Product Updates

• Web portal playlist page search searches for playlists in all folders now, instead of filtering current playlists
• Transparent video support via webm

• Our playlists API endpoint used to return a thumbnail for every playlist when requesting all, which slowed down loading teams with many playlists. Now, if a team has more than 20 playlists, we don't send the thumbnail of the playlists, and the browser will lazy-load the thumbnail, when the user scroll, into the view. The thumbnails are also cached on the browser side.
• Enforce Two-Factor Authentication for your team. Under Team, team owners can force the entire team to use two-factor authentication (2FA).
• Editor grouped object actions: Align only between selected objects and center on the first selected object.
• YouTube plugin now supports YouTube Shorts

• Default Font Settings - You can now set a default font family and default font size for new text assets. Go to your profile page under Default Values to choose your preferred settings. New text elements will automatically use these defaults, saving time and ensuring consistent branding.
• Amazon Signage Stick, New Remote Control Features - New features are now available for your Amazon Signage Sticks. You can remotely turn the TV on and off and easily view the device MAC address directly in PlaySignage. These improvements make managing and monitoring your signage sticks smoother and more convenient.
• QR Code App in Playlist Editor - The new QR Code app is now available directly in the playlist editor. You can quickly generate QR codes for URLs, plain text, Wi-Fi networks, or email addresses and add them to your playlists with ease.
• Account Statements - Account statement downloads have been added to the billing section. You can now easily download clear, detailed statements of your transactions and invoices from my.playsignage.com/billing.

Sub-Playlists – Advance Parent Option Sub-playlists now include an option to advance the parent playlist after playing a single slide (regardless of the slide’s duration). This gives you more precise control over playlist flow and sequencing.

Weather Asset – Ungroup Single Day Block The single-day weather asset block can now be ungrouped into its individual base components. This allows you to freely rearrange, resize, and style each element (temperature, icon, day name, etc.) for fully custom weather displays.

New Slide Condition: Network A new slide condition type called Network has been added. You can now show or hide slides based on whether the player is online or offline — perfect for creating reliable fallback content or offline-specific messages.

Amazon Signage Stick – Remote Pairing & Batch Wi-Fi Signage Stick updates now support remote pairing of remotes and batch Wi-Fi configuration changes. These enhancements simplify large-scale deployment and ongoing management of your Amazon Signage Sticks.

Screen Capture – Live View Screen Capture now supports Live View! After taking a screenshot, click the Refresh button to auto-update the image on the fly — as fast as every 1 second. This makes it much easier to monitor what is currently playing on your screens in near real-time, troubleshoot issues, or verify dynamic content.

Group & Schedule Screenshot - You can now take a single screenshot of an entire Group or Schedule. All screens in the group/schedule are captured at once, with offline screens clearly marked as “Offline”. A huge time-saver for larger deployments.

News Plugin - We’ve added a powerful new News Plugin! Display live news on your digital signage by searching and selecting major sources (BBC, The New York Times, Bloomberg, ESPN, Fox News, Google News, and many more) or by adding any custom RSS feed. Fully customizable with layout options, article rotation, interval timing, portrait/landscape mode, publication time, full/maximized images, and a QR code so viewers can continue reading on their mobile device.

• Added stroke and shadow option to text in our Weather plugin.
• Added Preserve Size option in default values for adding images to the canvas
• Updated the /dashboard 
• Added group filter in /screens
• Officially launched the PWA app
• Added the ability to see where a file is used (Library)
• Added a feature so that you can edit alerts in bulk
• Added QR code to the link screen page
• Added option to limit alerts outside normal business hours
• Added option to switch between teams from any page in my.playsignage.com

• Transfer Screen lets you transfer a screen from one team to another team that you are a member of.
• The group page now shows how many schedules are created for a group
• Add or overwrite slide conditions in bulk edit mode.

• Ability to restrict assets in a playlist to full-HD (to avoid overloading non-4 player with 4k files)
• Plugins (RSS reader, Weather, Facebook Post, Digital Clock) default to the user's language
• Stroke and Shadow options for the Ticker
• If slides have only one asset that is full-screen, the editor will pre-select that asset

• Slide settings are in a dedicated tab in the editor, and selected object settings are also. Using icons for tab labels instead of names

• Playlists can be cloned to other teams

• Added new feature, Transfer Screen - Move a screen from one team to another
• Changed the group page, so that you can see how many schedules are added in a group
• Added an option to overwrite slide conditions when using bulk edit in slides

• Added automation to restrict assets in a playlist to only FullHD, when published to a non-4K media player.
• Changed behavior for RSS Reader, Weather, FB, and Digital Clock so that the language is default the same as the user profile.
• Added stroke and shadow option to the Ticker.
• Automation added where media players are periodically check downloaded files for corruption and re-download those that can not be verified.

