Setting up an external media store in Carousel
We’ve had a few customers running Carousel with a lot of videos, or just really bug signage systems. They have run into a problem of running of out disk storage for Carousel’s media directory on their base installs. I’m going to show you how to move the media directory and re-configre Carousel to use it.
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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 ‘publish’ [...]
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Summer ‘09 Pre-Configured Channels for Carousel Now Available
Summer ‘09 Collection
We’re so excited about our new channel designs, we want everyone to have one! All pre-made channels are now available for just $200. That means you can be up and running with a beautiful new Carousel channel in no time. Each of our pre-configured channels are JAM-PACKED with a channel layout, [...]
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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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Announcing Carousel 5.2.6: New Weather!
Carousel 5.2.6 has been officially released!
To those of you who have been patiently waiting for your weather bulletins and crawls to update, your wait is over! Carousel now retrieves weather data via WeatherBug rather than the National Weather Service FTP site. Gone are the days of battling the firewall to open the FTP ports, as [...]
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Announcing Carousel 5.2.5
Today we’re excited to announce the release of Carousel 5.2.5!
This release contains several usability and stability improvements. Specifically, touching on the Clone Tool, Interactive, Display Engine, and the updating of RSS, web picture and clock bulletins. Check out the release notes for the nitty-gritty.
To request this update, please email our support team at support@trms.com. In [...]
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New Cablecast Release: 4.8.3
Today we’re happy to announce the release of Cablecast 4.8.3.
A few highlights:
The SX and VOD servers are better about memory and thread management, particularly when there are a lot of shows to transcode to VOD.
Projects area of WebUI now works again.
Various minor fixes to web service, X-list, public site, and block copy
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Tightrope Appoints Eric Henry as CEO and Jim Morical as Chief Business Development Officer