Author Archives: JJ Parker
Publishing a calendar from iCal into Carousel
Carousel’s EDS feature can read in iCal calendars from the internet or other calendaring systems. I have show in past posts how to get your google calendar into Carousel. In this example, I’ll show you how to publish your local iCal calendar on your Mac desktop so Carousel can display it.
Basically we need to ‘publish’ [...]
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Troubleshooting RSS feeds in Carousel
When RSS feeds are not updating in Carousel the usual suspect is the network. It can also be the data in the feed or the bulletin layout. This will help you troubleshoot why RSS is not updating.
1.) Can’t create a RSS bulletin
If you get the error: “Could not read the feed URL. Please check that [...]
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Using views to link an EDS proxy database
Carousel’s Event Display feature integrates with many different data sources. But we can’t integrate with them all. And sometimes, even the ones we do integrate with are not what we want.
I was working with a customer who had a Dean Evens EMS database, but they wanted to use a custom field as the event start [...]
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Zeplay presentation at MinneDemo
We recently gave a presentation of our new Zeplay multi-channel instant replay server at MinneDemo. MinneDemo is the Twin Cities’ premier technology demo and networking event. We were very excited to showcase our newest product.
This video was shot with my little FlipMino HD, so the quality is pretty bad.
Zeplay presentation at MinneDemo from JJ Parker [...]
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Carousel: Player bandwidth
We get a lot of questions about how much bandwidth Carousel uses. The answer is… It depends! This is not very helpful. So, I’ll explain what data Carousel communicates with the players to give you an estimate of how much bandwidth your Carousel signage network will use.
Carousel players pull and cache their playlists and content from the [...]
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Carousel: Using authenticated web sites for RSS, web page snapshots
We have a few customers who would like to display web content in Carousel that is protected by Windows Authentication. This means that if you go the web site it asks you to log in with your user name and password, if you are logged into windows with your domain account then it will authenticate [...]
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Announcing our new Training Lead
Tightrope is happy to announce that we have hired Brook Grubs as our Training Lead. She will be training end users and dealers how to use our products, creating training material, and further developing our training department. Brook's experience training and creating training material made her a great fit for Tightrope. We all look forward [...]
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Announcing our new Support Technician
We are happy to announce that we have brought on board a 'new, old guy' this week. Chad Gartner has been hired as a technician for our support team. As some of you may remember, Chad was on staff with Tightrope a few years ago. Chad will be mostly 2nd level support and running our [...]
Setting up an external media store in Carousel