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Easy Media update in my project

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Petit Benjamin
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Hello,

I have a project where I have 4 screens, each one controlled by a brightsign.

On startup/idle each screen disaplay a fixed fullscreen frame (first frame of a video or a fullscreen image).

I have a GPIO motion sensor plugged on one of the brightsign which launch a video on the first screen when it detects motion. When the video ends it sends a UDP command to the second brightsign which plays the second video on the second screen... and so on for the third screen and fourth screen.

My client want to be able to update the video / idle images by himself by uploading the video to a server / network disk and without having to regenerate/push the project with BrightAuthor or Brightsign Network.

I would really like for them to just upload videos on a server with the correct name and that the bright sign units sync the video with the server at startup. 

Is there a simple way to do so? Update media or synchronize media with a remote server (even just on startup)?

Or should I go for HTML5 video? But will it be fast enough when loading the webpage? If so which Brightsign would you suggest?

What about Media RSS feeds?

Thank you a lot for your help,

Benjamin

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    Bright Scripters

    Hi,

    MRSS seems to be a good choice, because content is cached on the player, so the media would be playing from a local copy.

    The challenge would be to create the user interface for uploading files to a server, and automatically generate the MRSS feed from the uploaded content. BrightSign Network provides all those moving parts, out of the box, so you can save a lot of time by simply giving that a try.

    Another solution could be SignCast feeds, that offers a much cleaner UI, focused on only what you need for the application.

    http://www.signcast.nl/support/html/index.html

     

    Using a feed would make the workflow safer, but watch out for spaces in file names, and avoid them :)

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    Petit Benjamin

    Thank you for your help. I will give it a try.

    I think I will ask my client to upload his content on a FTP / Dropbox or via a webservice that I will create and I will create a daemon script that check if there are new files and update the MRSS feed xml with a new guid.

    I will also try BSN but it seems a bit expensive as I have 4 units to control.

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