BRIGHTAUTHOR RELEASE NOTES

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1 Release Notes April 7, 2013 BRIGHTAUTHOR RELEASE NOTES BrightSign, LLC Lark Ave., Suite 200 Los Gatos, CA

2 BrightAuthor Requirements PC with Windows Vista or Windows 7, plus Microsoft.Net Framework 4.0 or later BrightSign XD230, XD1030, XD1230, HD120, HD220, HD1020, or AU320 Minimum Firmware Required: BrightSign HD110, HD 210, HD410, HD810, HD1010, or HD1010w Minimum Firmware Required: Help and Feedback If you would like to learn more about the new BrightAuthor features described below, please download the User Guide. If you are new to BrightAuthor, you can also visit the Tutorial Videos page. If you have any questions, please contact us at Changes Since New Features Presentation preview BrightWall (enhanced video-wall synchronization) Copy/Paste, Export/Import states 1

3 Superstates: The ability to transition into and out of a state that contains its own interactive playlist. Exit commands: You can now specify Advanced Commands to occur when a state or media file is entered or exited. Ability to interrupt scheduled presentations Custom fonts for HTML5 states HTML manifest caching Presentation autosave/backup feature Option to resize images that are too large Notes section for each state Support for wildcards within serial events Dynamic Playlists for audio files Ability to limit the number of Tweets displayed in a Twitter feed Ability to populate Media Lists or Play Files from Data Feeds New Resize Zone command New Tuner scan percent complete system variable Support for the 1600x1200 screen resolution 2

4 Bug Fixes Text fields in Live Text states are no longer unrecoverable if the screen resolution of the presentation or the size of the zone is changed. A BrightSign Network user who doesn t have permissions to delete a Dynamic Playlist or Live Data Feed in the Manage tab will now receive an informative error message when he or she attempts to do so. Transitioning out of an HTML5 page containing video now also silences any audio track that was part of the video. Time/Clock events that are set to trigger at intervals that are Periodic throughout the day now work correctly with Media List states. There is no longer a possibility of HLS streams restarting before the end of playback. Frequently switching between a Video or Images zone and an Audio Only or Video Only zone no longer has a chance of causing BrightAuthor to crash. Note that this fix only applies to new presentations. On/Off icons in the preview window of the Interactive Menu state are now displayed at an accurate size. Advanced commands will no longer disappear if you attempt to add approximately 40 or more of them to an event or state at one time. Including an apostrophe in a User Variable (either as a default or assigned value) no longer causes the player to crash. 3

5 You are no longer allowed to upload a Data Feed to the BrightSign Network if it contains Titles with duplicate names. Adding an extremely long URL to a Video Stream or Mjpeg Stream state no longer causes the OK button to be pushed off the screen. Edit > Undo now correctly reverts changes to a Live Text state (when the Live Text state window is not open). BrightAuthor no longer crashes if you cancel a BSN upload of a presentation containing one or more HTML pages. An HTML site upload to BSN will no longer fail if the upload contains one or more zero-length files. The Local File Network publishing process will no longer fail if an included HTML site contains an autorun file (.brs) or firmware update file. When creating a new presentation, clicking the Cancel button while viewing User Defined Templates will select the default Full Screen template rather than a custom template. Improvements Setting the Monitor Orientation of a presentation to Portrait now rotates all HTML pages in the presentation to portrait mode. You can no longer add media files with extensions that are not supported by the target BrightSign model. 4

6 Players can now display MRSS feeds from Google Picasa. User Variables can now have empty default values. BrightAuthor will now prompt you to create a resized copy of an image if you attempt to add an image that is too large for the target screen. The BrightSign Network is now disabled by default in the Edit > Preferences window for fresh installs of BrightAuthor. Conversely, Local Networking is now enabled by default. Adding an RF channel scan file to a presentation (using the RF In > Specify RF channel scan file option) now works for all remote publishing methods: Local File Networking, Simple File Networking, and the BrightSign Network. All BrightSign Network user permissions groups are now allowed to perform the unit setup process. To improve network security, the following characters are no longer allowed when specifying the Name of a player during the unit setup $ % ^ * + = ~ { } [ ] \ : ;? < > To improve network security, the following characters are no longer allowed when specifying the Description of a player during the unit setup process:! $ % ^ * + = ~ { } [ ] \ : ; < > Standalone publishing is now the default configuration in the Unit Setup window for fresh installs of BrightAuthor. All touch regions, even those that are not selected, are now clearly visible when editing a Rectangular Touch event. 5

7 When resizing a zone using the W and H fields in the Layout tab, the user will no longer be prompted with an error message if there is not enough room on the screen below or to the right of the zone. Instead, BrightAuthor will dynamically fit the zone to the screen canvas if there is room. When publishing a presentation containing a locally stored HTML file, BrightAuthor will now only publish files associated with the HTML file rather than all files and folders in the directory containing the HTML file. Transitioning out of, and then back into, an HTML5 state now completely reloads the HTML page. You now have the option to set the Update Interval of a Data Feed to Once only. Each Data Feed now has an Advanced button, which gives you access to all the options available when you create a Data Feed. You can no longer set the Time to Display Each Line parameter of a Ticker zone to greater than 60 minutes (3600 seconds). This restriction reflects the system software limitations of the player. Remote Input events can now be used to navigate RF In states. Zone Message events can now be used to navigate Interactive Menu and RF In states. They can also trigger next and previous transitions within Media List states. Serial Input events can now trigger next and previous transitions within Media List states. 6

8 To improve transition times to the Publish > Local Network screen, the list of players on the local network is no longer refreshed every time the user accesses this screen. The list will be populated upon first accessing this screen and upon clicking the Refresh button. The Local Web Server can now be enabled during the Unit Setup process even if Local File Networking is disabled. The Device Web Page now has a lighter background color to better match the color scheme of the BrightSign App. Attempting to access the Local Web Server at port 8080 of the player s IP address now returns an informative webpage rather than a 404 error code. The page states that the port number of the Local Web Server is now located at port Twitter user names containing symbol are now supported. BrightAuthor now checks the file system of a target SD card to ensure it is using a compatible format. The Create tab is no longer hidden if the BrightSign Network is disabled. This allows access to the new BrightWall feature for all users. If a presentation is published to an incompatible player model, the player will now reboot two minutes after a warning message appears. This allows you to recover the player remotely via the BrightSign Network. The player will now make an entry in the playback log when it skips an incompatible media file. 7