Setting up your BrightSign 3 or 4 series device

This article should be used as a guide to assist you with setting up your Brightsign device to work with Signagelive. The instructions will take you through installing and configuring Signagelive from the devices’ out the box state. 

Step 1: Check and update firmware

Begin by powering on your supported BrightSign device without a micro SD card inserted, this will lead the Player to power on and show the hardware information and the current Firmware version on the connected display.

We recommend that you update your BrightSign device to the appropriate firmware before configuring Signagelive, you can download the firmware files below and instructions for the update process can be found here.

Download Recommended Firmware

• LS3 - Firmware 8.2.72
• HD3 - Firmware 8.2.72
• XD3 - Firmware 8.2.72
• XT3 - Firmware 8.2.72
• HO3 - Firmware 8.2.72
• HS3 - Firmware 8.2.72
• XD4 - Firmware 8.2.72
• XT4 - Firmware 8.2.72
• HD4 - Firmware 8.2.72
• HS4 - Firmware 8.2.72
• LS4 - Firmware 8.2.72

Step 2: Generating the configuration files for your Brightsign

Use the Signagelive BrightSign config tool to set the timezone settings on your BrightSign Player. To do this, you will require the following:

• BrightSign Player
• Micro SD card (formatted as per this guide here)
• Laptop and micro SD card reader

Follow the steps below to configure the settings of your BrightSign Player:

1. Open the BrightSign Config Tool
2. In the Configuration section, select the timezone of the Player you are configuring
3. Press the ‘Generate’ button under the timezone dropdown menu.

• This will create a file named ‘settings.json’ which will be added to your downloads

By default, the player is configured to connect using the ethernet port and DHCP. Should you need to change the network settings or are using the Brightsign wifi module, please see the optional network configuration setup at the end of this article then continue with the Signagelive setup.

Step 3: Imaging your SD card and deploying the player

1. Download the latest Signagelive Client here.
2. Open the Signagelive App zip folder on your laptop and extract all to the root of the micro SD card. (The "root" is the directory you open to when you first open the micro SD card)
3. Add the settings.json file from your downloads folder to the data folder on the micro SD card.
4. Optionally if you generated one add the network.json file to the data folder.
5. Remove the micro SD card from your laptop and insert it into the powered off BrightSign Player
6. Power on your BrightSign Player

Your player will now launch and after downloading its content, will show the Signagelive activation code. This should then be activated on your Signagelive Network using one of your active licences and when the player next successfully performs its content check, you’ll see the green tick appear to let you know the display has been successfully connected to Signagelive.

For further information on Activating your player, please see this corresponding article.

What will be on my micro SD card when configuring all the above?

Your micro SD card should have the following structure:

• data
• settings.json
• network.json - optional if you configured the network
• sandboxUnsupportedUrls.json - included in .zip package
• node_modules
• scripts
• autorun.brs
• Index.html

Optional Steps - Network Configuration

1. Open the BrightSign Config Tool
2. Configure the Networking options for your Player, choosing either:
   • If choosing Static IP, enter all other configuration options

• DHCP
• Static IP
• Select your Connection Type from the following options
  • If choosing Wifi, add SSID and Passphrase details

• Ethernet
• Wifi - Requires optional Wifi Adapter Module
• Press Generate

• This will create a file named ‘network.json’ which will be added to your downloads
• Add the network.json files to the data folder on the micro SD card.

Optional Steps - Synchronise your BrightSign devices

If you intend to synchronise your BrightSign devices then please check the guidance here