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DEVOS -- Video Portal System
RSS
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a popular way for news aggrators (e.g. PBS, CNN,
New York Times, etc.) to distribute news and other information. A properly formated
RSS feed ends with ".rss", although some ".xml" feeds will work with DEVOS.
Examples (may not be current):
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CNN Top Stories: http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss
NPR Top Stories: http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?id=1001
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/rss (list of feeds)
The RSS reader only uses the <title> and <description> values in each RSS <item>.
Images, links and formating is ignored. For minimal example, see
http://discovervideo.com/rss/dv.xml
Displaying Signage
Click on any created sign to open it. Copy the URL for that sign and open it on any
computer or Soft Top Box. For Samsung Smart-TV panels, you should use the
Discover Video Signage App.
Connect a computer to your display using your preferred method (VGA/DVI/HDMI)
and open the listed Web Version URL in a web browser (IE preferred).
To automatically start the display when the computer starts, follow these steps:
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Use notepad or similar to create a file called "videosign.bat" and insert a single
line in the file:
start iexplore -k [the video sign Web URL]
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example: iexplore -k [the video sign Web URL]
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Save the file. Double-click on it to test it. It should open IE full screen and
your video sign should be displayed. Press Alt+F4 to exit
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Create a shortcut in your Windows startup folder, or create a startup task that
runs this file. To create a startup task, go to your control panel, select System
and Security, select Administrative Tools, select Task Scheduler, select Create
Basic Task, give it a name such as "Video Sign Startup", select Next, and set
the task to run the program "videosign.bat" when the computer starts. Set
required security permission if required.
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