r/BrightSign

I have 2 XT2145 using both outputs. 4 individual screens. Each screen will have sometimes have its own image, or an image splitting the screen. I'm a little confused about the "On-Demand" Widget. Right now, I have an event handler sending UDP to the On-Demand widget set to <any>. Within the On Demand widget, I have all the clips for one screen. Copied all that layout over to screen 2 and changed the content inside the On Demand. It is my understanding that the On-Demand widget will filter which piece of content to trigger by whatever is in the "key field". so a UDP command of "flowing" will trigger media 1 where a UDP command of "river" will trigger media 2 as long as those clips have those key words in them. Will I get into trouble if the key word shares words? For instance, redfire and redwater would get me into trouble? Or is it looking at the entire word block?

Second, When I need synchronized playback, is it better to just send UDP to both devices or should I set up one as a leader and the other as a follower? Which part of the layout chain needs to have the synchronize widget on it? the On Demand widget? The UDP widget? Am I overcomplicating this?

Hi! I am trying to establish serial communication between an XD233 and a thermal ticket printer. The XD233 should send the message to be printed to the thermal printer, and no communication from the printer to the XD233 is needed.

As the XD233 doesn't have dedicated serial ports, I am trying to establish the communication via the GPIO pins, with their alternate functions https://docs.brightsign.biz/developers/rocontrolport . I am new to BrightSign, and I couldn't find a good example of setting of these pins to their alternate function. Could someone help me know how to enable the alternate function of the pins to send messages over them? Thanks!

Hi,

i have an old BrightSign Hd1022 media player that was running a BrightAuthor project from an SD card.

In the best case, I would like to extract the image and video files from the SD card. If that’s not possible, is there any way to run the same project on a newer BrightSign player model? t think, both options are not possible anere there is NO way?

There is a "pool" folder present on the card, but everything is probably hashed in some way, or in a special format.

greetings

Hello,

we have several older players equipped with a 15-pin GPIO interface. I can't recall the exact designation for the connector —perhaps D-Sub DB15?

In any case, we now need to connect an older 15-pin male connector to newer players that feature a 12-pin connector (a Phoenix connector, perhaps?).

What would be the best solution in this scenario? Only very simple buttons (Start, Stop) are connected via GPIO; nothing else runs through this interface.

Greetings

Are there any models (XD or XT?) that support an image in front of an HTML5 Widget?

Using an HD1024 (latest firmware), I can get a transparent overlay to work in front of a video element, but if I switch the video to an HTML5 widget, I get strange behavior wherein each zone plays consecutively:

• The image appears, and if it's a png all the transparent parts show the BrightSign background color (mine is set to green) as if there is no 2nd zone behind it.
• After 5-10 seconds, the image and background disappear, and then the website displays, and remains.
• This happens even if the timeouts on the image and image layer are set to "forever".
• Simply swapping the HTML5 asset to a video gets the desired overlay effect.

Am I missing something? Is this possible on any model BrightSign?