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RSS Media GET and TimeOut Timer

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Bsanderson
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I notice the RSS Media in my Video Zone sometimes fails to display the RSS Media image. I see in my logs the BS unit call out to the XML, the calls the image file from my web server. But it sometimes never shows up and moves to the next video. i know there must be a timeout when the BS unit didn't get the image in time to process and display so it moves onto the next video. Is there any way to pre-fetch an RSS Media item or increase the RSS Media pre-fetch windows. Since this is a RSS Media item is a custom weather image we built. A better solution would be able to cache the image once an hour. Since I do not generate a new weather image more than once an hour. Is there a cache option to pre cache RSS Media images? thanks bill
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    RokuLyndon


    The unit should be automatically caching images pulled down from your media rss feed. And, displaying the item in the cache if it is unable to reach the feed. Can you send a sample project to test with? I can change the content. Can your feed be tested externally?

    Also, if you turn on debug it would be good to get the serial output when the feed cache item or downloaded image fails to display. Or, did you already do that and there's no error indicated?
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    Bsanderson


    yes feed can be test externally.

    I will email you feed link I do not wish to share the feed url in the forum.
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    ashiant



    In terms of RSS and image caching, is there a way to set the limit of time that an image gets cached?  I appreciate the need to cache in the event that there is connectivity failure, but at the same time, it seems to only fail safe.  It would also be amazing to set a transition for mrss.  I tried forcing the default transition to "Fade to new image" in the autorun.brs but have never gotten it to work.

    I'm also somewhat puzzled by the behavior of the media rss in terms of only seeming to display the first item in the rss, this could be from bad rss tags since I didn't have much to go with on how to generate the file.

    The example I'm using for testing is below, I have full control of it so I can modify it as needed.  It's ok for it to be public.
    http://webcams.southernct.edu/rss/

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    RokuLyndon



    This faq item has a saple xml file for a media rss item.
    http://support.brightsign.biz/entries/20610996-what-kinds-of-media-rss-feeds-can-i-use-brightauthor

    I would recommend updating to the latest brightauthor, version 2.3.

    For the transition, you can add an image to the same zone as the feed, and set the transition for that image, and the files from the feed will use the same transition.  The other option would be to modify the autorun.brs script to set a transition for the feedplayer that controls playback from media rss feeds.

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