Connect BrightSign over serial port
Connecting the BrightSign player over serial port to PC or Mac is very helpful during development and troubleshooting. Let us know if this is a topic you are interested in.
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BrightSign Support by 3rd party
BrightSign is a solid digital signage media player that can run for years 24/7. Get the Support for success with BrightSign
BrightSign DWS not showing Telnet nor SSH access
When Telnet and SSH access is not showing in DWS Diagnostics tab and you know that the OS version supports this feature. Get the answer here and thanks for the coffee!
HTML Debugging with remote DevTools (inspector)
On Gen4 at 8.5.53.2 the below seems to be working, except for screencast. Had issues with connecting to Gen5 from Windows 10 on other PC. Wonder if there is a firewall related issue… sub main() x = 0 y = 0 width = 1920 height = 1080 ...
BrightScript Reference as pdf
A local copy of the BrightScript Reference could be useful at times. Here is the BrightSign BrightScript v9 reference document for download. More can be found here https://brightsign.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/pages/370672718/BrightScript
Free public APIs for developers
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Online BrightScript REPL
If you need to fiddle with BrightScript code, this REPL is the perfect solution. https://brsfiddle.net/ Desktop Simulators for BrightScript can be found here: https://github.com/lvcabral/brs-desktop/releases
Anonymous function in BrightScript
Not the prettiest code but if you must use anonymous function as a function argument in BrightScript you can. This would be the equivalent to JavaScript Arrow Function. ' This function applies a passed function to an argument ' apply = function ( a,...
Promise in BrightScript
Implement promise in BrightScript ' methods 'promise_resolve 'promise_reject 'promise_All ' Fulfills when all of the promises fulfill; rejects when any of the promises rejects. 'promise_AllSettled ' Fulfills when all promises settle. 'promise_race ' ...