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USER GUIDE BrightAuthor 3.8 BrightSign, LLC. 16795 Lark Ave., Suite 200 Los Gatos, CA 95032 | 408-852-9263 | www.brightsign.biz

3 Chapter 1 – Getting Started o Windows 7 32 or 64 bit BrightSign Player – Any of the following models: • XD230 • XD1030 • XD1230 • HD120 • H

93 Chapter 7 – The TD1012 CHAPTER 7 – THE TD1012 The TD1012 is a freestanding, all-inclusive digital signage solution that you can easily place on ta

94 Chapter 7 – The TD1012 Publishing and customizing TD1012 presentations is no different from other BrightSign units. See Publishing Presentations a

95 Chapter 8 – BP900 and BP200 Button Panels CHAPTER 8 – BP900 AND BP200 BUTTON PANELS The BP900 and BP200 button panels are LED-based touch devices

96 Chapter 8 – BP900 and BP200 Button Panels • Press (First Touch): Determine whether you want the transition to occur after one push of the button.

97 Chapter 8 – BP900 and BP200 Button Panels • Advanced: Click the Advanced arrow to reveal the display options and commands section. Here you can se

98 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations CHAPTER 9 – PUBLISHING PRESENTATIONS After you create and save a presentation, you’re ready to publish it to

99 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations b. Click Local Storage (below the Publish tab). c. Click Browse under Presentations to navigate to and sele

100 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations g. If you would like to interrupt a scheduled presentation with another presentation, drag and drop the new

101 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations to schedule the new presentation in an empty timeslot. If you schedule the presentation in an occupied times

102 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations updated with incorrect schedules or data. When the USB Content Update Password window opens, select one of t

4 Chapter 1 – Getting Started logs on it. However, if you need to play media files that are 4GB or larger in size, the card must be formatted using N

103 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations c. Click Publish. When the Publish complete window opens, click OK. 9. Update your BrightSign player: a.

104 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations b. Click BrightSign Network (above the calendar). c. Under Selected Group to Schedule, use the dropdown li

105 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations f. If prompted, indicate whether you want to replace the existing schedule and then click OK. g. Repeat st

106 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations • Remove existing events, use new event: Completely removes the presentation currently occupying the timeslo

107 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations d. If you want the presentation to be a recurring event, double-click the highlighted presentation name in

108 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations • Remove existing events, use new event: Completely removes the presentation currently occupying the timeslo

109 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations 4. (Optional) Specify debugging and firmware preferences: a. Under Debugging, use the checkboxes to enabl

110 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations c. (Optional) Under Logging, check any of the following boxes to enable the corresponding logs: • Enable pl

111 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations • If you use FTP to transfer files to your web folder, publish to a folder on your computer and then use FTP

112 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations • Event time: Specify the time during the day when you want the presentation to play by using the dropdown

5 Chapter 1 – Getting Started Note: BrightAuthor requires the latest version of Microsoft .Net Framework. If this component is not already on your PC

113 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations presentation to play. If you want the presentation to stop recurring at some point, click End by and use the

114 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations • Save: The .bsfw update file is not deleted after the update is applied. The device will only reboot once t

115 Chapter 9 – Publishing Presentations • Publish each screen in a subfolder of a parent folder: The project and media files for each screen will b

116 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations CHAPTER 10 – CUSTOMIZING PRESENTATIONS This chapter will describe the different ways you can customize you

117 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations o Scale to fit: Scales the image to fit the zone. The image is displayed as large as possible with the co

118 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations HD120, HD220, HD1020, XD230 • View mode: Use the dropdown list to specify a setting for videos. o Scale

119 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations o Fill screen and centered: Centers the video and fills the screen. The aspect ratio is maintained. • Au

120 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations • Transparency: Set the transparency of the Background text color in Ticker or Clock zones. • Font: Clic

121 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations • Background bitmap: Click Browse to navigate to and select a file for a background image. Click Yes or N

122 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations Editing Other Zones The settings in the Edit Zone window correspond to the type of zone you have selected

6 Chapter 1 – Getting Started Audio files BrightSign players support the following audio formats: • AAC (LC - Low complexity profile) at Constant Bi

123 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations • Make two or more zones the same size by pressing Ctrl+Click to select the zones you want to resize. On

124 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations Tip: You can layer zones on top of each other. For example, you can place a Ticker or Clock zone on top of

125 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations Note that importing networked User Variables to a new presentation does not import any Data Feeds to which

126 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations • Date: Use the Edit field to customize the date format on the player (refer to the chart of terms for di

