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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Bandwidth throttling in Carousel
JJ posted an interesting article about bandwidth throttling in Carousel. This is a timely article given the bandwidth optimizations made in Carousel 5.2.2. Simply, this article explains how to manage the bandwidth used by your digital signage network if you do not have QOS routers.
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Setting up an external media store in Carousel