Version 1.12 of Play Digital Signage brings another social plugin, a native app for Linux and a long list of fixes.
Facebook Photo
The new Facebook Photo plugin loads the photos from a Facebook page into a photo grid on your screen. When you post new photos, your screens show them, with no extra work. It’s easy to set up, and it looks great.
Native Linux player
Open source has a special place in our hearts, and Linux is a great platform for digital signage: you can customise every part of it, from the loading screen to switching off pop-ups and updates in the middle of the day. Read the Linux setup guide.
More reliable playback
This release also fixes and improves a lot under the hood:
- Twitter content is preloaded, so it’s ready when the slide starts.
- Android devices can use their own native web view.
- Web views in extensions can be transparent, and the player hides the previous slide in a sub-playlist when the background is transparent.
- Audio can be paused for some slides.
What’s in version 1.12
- Added the Facebook Photo plugin
- Fixed an incorrect hour calculation in the counter widget
- Added preloading of Twitter content
- Fixed a bug where a failed RSS load caused an endless retry loop
- Made it possible to use the native web view on Android devices
- Allowed transparency in extension web views
- The player now hides the previous slide in a sub-playlist when the background is transparent
- Fixed a bug where audio did not play when scheduled in a sequence of playlists
- Disabled pinch zoom in the Electron app
- Fixed a bug where the next playlist was not triggered when a scheduled sequence playlist had no matching slides
- Made it possible to pause the audio for some slides
See every release since 2018 in the release notes.
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