Plugins & Widgets

All the info you need to help using plugins and widgets on your embed signage account.

27 articles in this collection
Written by Drew Harding and Dan Thody

Widgets

How to display Seenspire feeds via the Content Streaming widget

Seenspire delivers relevant, dynamic & engaging content via URL content feeds. Here's how you can get that feed onto your signage with embed

Written by Drew Harding
Updated over a week ago

Live news widgets

Display live news with this widget from either SkyNews or NBC

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago

Date Widget

Learn how to add and customise the date widget

Written by Drew Harding
Updated over a week ago

Time Widget

See how to add and configure the time widget

Written by Drew Harding
Updated over a week ago

Weather Widget

See how to add and customise the weather widget to show today's weather and forecast data

Written by Drew Harding
Updated over a week ago

Twitter Widget

We show you how you can display a hashtag search or user timeline from Twitter in your layouts.

Written by Drew Harding
Updated over a week ago

RSS / Text Scroller Widget

Learn how to add and customise the RSS / Text scroller widget

Written by Drew Harding
Updated over a week ago

TFL Tube Status Widget

Show live London Underground Tube Status information in your layouts with this widget.

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago

Website Widget

See how to use and configure the website widget to display website content in your layouts

Written by Drew Harding
Updated over a week ago

YouTube Widget

Use the YouTube widget to play videos and live streams directly from YouTube

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago

IPTV Widget

Use this widget to display UDP and HLS streams within your layouts (BrightSign, Android and ONELAN only)

Written by Drew Harding
Updated over a week ago

Source Input Widget

Use this widget to display an external source such as HDMI into a zone. Widget is device specific

Written by Drew Harding
Updated over a week ago

Plugins

Dynamic Data Plugin

Dynamic Data is a plugin that allows users to extract data from an Excel/CSV file, JSON or XML feed and display this in their layouts.

Written by Drew Harding
Updated over a week ago

External Communications Plugin

The External Communications plugin allows users to communicate with external devices via RS232 or TCP.

Written by Drew Harding
Updated over a week ago

How to set up a TCP connection using the External Communications Plugin

Learn how to set up a TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) connection using the External Communications Plugin

Written by Drew Harding
Updated over a week ago

VIDEO: Room Booking Plugin

Watch this video to learn how to use the Room Booking Plugin

Written by Drew Harding
Updated over a week ago

Dynamic Data

Upload Excel File

Display data from an excel spreadsheet using the Dynamic Data plugin

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago

Upload JSON feed

Display your JSON feed within a zone using the Dynamic Data plugin

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago

Upload XML feed

Find out how to display data from an XML URL using the Dynamic Data plugin

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago

Upload webpage tabular data

Find out how to display data from a webpage using the Dynamic Data plugin

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago

Add to Layout

Follow these steps to add your dynamic data to your layout

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago

Format data

Find out how you can format the data you have added to your Layout

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago

Updating Data

Find out how to update your data when using the Dynamic Data plugin

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago

Queries Explained

This article will list and explain all of the queries available within the dynamic data configuration settings

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago

Formatting Fields

You can pre-determine a datas format depending on the data by formatting the field.

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago

Add custom columns

Associate media or a webpage to a row of data by adding custom columns

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago

Device Specific Data

Show specific data on a specific device(s) all from one source and one layout by following these steps

Written by Dan Thody
Updated over a week ago