PADS4 Capabilities on BrightSign Series 5

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Support Category Description
Automatic PADS4 Software updates Supported.
HTML5 Viewer is automatically updated.
Offline mode of device While offline from the network, the device will still continue to play PADS4 presentations and change planned schedules for 7 days.
Scheduled presentations, content and data is cached local.
     
  Device  
Portrait mode Supported. Device will adjust the rotation automatically.
Transfer protocols HTTP, HTTPS
Turn off display Supported. Signal on HDMI will be turned off..
Cluster Viewer This device is able to be used as Cluster Viewer
     
  Elements  
Video element
Maximum number of videos 1 video on each page.
Check out the supplier documentation for more info
Video rotation Not supported
Seamless videos Supported
Reflection, skew, flip Not supported
Streaming Supported (HTTP(S) and HLS) 
Uniform to fill Not supported
Image element Support for JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF
Text element Supported
Line element Supported
Shape element Supported
Scrolling text element Supported
Formatted text element Supported
Table element Supported
Interactive button element Supported (might depend on used touch display)
Web element Usage of the interactive Address Bar not supported
Powerpoint element Supported
Requirement: Microsoft Powerpoint must be installed on the PADS4 Server
Clipping, User interactivity and mousepointer not supported
PDF element Supported (Xpert license required)
     
  Data connections Data connections make it possible to show information from external sources inside presentations
Data providers More than 70 PADS4 data providers for retrieval of (realtime) data from external sources and the possibility to change and join the data to fit your purpose
Viewer Variables Usage of Viewer Variables can simplify your presentations and data connections.
It also gives the opportunity to centrally manage the content without changing presentations or data providers.
Property bindings Apply element properties by using external data sources
     
  Rules Rules will make it possible to interact on certain situations like realtime data and change the behavior of a presentation automatically
Presentation rules Supported
Page rules Supported
Element rules Supported
     
  Device Management Device management which can be performed from a remote location
Remote device management

Web based and Windows
Connection state Device connection state information
Alerts Automatically send out alerts when network failures occur for this device
Reboot Supported
Restart Viewer Not supported
Shutdown Not supported
Wake On Lan Not supported
Screenshot Supported
Logs Supported
Viewer Settings Edit Viewer Settings
Fonts Supported
Proof of play Supported
Blackbox Supported
     
  Remarks  
Colors Texture and pattern colors are not supported
Transition effects Horizontal and vertical blinds not supported
Splitters, increased circle and sliced circle not supported
Content file integrity PADS4 Content Library file integrity is checked during synchronization using MD5
Proof of play Local storage limitation of max. 50.000 records on the HTML5 Viewer during offline period.
When the 50.000 is hit, the oldest value will be removed first.

 

Remarks

Problem Solution
A video doesn’t play and shows a error loading video file message in the logs Convert the video so it adheres to a format and codec supported by BrightSign. For more information, see: https://brightsign.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/218065137-Supported-video-formats-and-codecs
When using a system font (e.g. Arial), the font size on BrightSign is bigger than defined in the presentation Install fonts using PADS4 System management and use these fonts instead inside presentations. Non-system fonts do not have this issue.
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