Live Feed State
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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 content (different content types can be mixed into a single feed).
State Properties
Name: The user-selected name of the Live Feed state
Initial State: Select this to make this state the home screen
Source
This section lets you specify the feed source:
URL: Populate the Live Feed state from a remote URL.
Live Media Feed: Populate the Live Feed state using a Live Media Feed from your BSN Content Cloud library.
Validate: Click on this to ensure that your link is valid
Feed Configuration
This section lets you modify other options associated with the feed:
Update Interval: Specify how often the player should refresh the contents of the feed.
Parser Plugin: Select a feed parser to parse the feed data before it is passed to the Live Feed state.
Optimize Feed Updates (use HEAD calls): Check this box to have the player make an HTTP HEAD request before retrieving the contents of a feed. See here for more details.
Automatically generate User Variables from Data Feed: Use the feed to populate a set of User Variables for HTML pages. See here for more details.
Notes
This section lets you store important information about the Live Feed state for future users. It can be modified at any time.
Advanced
This section lets you add commands to your presentation to extend its functionality. See Commands and Conditional Targets | Commands for more information.
Using a Live Feed State
To add a Live Feed to your presentation:
Drag the Live Feed widget onto your canvas. You'll notice a red dot, which indicates that there's information you need to fill out in the State Properties.
Fill out the Name and Initial State fields under State Properties.
Find an RSS Feed on the internet or use your own live feed (add it under the Content tab in New Component > Live Media Feed), and enter it in the Source panel.
Under Feed Configuration, 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 in Image 1, below.
