Ticker messages and styles

You can add a ticker at the bottom of the screen at group level or at playlist level. A playlist ticker overrides the group ticker.

The ticker can show text messages that you enter, or messages from an RSS feed.

New interface

• Group ticker: Groups → open the group → Ticker (top right).
• Playlist ticker: Playlists → open the playlist → Settings tab → Ticker → Enable Ticker.

• Scroll direction: Slide shows one line at a time, each for 10 seconds. Scroll left / Scroll right scroll all lines in one row. Hardware left / right use the player's hardware ticker for smoother scrolling, and fall back to Scroll left / right if the player has none.
• Ticker speed: Slow, Medium or Fast.
• Ticker height: 60 px (default), 100 px, or Custom.
• Optional CSS: style for the text, for example color:#eee;font-style:italic
• Type of ticker: Text (one message per line) or RSS feed (enter the feed URL; it is refreshed every 10 minutes). Turn on binary encoding if some characters are not displayed correctly, or the description field to show item descriptions instead of titles.
• Show text associated with asset: shows the Text Overlay of the playing asset in the ticker. Set it with the T icon on the asset row in the playlist.

Tip: on Raspberry Pi and Linux players, these words in a message are replaced: __playername__ (player name), __ipaddress__ (IP address), __cpuid__ (player ID) and __connectionstatus__ (connection status).

Classic interface

The Ticker can be a scrolling text (right to left or left to right) or sliding from the bottom. CSS style can be applied to the Ticker as well the speed of the ticker can be specified as shown in the screenshot.