic, non-interactive playlist, or this page to build an interactive playlist.

If you enable the Shuffle playback option in a Media List state, the playlist will shuffle upon entering the media list state when it’s at the beginning of the list. If you are manually advancing through a media list using interactive input, then the playlist shuffles the Media List when it reaches the end of the list. It is also possible to advance to the next file in the list.

The Media List state is only available for use in an Interactive presentation.

In a BrightAuthor:connected Interactive playlist all input is automatically ignored unless it is manually defined in BrightAuthor:connected. For an example of how to define input, see Create GPIO Input in BA:connected.