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  • Supporting different display types

    This can be done by changing the hdmi_group and hdmi_mode parameters in /boot/config.txt. For more details Raspberry Pi documentation. You can edit the config.txt file as follows. 1. Connect to Pi ...

  • Playlist types

    Apart from Regular playlists, there are special playlists which you set under playlist settings popup. Advertisement Playlist - Advertisement playlists contain items that needs to be inserted betwe...

  • How to add files, links, messages and special files

    piSignage supports number of asset types which can be displayed on the screen, for details refer to content types and types of links. All the assets be it files, templates, brand videos, special fi...

  • Restarting player at specific times

    piSignage player is built to run reliably and many installations run piSignage players without rebooting for months.  However, if you have need to reboot player everyday at specified time (for e.g....

  • What is the preferred OS for white-labelled or OS server

    Ubuntu or CentOS or Amazon AMI are the preferred choices. Although other platforms can also be used to host piSignage servers.

  • After open source upgrade, all data is lost

    In the later releases the mongo db has been renamed to  "pisignage-server-dev" from "pisignage-dev".If you do not see any of your previous data, you could rename the db to "pisignage-dev" in config...

  • Connectivity needs for the player (firewall)

    piSignage is built upon node.js and express framework. It uses HTML REST API to communicate with the server. Real time communication is achieved using WebSocket interface over standard http port(pl...

  • How to add the weather widget

    1. Take the example at https://github.com/colloqi/piSignage/tree/master/examples/weather (weather.html or one of the other files) 2. Change the city at line 160 3. Upload the file using Add Asset b...

  • Gap between display and displayed content

    Due to Overscan, you may see a black border for the content as shown in the image below. You can remove this by enabling overscan and adjusting overscan parameters found in /boot/config.txt.      ...

  • Adding collaborators (other users) to manage your account

    You can add more  users to manage your installation. You could specify the access rights so that they can perform only specific functions or see only groups they are assigned to. To add a person as...