Category Archives: Software Releases

Announcing Carousel 6.0

Tightrope Media Systems announces the release of Carousel 6.0, a major software update to the Carousel Digital Signage System. Carousel 6.0 includes a number of new features that improve the Template Editor used in the bulletin creation process, the utility of Alert Bulletins, and the functionality of the Remote Data Adapter.
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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 You can find the [...]
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Announcing Carousel 5.1.7 and 5.2.2

We are excited to announce our last two releases of Carousel for 2008! The Carousel 5.1.7 release has a short list of resolved issues, but it packs a punch!  Most significantly, we have decreased the bandwidth usage resulting in less traffic on your network. In Carousel 5.2.2 we improved the functionality of our RSS feeds by [...]
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Announcing Carousel 5.2.3

We are proud to announce the release of Carousel 5.2.3! This release contains resolutions to some conditional bugs, seemly occurring only sometimes, under a full moon, in certain time zones. Obviously I’m kidding, but honestly these pests are our favorite to squish, release, and dare I say forget. Among this special breed were the analog clock [...]
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TRMS Labs

The development team at Tightrope is excited to announce the availability of TRMS Labs, a new website to house our open source projects and utilities. For the site’s launch, we have three projects available: Cablecast SuperCopy: A plugin for our Cablecast automation system to duplicate a day’s schedule far out into the future. Carousel RDA Tester: A sample [...]
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Announcing Carousel 5.1.7 and 5.2.2

We are excited to announce our last two releases of Carousel for 2008! The Carousel 5.1.7 release has a short list of resolved issues, but it packs a punch!  Most significantly, we have decreased the bandwidth usage resulting in less traffic on your network. In Carousel 5.2.2 we improved the functionality of our RSS feeds by optimizing [...]
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Cablecast 4.8.0 Open Beta for SX owners

Greetings Cablecast SX Owners, As many of you may have experienced, the first release of the Cablecast SX video servers hasn’t been as smooth of a ride as we had hoped. The development staff at Tightrope have been hard at work on a new release of Cablecast with the goal of addressing these issues. After many months [...]
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Announcing Carousel 5.1.6 and 5.2.1

Today we are releasing Carousel 5.1.6 and 5.2.1. In the 5.1.6 release we made modifications to the Template Editor, Alert Bulletins, Groups, and Picture Blocks. The 5.2.1 release includes improvements to the Template Editor, Carousel Screen Saver, and Digital Clock bulletins amongst others. We are excited about the new features added to the Template Editor which [...]
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