127 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations Networking Check the boxes to enable/disable the following: BrightSign Network, Local Networking, Bonjour,

128 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations Backups • Automatically backup BrightAuthor presentation files: Check this box enable automated saving of

129 Chapter 10 – Customizing Presentations 5. Once the scan is complete, the channel settings will be written to the internal registry of the player

130 Chapter 11 – Presentation Properties CHAPTER 11 – PRESENTATION PROPERTIES You can edit a range properties that apply to an entire presentation. T

131 Chapter 11 – Presentation Properties • RF channel scan file: Choose an RF channel scan XML file to associate with the presentation. All RF In st

132 Chapter 11 – Presentation Properties Buttons Use the dropdown list to select the type of button panel you wish to configure. Click Automatically

7 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units CHAPTER 2 – SETTING UP BRIGHTSIGN UNITS Before you can create and publish presentations, you must first set

133 Chapter 11 – Presentation Properties • Inactivity timeout (seconds): If you checked Yes above, type a number in the text field to specify the pe

134 Chapter 11 – Presentation Properties Image Cache A list of all media files in your playlist is displayed here. Check the boxes to store certain f

135 Chapter 11 – Presentation Properties • No device web page: Choose this option if you would like to enable the Local Web Server but do not want t

136 Chapter 11 – Presentation Properties • Default Value: This is the value of the User Variable if it is not modified. Whenever a User Variable is

137 Chapter 11 – Presentation Properties For example, if you add a Set Volume command to your presentation and use a static value like 50, the volum

138 Chapter 11 – Presentation Properties however, the presentation will fail to display any content if it is published in this state. • Url: Enter t

139 Chapter 11 – Presentation Properties HTML Sites Use this tab to add HTML5 sites to your presentation. You must add sites in this tab before you c

140 Chapter 11 – Presentation Properties • Access: Select Shared to make the User Variable accessible to other presentations scheduled on the player

141 Chapter 11 – Presentation Properties Switch Presentations Use this tab to publish additional presentations to the SD card along with the primary

142 Chapter 12 – Managing Your Network CHAPTER 12 – MANAGING YOUR NETWORK You can use BrightAuthor to manage your BrightSign Network and local networ

8 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units Adding a Player to your BrightSign Network To publish and manage presentations using BrightSign Network, yo

143 Chapter 12 – Managing Your Network 4. Right-click a unit to Remove the unit, Show all units, Specify a username and password, or view Info. Clic

144 Chapter 12 – Managing Your Network BrightSign Network – You can view the activity status of all units in your BrightSign Network, the groups to w

145 Chapter 12 – Managing Your Network Viewing Presentations The Presentations tab allows you to see all presentations uploaded to the network, as we

146 Chapter 12 – Managing Your Network 5. (Optional) Sort the list of presentations by clicking the column you want to use as the sort criteria. For

147 Chapter 12 – Managing Your Network • Sort the list: You can adjust the list of dynamic playlists by clicking the column you want to use as the s

148 Chapter 12 – Managing Your Network specified data or perform the specified actions (e.g. reboot the player). The Advanced Tools window is divided

149 Chapter 12 – Managing Your Network Complete the following steps to update the autorun on players linked to your BrightSign Network account: 1. S

150 Chapter 12 – Managing Your Network Variables webpage, which allows you to modify User Variables using a web browser or the BrightSign App. Both f

151 Chapter 13 – Frequently Asked Questions CHAPTER 13 – FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS For additional Frequently Asked Questions, go to http://support.b

152 Chapter 13 – Frequently Asked Questions Why does BrightAuthor take a long time to process my folder? If the folder you selected has a large numbe

9 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units a. Specify hostname: Check this box if you want to specify a custom hostname for the player on the network

153 Appendix A – Remote Control Protocols APPENDIX A – REMOTE CONTROL PROTOCOLS Currently, BrightAuthor only supports the NEC remote control protocol

154 Appendix A – Remote Control Protocols BRIGHT 4. Repeat the above steps for each remote input you want to define.

155 Appendix B – Change Log APPENDIX B – CHANGE LOG Version 3.5 April 11, 2013 • Revised Chapter 2 > Setting up a Player for Standalone Use Chapt

156 Appendix B – Change Log • Created a new chapter, “Chapter 10 – Presentation Properites” to house descriptions of all tabs in the Presentation Pr

157 Appendix B – Change Log • Expanded the explanation for enabling a proxy server in Chapter 2 > Setting up BrightSign units. • Added a descrip

158 Appendix B – Change Log • Added additional information to Chapter 9 > Importing and Exporting about importing User Variable sets that contain

