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Biright Author Script Help????

sean

September 01, 2009 07:32

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I've been using your brightsign devices for a while now and am familiar with brightsign network manager, my question is my company hosts many websites where the client has the ability to create custom pdfs using our website and immediately those pdf are converted to jpgs and placed in a directory on our webserver. What I'm trying to do if possible is to play a continuous slide show of those jpgs using the brightsign 1010 automatically. I'm trying to eleminate the manual upload of the playlists and jpgs using brightauthor. Trying to make the whole slideshow process automated. I was thinking what if I setup a script to change the sync.xml file or give the jpgs the same filename as the jpgs they are repalcing. All I am trying to do is have the brightsing do a slideshow of whatever jpgs are in that folder. We are gaining more and more digital signage clients and managing the playlists and the content is exceeding ar ability we are trying to put it in the ned users hands.

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  RokuLyndon September 01, 2009 08:58

  
  
  I helped a customer with a project where we made a change to the autoxml.brs used by BrightAuthor. In this example, we used the number 99 in the name of any image we wanted to update on the fly. The URL that the brightsign would check was also added tot he autoxml.brs file on the computer.
  
  
  
  What the website did was create these images, and also generate a text file for each image. The text file can contain any information, but in this text, we used the date and time of the image creation.
  
  
  
  The brightsign will periodically check the URL for the existence of the text file, and compare the text file it finds with the text file it's previously downloaded. If the text file is different, the unit grabs the image of the same name, and download it, and plays it the next time through the loop.
  
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  sean September 01, 2009 19:53

  
  
  I'm going to try to do what you said, but I only want theslideshow to only play whats in the folder.  Your idea will probably allow me to add a new image to the show if I set it up correctly, but what if I want to add two new images and eliminate some images.  I just want it to play whatever is in the directory.  Any ideas???
  
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  RokuLyndon September 02, 2009 01:32

  
  
  Once the brightsign is setup to look at a folder for updates, it looks for a current-sync.xml file. It compares the file in the networked folder with the file that's on its card.
  
  
  
  So, you can use your website to generate a new sync file (contains list of what files have changed, and a sha1 hash code that the unit uses to verify the file has dowloaded successfully. You can then generate a new playlist, which includes the files you want to play and the playback order.
  
  
  
  With this setup, you can change the files however you, making your playlist shorter or longer.