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Learning Videos
Watch these concise, easy-to-follow videos to learn how to use your BrightSign player.
Each section builds one another for a clear path to mastery, or skip to a specific topic. Sample assets are provided where noted.
If you are new to BrightSign, you should first watch our Quickstart videos (which describe player setup).
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Setting up BSN.cloud
BrightSign Players include a free BSN.cloud subscription that allows users to control a single device or a network of players in real-time from anywhere. This tutorial explains how to install and setup BSN.cloud on your BrightSign player.
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Publishing Methods
This tutorial explains the four publishing methods in the BrightSign player ecosystem: Standalone, Local File Networking (LFN), Simple File Networking (SFN), and BSN.cloud.
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Changing the Publishing Method
By default, BrightSign players are setup to receive content updates over a local area network or via BSN.cloud. This tutorial teaches how to change from the default publishing method to another method, such as Simple File Networking.
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Setting up a Standalone Player
One of the easiest ways to get your BrightSign player up and running is to set it up as a Standalone device. This tutorial explains how to setup your player as a standalone device, which is convenient when setting up a single player.
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Setting Up Multiple Players
If you have multiple players to setup, you can use the B-Deploy feature to provision several players at a time. This tutorial explains how to setup multiple players.
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Using a Partner CMS
You can control BrightSign players on your network using BSN.cloud, and you can publish content to those players using BrightAuthor:connected, or by using a third party CMS. This tutorial explains how to use BSN.cloud with a partner CMS.
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Publishing Content to Your Player
In this tutorial, you will learn how to publish content to your BrightSign player using the the BrightAuthor:connected Welcome Presentation.
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How to Factory Reset Your Player
There are some situations where you will want to reset a BrightSign player and start from scratch. In this tutorial, you will learn how to factory reset a player and format its micro SD card so you can change the device type of the player.
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Advanced Player Setup
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to manage a BrightSign player network and how to apply advanced device settings either remotely or manually.
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Using Player Groups
BSN.cloud Content Cloud subscribers have the ability to separate BrightSign players into groups. When you publish to a group all the players in that group will run the same presentation. This tutorial explains how to publish content to player groups.
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Managing Media
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to upload and manage content using BrightAuthor:connected, allowing you to publish presentations that contain images, video, audio, and HTML pages.
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Building a Simple Presentation
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a simple presentation, and publish it to your BrightSign player.
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Building a Multizone Presentation
This tutorial explains how to use BrightAuthor:connected to build a multizone presentation, where specified regions of the screen display various types of content simultaneously.
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Scheduling and Publishing Content
This tutorial explains how to schedule and publish a presentation to your BrightSign player.
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Creating a Ticker
In this tutorial, you will learn how to generate both static and live text, make and format a ticker zone, add text to the zone, and make live updates to the ticker text while a presentation is running.
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Adding Time and Date
In this tutorial, you will learn how to add and format the date and time in two separate clock zones within a multi-zone presentation using BrightAuthor:connected.
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Using a Transparent Overlay
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use BrightAuthor:connected to add a PNG image with transparent areas to a multizone presentation.
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Making an HTML5 Presentation
With BrightAuthor:connected, you can make HTML5 presentations to display websites, utilize touch gestures (like swiping), use JavaScript, and update text. In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a presentation using an HTML5 webpage and publish it directly to your BrightSign player. Then we’ll switch over to BSN.cloud to see how to host HTML sites remotely both on a web server and via BSN.cloud.
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How to Use Audio Zones
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make an audio zone that includes a playlist of audio tracks, as well as a dynamic playlist that can be updated live. You’ll also learn how to mute the audio coming from the video zones.
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Using the Video In Widget
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to add HDMI content, even HDCP content, to a video zone using the Video In widget.
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How to Use Streaming Content
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to stream content to your presentation using BrightAuthor:connected.
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How to Use Interactive Touch Features
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use BrightAuthor:connected to create an interactive playlist, which enables users to select a video from a menu using a touchscreen or mouse.
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How to Use Interactive Button Panels
In this tutorial, you will learn how to build an interactive presentation that uses a button panel to trigger content.
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How to Use Zone Messaging
In this tutorial, you will learn how to add interactive touch functionally to the multi-zone presentation using zone message events and zone message commands.