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- Save the presentations you want to publish by clicking File > Save… As. You will also be prompted to save a presentation if there are unsaved changes to the presentation when you switch to the Publish tab.
- Click the Publish tab.
- Click Local Storage (below the Publish tab).
- Choose whether you want to publish Presentations or BrightWall™ Presentations.
- Click Browse under Presentations to navigate to and select the folder where your presentations are stored.
Adding Presentations to Your Schedule
Follow these steps to add presentations to the player schedule:
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- Range of recurrence: Use this option to limit the recurrence of the scheduled presentation.
- Start: Specify the start date of the scheduled recurrence. This date defaults to the currently selected date in the schedule.
- End: Select No end to have the presentation recur indefinitely, or select End by and specify the end date of the scheduled recurrence.
- Range of recurrence: Use this option to limit the recurrence of the scheduled presentation.
Schedule Interrupts
You can create a day-parted schedule by scheduling presentations in separate time slots of a single day (or a set of recurring days). Later on, you may need to schedule a new presentation in an occupied time slot. This is where schedule interrupts are useful.
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- Keep existing events, cancel new event: Cancels the new schedule presentation action.
- Keep existing events, adjust new event: Opens the Schedule Presentation window, allowing you to schedule the new presentation in an empty time slot. If you schedule the presentation in an occupied time slot, the Schedule Conflict window will appear again.
- Remove existing events, use new event: Completely removes the presentation currently occupying the time slot.
- Interrupt existing events with new event: Schedules an interrupt in the presentation currently occupying the time slot. The date field will be split into two columns: The left column shows the primary scheduled presentation in blue; the right column shows the interrupting presentation in green. Primary scheduled presentations can be interrupted with multiple presentations, but interrupting presentations cannot overlap with each other.
Debugging
Under Debugging, you may optionally enable the following:
- Enable serial debugging: The autorun script will output debugging information related to the presentation to the RS-232 serial port (as well as over Telnet and SSH if these features are enabled).
- Enable system log debugging: The autorun script will output debugging information related to the presentation to the Log tab in the Diagnostic Web Server.
Publishing Options
Select one of the following publishing options:
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- USB update (FW only): Publishes a firmware update file to a USB flash drive. You can use this feature to update the firmware on a player without ever needing to remove the SD card or publish a new schedule to the player. Use the Specify Firmware Update button (described below) to determine the update version.
Logging
Click Specify Logging to enable/disable logs on the player:
- Enable playback logging: Records playback start and end times, zone names, media types, and file names.
- Enable event logging: Records timestamps, state names, zone names, event types, and event data.
- Enable state logging: Records current and last state names, timestamps, and media types.
- Enable diagnostic logging: Records timestamps, firmware and script versions, and the current presentation.
- Enable Variable logging: Records the current and default values of all User Variables in the presentation. This log is only generated when logs are uploaded to custom log handler URL.
Firmware Updates
Click Specify Firmware Update to include a firmware update file with the published schedule. In the Firmware Update window, locate the section corresponding to your BrightSign model and select one of the following:
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- Standard: The firmware update is applied, the player reboots, and the .bsfw update file deletes itself from the local storage.
- Different: The update will only be applied if the version of the .bsfw update file does not match the current firmware version of the player. The file is not deleted after the update process is completed.
- Newer: The update will only be applied if the version of the .bsfw update file is newer than the current firmware version of the player. The file is not deleted after the update process is completed.
- Save: The firmware update is applied, but the .bsfw update file is not deleted. The device will only reboot once the storage device containing the update file is removed.
Publishing the Scheduled Presentation(s)
Once you've created the presentation schedule and configured the publishing options, follow these steps to publish the schedule to your BrightSign player(s):
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