Signagelive has an integration with the Vistar Media ad service platform, which allows you to display image and video content directly from Vistar Media onto your Signagelive Players.

There are two free apps available from the Signagelive Marketplace that you'll need to download in order to make use of Vistar with Signagelive - the Vistar Caching App and the Vistar Display App. Later in this article we'll detail what each of these apps do, but it's important to note that these apps are designed to be used as a part of a Multizone Layout.

Your Multizone Layout should contain two empty Schedulable Zones that will sit in front of one another, the Vistar Display App will sit in its own Playlist on top and behind this will sit the Caching App in its own Playlist also. See below for a more visual representation of how this will appear:

You will then assign a unique Playlist (one containing the Caching App and one containing the Display App) to each empty Schedulable Zone during step 2 of the Publishing stage. The Display App must be on the top Layer in the Layer Navigator.

Any Signagelive Players that support the Widget SDK method can make use of the Vistar Apps - at present this includes BrightSign, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, ChromeOS and Windows (note: this does not include the Legacy PC client).

Of the above-mentioned supported Players, all can serve images and videos (H.264 only) with no audio, however LG webOS 1.0, LG webOS 2.0 and Samsung Tizen 2.4 players can only serve images at this stage due to hardware and software restrictions:

As previously mentioned, there are two components that make up the configuration of displaying Vistar content on your Signagelive Players:

This app syncs with the Vistar Platform to dynamically retrieve all valid ads every hour and then cache them to storage. This app will need to run with the contents stored to the cache before starting ad playback; and this then therefore allows seamless transitions on supported media players. The app caches any valid assets for the next 30 hour period.

In Signagelive, the Vistar Caching App needs the following preferences:

These properties can be set by double clicking the Vistar Caching App on your playlist in Signagelive, then clicking the Properties tab. The Venue ID can also be referenced on the media player as reference code 2. To do so open the player details, click on the Player Site and Contact Details tab, enter the Venue ID on the Reference 2 field and save the details.

This handles the visual side of displaying the retrieved ad (video or image) and sending the proof of play or expiry callback depending on whether it has succeeded or failed.

You'll first need two unique Playlists, each containing one of the apps:

With your Playlists created, you'll now need a Layout with two empty Schedulable Zones as we showed you earlier in this article. For more information on publishing Layouts with Schedulable Zones, please see this article.

Upon publishing your Layout with your two Playlists containing your Vistar Apps assigned to each Schedulable Zone, your Vistar ads should begin populating and displaying on your Signagelive Players.