159 Appendix B – Change Log • Added description of new firmware update options in Chapter 9 > Publishing with Local Storage, Publishing with Simp

10 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units of day. This is helpful if you want to limit network traffic during peak hours. Use the Start Of Range and

11 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units • Test Wireless: The player will indicate whether or not it was able to attain an IP address over wireless

12 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units d. Networked with BrightSign Network – Group: Use the dropdown list to select a BSN group for the unit. G

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13 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units d. Turn off the BrightSign unit by unplugging the power adapter. Insert the card or flash drive into the

14 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units Adding a Player to your Local Network Setting up a player for local networking allows you to With local ne

15 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units a. Data Types Enabled: Use these checkboxes to determine the types of data that will be transferred using

16 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units a. Enable network diagnostics: The player will display the network diagnostics screen during setup. • Tes

17 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units b. (Optional) Enable local web server: Check this box to enable the Local Web Server. You can include a u

18 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units Adding a Player to your Simple File Network With simple file networking, the setup file provides details a

19 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units 5. Specify the following in the Wired and Wireless tab of the Advanced Network Setup window: a. Data Typ

20 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units c. Rate Limit Network Download Traffic: Set rate limitations for downloading content. The options are div

21 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units Important: The URL for the web folder must be identical to the web folder URL you enter when publishing pr

22 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units d. Enable diagnostic logging: Creates a log that records timestamps, firmware and script versions, and th

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23 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units Setting up a Player for Standalone Use Standalone players are not connected to a network and must be updat

24 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units b. Use Proxy: Check this box if you want the player to connect using a proxy server. Type the address and

25 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units using a static IP address, enter the parameters in the fields below. 6. Select the Diagnostics tab in the

26 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units b. (Optional) Enable local web server: Check this box to enable the Local Web Server. You can include a u

27 Chapter 2 – Setting up BrightSign Units Important: Do not remove the SD card or flash drive from the player.

28 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations CHAPTER 3 – CREATING PRESENTATIONS Creating a Full-Screen Presentation In a full-screen presentation, your ima

29 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations players do not automatically rotate landscape content to display in Portrait mode (and vice versa). You will f

30 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations f. To change media files in the playlist without individually deleting and dragging, click File > Replace

31 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations When using a multi-zone template, you need to know which type of content you can include in each zone. The col

32 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations f. Select a Monitor overscan setting to control how the image fills the display screen. • No overscan: Displa

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33 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations all files currently added to the playlist is displayed below Presentation Media Files. For each file you want

34 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations • To create interactive events, see Making a presentation interactive. 5. Repeat step 4 for each zone in th

35 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations Note: You can display HTML5 pages in Video zones and Video or Images zones. HTML5 video content will play even

36 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations Live Data, Text, RSS, and Media RSS Feeds Networked BrightSign players can display RSS feeds, including standa

37 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations RSS Feeds 1. Select a Ticker zone in your presentation. 2. Click the RSS tab and drag the New RSS Feed icon

38 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations Twitter You can use your Twitter account to create a data feed from a remote source. Twitter feeds can only be

39 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations Dynamic Playlists Note: You must have a BrightSign Network account to use Dynamic Playlists. A Dynamic Playlis

40 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations Adding Dynamic Playlists: 1. Open a presentation project. Note: If you don’t see Open Presentation under File

41 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations • URL for video stream: Enter a valid URL for the stream. • Rotation (Mjpeg only): Specify the clockwise rot

42 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations a. First scanned channel: Displays the first channel detected during the channel scan (i.e. the smallest dete

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43 Chapter 3 – Creating Presentations 4. Specify channel up and channel down event triggers if you would like viewers to be able to flip through ch

44 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive CHAPTER 4 – MAKING A PRESENTATION INTERACTIVE You can use BrightAuthor to create interactive present

45 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive state,” and the file transitioned to is the “next state.” In this guide, creating and linking intera

46 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive b. Click (and hold) the file name below the thumbnail image of the current state. This media file i

47 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive c. Drag the hand pointer to the thumbnail image of the media file you want to play next (the next s

48 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive Editing Interactive Events When creating an event with an icon from the Events tab, drag the Event i

49 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive Editing Media Properties You can edit individual files in the playlist by right-clicking and then cl

50 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive Copying, Exporting, and Importing States All states can be copied, exported, and imported. Copying o

51 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive Media List By default, each time an item transitions to a Media List, the next file in the list will

52 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive • Shuffle playback: Check this box to randomize the order in which files are played from the list.

