About
The RSS Ticker scrolls headlines from an RSS feed across your screen, like a news ticker on TV. Most news sites and blogs publish an RSS feed, usually linked in the page footer. Our Find RSS feed helper can find many feeds by website name. An example RSS feed: https://playsignage.com/feed/
If the RSS Ticker doesn’t fit your needs, try the alternative RSS viewers. Check out all RSS plugins.
Get Started
Add RSS Ticker to a slide
- Open the playlist and the slide where you want RSS Ticker
- Click RSS in the top toolbar and choose RSS Ticker
- Paste the address of your RSS feed (or use Find RSS feed)
- Adjust the settings on the right (see Options below)
- Click Publish
Options
Find RSS feed
A simple search to find an RSS feed. It has data for popular publications.
Feed URL
If you did not find the desired feed via the search (or the feed is not publicly available), you can paste the feed URL directly.
Include title
Typically each feed entry contains a title and a description. Depending on who publishes the feed and what information you find relevant, you can toggle title inclusion in the ticker.
Include description
Often description is a small excerpt of the article itself, typically it’s either too long or irrelevant for the ticker, but depending on the circumstances you may want to include it as well.
Feed entries to display
Specifies how many most recent feed items will be included in the ticker.
Refresh interval
Specifies how often the plugin will check the feed source for updates. The default value of 60 minutes is quite reasonable for most feeds.
Always on top
By default, the ticker is rendered as a separate element so that players don’t need to render the entire slide for each frame, but rather just the ticker itself. This is important, as most entry-level players cannot render the entire canvas at least 24 times per second for smooth scrolling. The drawback is that the ticker will be on top of other elements, which can be a problem if you want the ticker to scroll under a logo, for example.
- Auto – Player will automatically determine if it should be on top.
- Yes – Smoother scrolling (see above).
- No – Depending on the player’s hardware acceleration capabilities, the ticker may struggle.
FAQ
My player can’t render the ticker smoothly if Always on top is set to “No”, but I still need to scroll it under an element.
Depending on the circumstances, you may be able to use the fact that sub-playlists are always rendered on top of other elements, including tickers. For example, to scroll a ticker under a BBC logo, make the logo a sub-playlist with just 1 slide set to play forever. Our BBC logo is 267×200 pixels, so we created a playlist with that aspect ratio, set its only slide to play forever and added the logo to cover the entire canvas. Then we went back to the main playlist and added the logo playlist as a sub-playlist, so the ticker scrolls underneath it.
What happens if my player doesn’t have an Internet connection?
The player will store the feed in a temporary cache after the first successful load. If the device does not have an internet connection on the first load, the plugin will not be visible. Subsequent loads will display a feed from the previous successful load until the next update is successful.
Where do I find alternative RSS plugins?
Check out this article: Alternative RSS Viewers.
Is the digital signage RSS Ticker the same as the Ticker?
No. The RSS Ticker shows a feed based on the RSS standard, whereas the Ticker shows simple text that you type in.
