If you are a venue or an organisation to whom photos are an important part of its communication, you will be wanting share them on your digital signage displays. Or if you struggle with finding ideas to freshen up your screens every day, then photos might be what you need for creating new, eye-catching content.

digitalsignage.NET allows you to stream your FlickR pictures right from your FlickR account so you don’t have to upload the same files on two platforms.

Here are the steps to follow:

Step 1. Access your FlickR account.

Go to www.flickr.com and login to your account. Stay on the Home page.

Step 2. Get the RSS feed associated to your FlickR account

You will need to add this to your digitalsignage.NET portal later on.

First, access your Photostream by clicking on the ‘’Your Photostream’’ link displayed on your Home page. This is what you should see after having done so.

Please scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the Subscribe button.

A new window will open. Copy its URL as you will need to input it when creating a new scene in digitalsignage.NET.

Step 3. Add your RSS feed to your digitalsignage.NET portal

Login to your portal by going to

https://login.digitalsignage.net if you have a Solo account

https://yourportalname.digitalsignage.net if you have a Group account

Type in your username and password.

 

After logging in, go to the Main Playlist and click on the green button saying ‘’Add scene’’

 

Then select the RssPhotoFeed scene type and please click on the blue button saying ‘’Create New Scene’’ when you hover over it.

 

After having named and scheduled your newly created scene, you can inserting the URL obtained in step 2.

 

Then click ‘’Save’’ and a message will announce you that your scene has been saved within the system.

 

Click ‘’Preview’’ to view your photos.

 

Then click Back to publish the scene on your screen.

 

Hit the flashing button saying ‘’Publish’’ at the right hand side of the screen.

 

That’s it. Your FlickR photos are now showing on your screen.

 

If you’ve got any questions please submit a support ticket or email us at info@digitalsignage.net

We are glad to announce the launch of digitalsignage.NET version 1.6 hosted on LIVE URL after implementing the following 19 items

To download the latest version of the player software go to:
http://login.digitalsignage.net  if you have a Single player account

http://yourportalname.digitalsignage.net if you have a Group account

 For SMIL players please use the following URL:

http://smil.digitalsignage.net/

Release 1.6 items

SR#	TFS Work Items	Issue Title	Details	Type	Version	Status
1	1347	WebUI – Player indication	we can change the icon of the player to show its licence expired or is inactive	CR	1.6	Done
2	1348	DsNetPlayer – Persists playlist	If playlists exists then no need to contact to the server first time just start playing content.	CR	1.6	Done
4	1350	WebUI-Change player type	Dynamx portal change the player type for the player account.	CR	1.6	Done
5	1351	DsNetPlayer – Layout Background image download	DsNetPlayer – Layout Background image download	CR	1.6	Done
6	1352	WebUI – Text Ticker Issuer	Text Ticker - although the widget does not allow you to keep the title blank, if you simply put a space char in there it allows this, but when playing shows the word NULL. I can see a use case when someone does not wish for the title to show	Bug	1.6	Done
7	1353	WebUI – Licence issue	WebUI server licence should not be added from setting->licence tab	Bug	1.6	Done
8	1354	WebUI – Player Licence Expiration	Player expiration according to its time zone.	Bug	1.6	Done
9	1355	WebUI – HTML Scene	This file type cannot be previewed	Bug	1.6	Done
10	1356	WebUI – Layout designer interface scalling	Layout Designer interface scaling	CR	1.6	Done
11	1357	DsNetPlayer- Downloading improvements	Continue  the downloading without canceling the current file on publish changes.	CR	1.6	Done
12	1358	WebUI-Create Group account and Player	Dynamax portal can create the Group account and player account	CR	1.6	Done
13	1359	WebUI – HMTL Scene preview	HTML Scene preview aspect ratio.	Bug	1.6	Done
14	1360	DsNetPlayer – Youtube scene issue	Capture Youtube video by query string.	Bug	1.6	Done
15	1362	WebUI – Channel Play list Preview window	Increase size of Preview window on Channel playlist	CR	1.6	Done
16	1363	WebUI – Layout background image	Layout background image shows indication when downloading the image.	CR	1.6	Done
17	1364	WebUI – Text ticker	In Text Scene user can select the font style	CR	1.6	Done
18	1365	WebUI – Layout Panes Save	Layout panes does not save correctly	Bug	1.6	Done
19	1329	DsNetPlayer – Small Ticker Issue	DsNetPlayer displays small text on some machines instead of its original Font	Bug	1.6	Done

 

Please note : If you are using the TV plugin,  you need to update the TvPlugin.zip from the updates section of the portal, as well as the digitalsignage.NET player.