BrightSign Development

Connect BrightSign over serial port

Bright Scripters — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 02:09:30 GMT

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.

BrightSign Support by 3rd party

Bright Scripters — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:56:20 GMT

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

Bright Scripters — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 01:05:55 GMT

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)

Bright Scripters — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 23:29:35 GMT

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
    rect = CreateObject("roRectangle", x, y, width, height)

    url = "https://google.com"

    msgPort = CreateObject("roMessagePort")


    inspectorServerPort = 2999

    config = {
    url: url,
    mouse_enabled: false,
    storage_path: "/local/",
    port: msgPort,
    inspector_server:{port:inspectorServerPort}
    }

    html = CreateObject("roHtmlWidget", rect, config)
    html.Show()

    print "Debug with Chromium: chrome://inspect/devices#devices"

    ip = createobject("ronetworkconfiguration",0).getcurrentconfig().ip4_address
    print "Debug with Chromium: http://" + ip + ":" + inspectorServerPort.toStr()

    while true
        msg = msgPort.WaitMessage(0)
        print "@http Event: "
        print msg.getData()
    end while

end sub

BrightScript Reference as pdf

Bright Scripters — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:40:47 GMT

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

Bright Scripters — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 02:38:11 GMT

https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/

https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data

https://picsum.photos/

https://digidates.de/

Online BrightScript REPL

Bright Scripters — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:28:36 GMT

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

Bright Scripters — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 04:57:50 GMT

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, fn ) 
    fn(a)
end function

' Here we apply a string to an anonymouse function which prints its argument a '
apply( "foo", function(a) 
                print a
              end function )

Promise in BrightScript

Bright Scripters — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:57:01 GMT

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 ' Settles when any of the promises settles. In other words, fulfills when any of the promises fulfills; rejects when any of the promises rejects.
'promise_any ' Fulfills when any of the promises fulfills; rejects when all of the promises reject.
'promise_finally

BrightSign User Agent String

Bright Scripters — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 03:47:37 GMT

How to change the User Agent String on the BrightSign player’s browser.

BrightScript code example roVideoPlayer

Bright Scripters — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 04:05:15 GMT

This example shows how to play a video loop and send out UDP message at the end of the video.


' This sample code loops a video and send out a UDP message at the end of the video.
' Created by BrightScripters

' Usage
' Place this script at the root of a blank microSD card.
' Typically this file would be renamed to autorun.brs so it starts automatically.
' Place a video file at the root of the microSD card. The script will look for file name video1.mp4.
' Every time the video file reaches its end, a UDP message is sent out and the video restarts.
' Make adjustments to the variables bellow.

'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
' Variables
videoFileName$ = "video1.mp4"
udpMessage$ = "my_udp_message"
udpPort% = 5000
udpDestinationIp$ = "255.255.255.255"

'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

u = createObject("roDatagramSender")
u.setDestination( udpDestinationIp$, udpPort% )

v = createObject("roVideoPlayer")

Find the rest of this code at
https://buymeacoffee.com/brightscripters/brightscript-code-example-rovideoplayer

UDP Sender Receiver for Windows and more

Bright Scripters — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 03:33:33 GMT

The following tools can be very helpful when sending or receiving UDP messages with

Read the rest of this article here

JSON Beautify for BrightScript

Bright Scripters — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 05:48:56 GMT

' JSON Beautifier for BrightScript
' By BrightScripters 
function json_beautify(in$) as string
    indentLevel = 0
    out$ = ""
    newLine$ = chr(13) + chr(10)

    for i = 0 to in$.len() - 1
        char$ = in$.mid(i,1)

        if char$ = "{" or char$ = "[" then
            indentLevel = indentLevel + 1
            out$ = out$ +  char$ + newLine$ + indentStr(indentLevel)
        else if char$ = "}" or char$ = "]" then
            indentLevel = indentLevel - 1
            out$ = out$ + newLine$ + indentStr(indentLevel) + char$
        else if char$ = ":" then
            out$ = out$ + char$ + " " 
        else if char$ = "," then
            out$ = out$ + char$ + newLine$ + indentStr(indentLevel)
        else
            out$ =  out$ + char$
        end if

    end for

    return out$
end function


function indentStr( indentLevel ) as string
    indentStr$ = ""
    for i = 0 to indentLevel - 1
        indentStr$ = indentStr$ + "    "
    end for
    return indentStr$
end function

BrightSign player default password

Bright Scripters — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 17:10:54 GMT

Default password for the BrightSign player's Diagnostics Web Server aka DWS is the player's serial number.

