Carousel For BrightSign Feature Overview
Applies to
- Carousel 7.0.4+
Supported Carousel Features:
- All standard template-based bulletins
- Uploaded videos (limited to codecs supported by BrightSign)
- Live Video (HDMI only)
- Analog and Digital Clocks
- Weather Bulletins
- Interactive Bulletins (HTML5 limited to Webkit)
- Zone Alerts
- Full Screen Alerts
- Crawl (crawl speed cannot be adjusted)
- Player Status Monitoring
- h.264 Streaming Video
- Player Synchronization
- Proxy Server Support
- Portrait Mode Display
- Automated Player Recovery
- Automated Firmware and Script Updates
- Monitor Control On/Off via RS-232 & CEC Over HDMI
- Interactive Bulletins
- Scheduled Player Channel Changes (excludes Video Walls)
Unsupported Carousel Features
- ATSC/QAM Live Video
- Selectable Bulletin Transitions (Uses default fade transition for all bulletins)
- 2 Line Date/Time Display on Clock Bulletins
- Countdown Clock
- Background Audio
- Active Repeating Bulletins
- Scheduled Player Channel Changes for Video Walls
- Full Screen Alerts of Interactive Bulletins
Supported Hardware
Unless otherwise noted support has been present since 7.0.0
- BrightSign XD230
- BrightSign XD1030
- BrightSign XD1230
- BrightSign XD232
- BrightSign XD1032
- BrightSign XD1132
- BrightSign XD233
- BrightSign XD1033
- BrightSign XT243
- BrightSign XT1143
- BrightSign HD223 (added in 7.0.4)
- BrightSign HD1023 (added in 7.0.4)
- BrightSign LS423 (added in 7.0.5)
- BrightSign HO523 (added in 7.0.5)
- BrightSign AIO (Integrated Brightsign Display) (Added in 7.0.5)
Supported Media Formats
- Video Codecs: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264, WMV - *no audio with WMV
- Video Containers: MPEG-2 transport and program streams, AVCHD/BDAV, ASF, MP4, MOV
- Images: BMP, JPEG, PNG
- Audio: MP3
- Other: HTML5
Supported Display Resolutions
HDMI
640x480x60p1280x800x60p1920x1080x59.94iNTSC-M-JPN720x480x59.94p1280x800x75p1920x1080x60iPAL-I720x480x60p1280x960x60p1920x1080x24pPAL-BG720x576x50p1280x1024x60p1920x1080x25pPAL-N800x600x60p1280x1024x75p1920x1080x29.97pPAL-NC800x600x75p1360x768x60p1920x1080x30pPAL-M 1024x768x60p1400x1050x60p1920x1080x50p 1024x768x75p1400x1050x75p1920x1080x59.94p 1280x720x50p1440x900x60p1920x1080x60p 1280x720x59.94p1440x900x75pNTSC-COMPONENT 1280x720x60p1600x1200x60pPAL-COMPONENT 1280x768x60p1920x1080x50iNTSC-M
VGA
640x480x60p1280x768x60p 1280x1024x75p 1440x900x75p 800x600x75p1280x800x60p1360x768x60p1600x1200x60p800x600x60p1280x800x75p1400x1050x60p 1024x768x60p 1280x960x60p1400x1050x75p 1024x768x75p 1280x1024x60p1440x900x60p
Component
720x480x59.94p1280x1024x75p1920x1080x30pNTSC-M-JPN720x480x60p1920x1080x50i1920x1080x50pPAL-I 720x576x50p1920x1080x59.94i1920x1080x59.94pPAL-BG 1280x720x50p1920x1080x60i1920x1080x60pPAL-N 1280x720x59.94p1920x1080x24p NTSC-COMPONENTPAL-NC 1280x720x60p1920x1080x25p PAL-COMPONENTPAL-M 1280x1024x60p 1920x1080x29.97p NTSC-M
Methods for Automated Configuration
- DHCP Option 43 (added in 7.1)
- DNS Configuration for a Known URL (added in 7.1)
