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@github-actions github-actions released this 17 Aug 04:30
· 25 commits to main since this release
v1.8.0
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Apps, a Designer, screen layouts, and emergency messages.

  • New: apps — 21 boards that fill themselves from a live source instead of a file you upload: Instagram and Facebook walls, a follower counter for each, YouTube (videos, Shorts, live streams and playlists), Weather (three styles, seven days, no API key needed), Google Calendar, Google Slides, Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint, Power BI, Canva, Live TV with adverts, Split Screen, Simple Clock, World Clock, QR Code, Motivational Quotes, and Countdown / Count-up
  • New: Designer — build a board from scratch with a proper shape library, live widgets, typed QR codes and effects, then keep what you make in a team template library with filters to find it again
  • New: screen layouts — divide a screen into zones, each one playing anything the manager can serve, so a single TV can show a video, a menu and a ticker at once
  • New: emergency and flash messages — put an urgent notice on one screen or on every screen at once. Screens leave their playlist immediately and pick it up again the moment the message is cleared
  • Templates are now sorted into categories, with extra packs downloaded only when you want them rather than shipped with the app
  • Fixed: the zone editor crashed when it was opened; an emergency message could be unreadable for two separate reasons; the weather data provider is now credited as its licence requires; and a hard review of Motivational Quotes turned up six defects, one of them serious

Your screens

The Android TV, LG webOS and Samsung Tizen players are rebuilt at v1.8.0 but their behaviour is unchanged. The new boards are drawn by the manager and sent to the screen, so your TVs will show them without being updated. Updating the players is optional, and only keeps the whole fleet on one version number.

Downloads

Platform File
Windows Signage-Manager-Setup-1.8.0.exe
Android TV / Fire TV signage-tv-player.apk
LG webOS signage-webos-player.ipk
Samsung Tizen signage-tizen.wgt

Upgrading from v1.5.2 or earlier on Android TV needs a one-time clean install (adb uninstall com.signage.tvplayer), because builds before v1.5.3 were signed with a throw-away key.

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