Convert BrightAuthor schedule to BrightAuthor Connected

Bright Scripters — Tue, 07 May 2024 02:17:52 GMT

Welcome to our blog! If you are looking for a way to convert schedule file from BrightAuthor and import it into BrightAuthor Connected, then please leave a comment here. We've had the same challenge and are in the process of making a schedule converter for BrightAuthor.

How to rename git branch

Bright Scripters — Tue, 07 May 2024 02:10:02 GMT

# How to rename local git branch
git branch -m newBranchName

# If the old branch name has alrady been pushed to remote, 
# you'd need to do a bit of cleanup.

# To list all your branches:
git branch -a

Git tags push to remote

Bright Scripters — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 03:11:04 GMT

List tags

git tag -l

Push all tags to remote

git push [remote_name] --tags

Adding very long integers with brightScript

Bright Scripters — Mon, 29 May 2023 14:37:41 GMT


function longAdd( a$, b$ ) as string
    result$ = ""
    carry = 0

    a$ = a$.trim()
    b$ = b$.trim()

    ' Guess longest
    diff = abs( b$.len() - a$.len() )
    longest = a$.len()

    ' is it longest
    if b$.len() > longest then
        longest = b$.len()
        a$ = zeroPadLeft(a$, diff)
    else
        b$ = zeroPadLeft(b$, diff)
    end if

    ' print "@longAdd() a, b: >"; a$ + "< >" + b$ + "< ", carry

    for i = longest - 1 to 0 step -1

        ai = val( a$.mid(i,1) )
        bi = val( b$.mid(i,1) )

        sumi$ = str( ai + bi + carry ).trim()

        if sumi$.len() = 1
            ' print "single digit: "; ai, bi, sumi$
            result$ = sumi$.mid(0,1) + result$
            carry = 0
        else
            ' print "Two digits: "; ai, bi, sumi$
            result$ = sumi$.mid(1,1) + result$
            carry = val( sumi$.mid(0,1) )
        end if

        ' print "Result: "; result$
        ' print "Carry: "; carry

    end for

    if carry > 0 result$ = str(carry) + result$

    return result$ 

end function


function zeroPadLeft( str$, pads ) as string
    if pads < 1 then return str$ ' do nothing
    for i = 1 to pads
        str$ = "0" + str$.trim()
    end for
    return str$.trim()
end function

Project Euler Problem 8

Bright Scripters — Sat, 27 May 2023 23:20:19 GMT


' https://projecteuler.net/problem=8
' 23514624000

sub main()

    num$ ="7316717653133062491922511967442657474235534919493496983520312774506326239578318016984801869478851843858615607891129494954595017379583319528532088055111254069874715852386305071569329096329522744304355766896648950445244523161731856403098711121722383113622298934233803081353362766142828064444866452387493035890729629049156044077239071381051585930796086670172427121883998797908792274921901699720888093776657273330010533678812202354218097512545405947522435258490771167055601360483958644670632441572215539753697817977846174064955149290862569321978468622482839722413756570560574902614079729686524145351004748216637048440319989000889524345065854122758866688116427171479924442928230863465674813919123162824586178664583591245665294765456828489128831426076900422421902267105562632111110937054421750694165896040807198403850962455444362981230987879927244284909188845801561660979191338754992005240636899125607176060588611646710940507754100225698315520005593572972571636269561882670428252483600823257530420752963450"

    max = 0
    width = 13

    for i = 0 to num$.len() - 1 - (width - 1)
        fourDigits$ = num$.mid(i,width)
        prod = product(fourDigits$)
        if prod > max then max = prod
    end for

    print "Result: "; max

end sub


function product( digitsStr ) 
    p = 1
    for i = 0 to digitsStr.len() - 1
        p = p * val( digitsStr.mid(i,1) )
    end for
    return p
end function

Project Euler Problem 5

Bright Scripters — Sat, 27 May 2023 04:03:44 GMT


' https://projecteuler.net/problem=5
' 232792560

sub main()
' 2520 is the smallest number that can be divided by each of the numbers from 1 to 10 
'  without any remainder.
' What is the smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 20?


num = 20

while not done
    divs = [ 19,18,17,16,15,14,13,12,11 ]

    for i = 0 to divs.count()-1
        if not isDivisable( num, divs[i] )
            exit for
        end if
    end for

    if i = divs.count() 
        exit while 
    end if

    num = num + 20

end while

print "Num: "; num

end sub


function isDivisable( number, div ) as boolean
    return (number mod div) = 0
end function