• Added a new feature that will make ad showings easier. Check out Ad Cycle.
• Updated Tizen players; Tizen players have a new option to use AVPlay as the video player instead of the default HTML video player. AVPlay is a native video player in the Tizen operating system, allowing for a lower-level integration. 
• Updated Time & Date; Additional date formats for digital clock plugin (including ISO date formats)
• Updated Slide Conditions; Slide conditions are re-evaluated every minute, so if they expire, the player will proceed to the next slide

• Restrict Login Methods - Restrict your team members to only use approved login methods like Microsoft, OKTA, etc.
• Webhook added to alerts.
• Download playlist assets - Download a file with all assets and links to those assets.
• Search in playlists has changed so that results are also shown from folders.
• Bypass Cloudflare - Added failover in case Cloudflare has an outage.

• Replace Assets in a Playlist. You can now replace an image that is used in multiple slides easily.
• Bulk edit. Edit multiple slides' duration, transition, background, etc., with only a few clicks.

• Added support for Tizen 7 OS

• Added support to view serial number, MAC address, and local ip address for Brightsign players.
• Added support to view the version number on Tizen SmartTV's

• Assets uploaded to the library will now be processed in a queue
• Added new role, SuperAdmin (Teams)

• Added support for editing a playlist name from the editor
• Added a shortcut to go directly to the editor when creating a playlist
• Added name option when cloning a playlist

• Added tree view in the library

• New Android app release on Android SDK 34, solving issues with UI hanging on larger downloads

• Kiosk mode supported on Raspberry PI
• Analytics added support for storing website plugin playback
• The publish button now shows yellow when there are unpublished changes in a playlist

• Windows, macOS, and Linux app release 4.0.0 built on Electron 30 (Chrome 124, Node 20)
• New Windows 64-bit app released
• Website pre-loading improved.

• Added Canva plugin
• Added functionality to the Website Plugin, so that executing scripts can either happen before the slide runs or when the slide runs.
• Added widescreen support for Samsung Tizen

• Released APP version 3.2
• LG WebOS application.
• Microsoft Power BI plugin.
• Group synchronization option  – all screens in a group play the playlist in sync.
• Improved scripting support on Android (script executed during preload).
• Virtual clock (clock is synchronized with our server instead of using the operating system time).
• Rotation support for GIF images.
• Playlist references now also show which other playlists reference the playlist (as a sub-playlist).

• Released APP version 3.1
• Google Drive plugin.
• History for each slide edit.
• Slide shuffling functionality.
• Ability to schedule display on/off for each weekday separately (only devices with HDMI-CEC support)
• Ability to share a playlist with a team (previously only other users)
• Better handling of ultra-high resolution images (previously was limited to 80 megapixels, or 9000x9000px images)
• Optimizations for single slide playlists.

• Released APP version 3.0.8
• Weekday slide condition support.
• Multi-level playlist in playlist plugin support (nested playlists).
• HDMI / Video input plugin.
• Background option for Video.
• Ability to trigger the next slide when the sub-playlist completes it’s cycle.
• Android uses WebView to render website plugins instead of an iframe.
• Android supports website scripting.
• Stream plugin also supports the RTSP protocol on Android.

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• Released APP version 2.6
• Support for Trial screens.
• Google Drive support – you can now add files directly from your drive.
• YouTube closed captions load without a refresh.
• Bugfix for SVG files with a tint overlay on Android was not loading.
• Slide-in animations now account for the object’s stroke and shadow as well.
• Optimized video playback for Raspberry PI devices.

• Released APP version 2.4
• Twitter plugin launched.
• An ARM variant of the player can now run natively on new Mac M1 chips.
• Added a new icon on the playlist overview for assigned groups and schedules.
• Added size option so users can resize without breaking an object’s aspect ratio.
• Added an additional weather data provider (weatherapi.com) to the existing weatherbit.io.
• Option to create an analytics report in CSV in addition to the PDF one.
• Functionality to set default slide/screen values on your profile page for further customization.

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• Released APP version 2.1
• Added a new RSS reader plugin.
• Tizen TVs now support safety lock (disable/enable remote) management from the web portal.
• Feature: Continue the sub-playlist from the previous slide.
• Updated Windows/Linux/Mac application internal browser to the latest Chrome 89 (Electron v12.0.0).

