Xibo - durations & Twitter

[craynerd]

Hi guys

I`m slowly getting there with Xibo now and have it setup and running with a test display over our school network. In my last message I asked about streaming live TV news and with the other thread on Anyone using Xibo, I`ve managed to stream Sky News. I`m still just massively confused by the "duration" option in each region timeline. Its obvious if you are creating a playlist in that area that the duration is how long it stays on before it moves to the next media but what happens if you only have one media piece in place? So for example, I have sky news - should that be on for the full day 86400? Or what happens if I only put that on for 200, does that mean every 200 seconds it will refresh the connection which is good just in case it goes down or whatever? Also, does the duration of each region need to total to the same value - my understanding is that if you schedule one layout after another, will it just flip when the time is set OR will it wait for all regions of the first layout to finish.

 

I`m rambling - but I`m not clear on the duration side of things!

 

I know Xibo hasn`t got a twitter media link directly in it and we really want a section for our twitter feed. Any links mentioning this are very old and talk about twitters old RSS feed and using that. Things seem to have changed and I still can`t get anything to work. Is anyone displaying a twitter feed - if so, how?

 

Chris

[fairm010]

We only use one form of media on our Xibo setups and I use the time of 3600 across the board.

[craynerd]

Yes, I can imagine this is more obvious when it is full screen with one media type but in a split screen I`m not clear how it works.

[Boredguy]

With a 2 region layout, which ever region has the longest total duration is king. This is based on my experience so far.

 

Region 1 is your Sky Feed set to 3600

 

Region 2 is your twitter webpage set to 1800.

 

As Region 1 has the longest time, and there is only a single item per region, then your twitter page will actually display for 3600 before it reloads.

 

If your Region 2 has Twitter webpage set to 1800 and News webpage set to 1800, then it will display both pages for the full duration and then the whole screen will refresh after 3600 and start again