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53 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive • Populate from data feed: Select this option if you would like to populate the Media List using me

54 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive Play File Play Files also combine files into a list you can view in one window (or as one thumbnail

55 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive Make sure you use zones that match the Play File type you want to use. After setting your zone to I

56 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive o Key: The sting that will trigger the media item to play if it is matched by the input from the BP

57 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive Note: Image Mode settings that would normally crop displayed images (i.e. “Center Image” and “Scale

58 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive file in the presentation. To use this feature, Media Counters must first be enabled. Navigate to Fil

59 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive f. RSS Feed: Select this option to display an RSS feed. Click the Update RSS URL List button to cre

60 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive field), Transparency (for background text colors), Font, and, under the Advanced tab, the Background

61 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive • Previous/Next: Click these buttons to quickly switch between text fields. • Advanced: Click to

62 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive d. Use the dropdown list to select the Images zone. Make the zone Interactive. Drag the Live Text i

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63 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive General: In this tab, you will select an image for your Interactive Menu and define how a user navig

64 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive The Navigation section is where you define how a user navigates across the menu. Click the dropdown

65 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive • Menu Item Number: Every menu item has a unique menu item number. The first you create is 1, the s

66 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive The possible actions are Up, Down, Left, and Right. In this section, each action has a dropdown list

67 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive action and select 2, the user can now navigate from Menu item 1 to Menu item 2 by pressing the Down

68 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive Although Event Handlers contain no content, you can add commands and interactive events into and out

69 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive The primary mechanic of the Super State is that it functions as both a state and a self-contained in

70 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive the transition is ascending or descending through a hierarchy of Super States. • You can copy, past

71 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive Note: There are a few other options under the Advanced tab. They will depend on the type of file yo

72 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive • Increment: Specifies how much the volume level increases with each interaction. Select the Analog

1 Chapter 1 – Getting Started CHAPTER 1 – GETTING STARTED What is BrightAuthor? BrightAuthor is a software application that helps you create and publ

73 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive • Serial string (no EOL): Sends the specified string to the specified serial port. This command doe

74 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive • Set Philips Volume: Sets Philips TV volume. Other: Sends various commands that are not contained

75 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive target is met. With this feature, you can change the behavior of a presentation based on a huge arra

76 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive 8. Select Remain on current state if you want the state to remain unchanged when the interactive ev

77 Chapter 4 – Making a Presentation Interactive 3. Expand the Advanced options and check the box labeled Assign input to variable. a. Select Speci

78 Chapter 5 – Interactive Events CHAPTER 5 – INTERACTIVE EVENTS Interactive events can include any of the following. For all interactive events, mak

79 Chapter 5 – Interactive Events Event Description Continuous, you will need to specify how long the button should be pressed down ( in millisecond

80 Chapter 5 – Interactive Events Event Description Advanced options. Select Input specifies variable if the name of the User Variable will be speci

81 Chapter 5 – Interactive Events Event Description Keyboard Input Sets the action that occurs when a BrightSign player receives specific input fro

82 Chapter 5 – Interactive Events Event Description Zone Message Use this event, combined with the Send Zone Message command, to affect changes fro

2 Chapter 1 – Getting Started types of interactive event supported by a player depend on the connectors and inputs that player has (for example, play

83 Chapter 5 – Interactive Events Event Description Video Time Code Performs commands at specific times during video playback. To define the comman

84 Chapter 5 – Interactive Events Event Description times between which the interval occurs. You can also select days during which this event is act

85 Chapter 5 – Interactive Events Click the User Events tab under Media Library. To create/edit User Defined Events, click Manage. The Manage User Ev

86 Chapter 5 – Interactive Events You can also import previously created User Defined Events into BrightAuthor or export them from BrightAuthor. Clic

87 Chapter 6 – Creating a BrightWall CHAPTER 6 – CREATING A BRIGHTWALL™ The BrightWall™ feature allows you to easily create, publish, and edit video-

88 Chapter 6 – Creating a BrightWall • Screen resolution: Choose the resolution of each screen in the video wall. All video wall screens must have t

89 Chapter 6 – Creating a BrightWall For a Regular BrightWall Each screen in a video wall has a distinct playlist. You can switch among screens by se

90 Chapter 6 – Creating a BrightWall • Adding a video with a “VideoName_Number” file name to a screen will add all other videos with the same format

91 Chapter 6 – Creating a BrightWall o Fill Screen and Centered: The video will be stretched to the height or width of the video wall (whichever len

92 Chapter 6 – Creating a BrightWall Interactive Use this tab to configure how players use UDP to synchronize BrightWall playback. These options pert