Where can I find the News Apps?
You can find a selection of News Apps within the Signagelive Marketplace:
CNN
BBC
Al Jazeera
CBC Canada
Yahoo News
Sydney Morning Herald
Philstar
News.com.au
New York Times
China Daily
The Guardian
The Straits Times
La Gazzetta dello Sport
Repubblica
TGCom24
RTBF (French language)
VRT (Dutch language)
NTV
Bild
Each of these can be used to show feeds and articles from your selected source on a constantly updating basis. Once you have located the News Apps in the Marketplace, you can add the ones you like to your network by clicking on the blue + button.
If you aren’t sure how to use, or where to find the Marketplace, please see this article.
Please Note:
To allow these apps to work on a secure network please ensure that Signagelive Proxy IPs are allowed through the firewall. For information on how to do this please see the relevant section in this article
How do I Use/Customise them?
Your News Apps will work like any other Media Asset. Add one (or more) to a playlist and enter the Asset Properties to customise them.
Inside Asset Properties, you will be able to:
Choose a specific feed topic. For instance: Business, Technology, Politics etc
Set the Article Display Time (How long each article in the feed should display on screen for)
Change the background colours to suit your personal preference
Change the colour of the text, titles and feed content
Change the Publication Date Format (How do you wish the date of each feed post to be displayed)
Once your App is configured, simply save your playlist to automatically update your screen, or move on to the Publish page to push this new widget to any of the player on your network.
Please Note
The different News Apps offer different feed selections, and some News Apps will only offer a single feed