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• Released APP version 1.22
• Released Samsung Tizen-based player software
• New slide condition type: show a slide only during the time of day
• New slide condition type: show a slide only on specific players
• SVG files can be colored
• The date/time plugin supports letter capitalization
• Improved startup logic for Android players

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• Released APP version 1.2
• Added tagging functionality
• Multi-team membership support
• Public API for tag management and screen commands
• Improved weather plugin accuracy
• Better alignment for the date/time plugin
• Italian, Portuguese, and French translations in the web portal

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• Released APP version 1.19
• Added Stream plugin
• Extended counter plugin, added extra options to count up/down from the moment the slide is shown
• Added an option to periodically refresh the website plugin
• Showing disc usage in player settings
• Native ARM Linux AppImage player support (Raspberry PI)
• Possible to add an individual audio file to play as the slide is shown
• More efficient logging on Windows, Mac, and Linux apps
• Timeline-based scheduling
• Giphy integration
• Pixabay integration

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• Released APP version 1.18
• The player starts with a dark loader to prevent white flash on screens
• Possibility to set a custom user agent for web plugin requests
• Updated Windows/Linux/Mac application internal browser to the latest Chrome 80 (Electron v8.0.0)
• Mac application is notarized (Catalina will no longer display a warning)
• Added .ttf and .otf font support
• Added .heic image file support (automatically converted to .jpg files)
• Eyedropper to pick a color in the editor
• If Windows registry editing is disabled and the user enables auto-launch, the player will send a warning to the user in the web portal
• Dynamic UUID parameter in website plugin URLs
• Hebrew language option for weather plugin

• Released APP version 1.17
• Added support for the German, Spanish, and Estonian languages
• Added support for CAPTIONS on YouTube
• Added Analytics (Proof of play)
• Added support for Animated GIF
• Added support for changing names on slides

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• Released APP version 1.16
• Added Two-Factor Authentication supporting multiple authenticators.
• Added support for HTML snippets in the Website plugin
• Added a new function to the count-down plugin to be able to do count-up also
• Added support for player-unique hardware ID in relation to better support

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• Released APP version 1.15
• Changes to Clock plugin – Now possible to do a transparent face
• Changes to the billing section – Now possible to update the credit card
• Changes to the billing section – Initiate payment from the transaction overview
• Changes to the library – Delete files directly from the editor
• Changes to the library – Create slides based on images now have settings for how to insert the images, plus the choice of a background color
• Added remote settings management for players
• Added additional information about player hardware
• Added player download progress bar on the screen page
• Reworked user authentication
• MediaRSS is now loaded asynchronously and not called back before the first item is loaded

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• Released APP version 1.14
• Added plugin Instagram Photo
• Added plugin Instagram#
• Added Royalty Free Image Library
• Added feature: Selecting multiple files
• Added plugin Random quote
• Added feature: iMove items from one folder to another
• Added the feature of remote clearing of cache on most players
• Added support for new file formats (WebP, BMP, Excel formats (Microsoft, Apple, and OpenOffice formats), zip, and eps.)
• Added support for Request Desktop Site in Android

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• Released APP version 1.13
• Added support for Android native support
• Added plugin, On this day
• Added plugin, Quote of the day
• Optimized counter and digital clock plugins
• An added audio option for playlists

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• Released APP version 1.12
• Added plugin Facebook Photo
• The incorrect hour calculation bug has been fixed in the counter widget
• Added support for preloading Twitter content
• Fixed a bug where RSS load failure caused an infinite retry loop
• Made it possible to use the native web view on Android devices
• Extension web views have allowed transparency-enabled
• The player now hides the previous slide if in the sub-playlist and the background is transparent
• Fixed a bug where audio was not played if scheduled in a sequence of playlists
• Disabled pinch zoom on electron
• Fixed a bug where a scheduled sequence playlist had no matching slides, next playlist was not triggered
• Possible to pause the audio for some slides

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• Released APP version 1.11
• Added plugin count-down
• Added feature background music in a playlist
• Added a guided tour for new users
• Added a feature where a user can set the grid size

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• Released APP version 1.1
• Added plugin for  MediaRSS
• Added plugin for RSS Ticker
• Added support for Raspberry PI

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• Released APP version 1.09
• Added a new feature, Screen Capture
• Added design templates repository
• Added design templates: Abstract, Company Presentation, Meet the Teachers, Business, Hours, and Meetings at the office
• Added a feature for cropping images
• Added layering for ticker and video

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• Released APP version 1.08
• Added feature Teams
• Added roles for team members

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• Released APP version 1.07
• Added feature Slide Stash
• Added feature Alerts

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