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Bsanderson
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Anyone else having issue with RSS feed not updating after upgrade to BA 2.2.0.39 and BS FW 3.5.68? I have a RSS ticker feed running before. But now after upgrade it is not reading the feed as configured every 5 minutes.
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    RokuLyndon


    Bill, saw your email. I'll have qa check. I hadn't heard that this was broken again.
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    Bsanderson


    Lyndon

    I think found the bug.

    when I a testing at my office.  I see the my test project to lowest cycle setting on BA for RSS to 5 minutes check feed.

    I check my production feed last night and it was 1 hour.

    I set my test project to 1 hour and the feed is working now.  I check and it is reading the feed.  I need to let it run more since
    this is a spot check.

    Looks like the BA 5 minute setting is not working

    will test again and confirm.

    bill
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    maarten81


    Lyndon,

    while you're at it, can you tell me how to make BrightSign players update a mRSS feed automatically? I search the forum and found soms topics covering this subject. But unfortunately no answers were given.

    Recently I created my own feed and it works like a charm. But when I alter it, it doesn't update. I have to do a power down reboot.

    As full media RSS feeds are becoming more common these days than simple rss feeds, this functionality seems crucial to me.

    Thanks in advance!
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    maarten81


    I just found the answer myself!
    I looked at the source of a screenfeed.com feed and inthere they used the <ttl> tag (Time To Live)

    So valid code would look like this:

    <channel>
    <title>Demo Feed</title>
    <link>http://www.url.com/</link>
    <description>Description text</description>
    <ttl>5</ttl>
    ....

    The number between the tags is in minutes. So every x minutes it flushes its cache and reads the feed again. Hope this is helpfull for some of you.

    For more information about this tags and other: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification
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    RokuLyndon


    So, what did the problem rss feed have before?
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