RSS Feed

With the «RSS Feed» app you display posts from any RSS feed on your screen, e.g. news, blog entries or updates from your website.

Bring current news to your display without typing it out. The feed is reloaded automatically, either as a post with image and text or as a ticker.

Here's how RSS Feed looks on the screen, examples from real use:

• An active revolutionSCREEN account with access to my.rstv.app.
• The address of an RSS feed, e.g. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton.rss.
• At least one configured screen.

In the sidebar on the left, click «Apps» and at the top «zum App-Store» (to the Appstore).

Scroll to the «Alle» (All) list and click the «RSS Feed» tile. Use the category buttons to narrow down the list.

The app's detail view opens. If it is not yet installed, first click «Installiere» (Install). Then click «Neue Instanz» (New instance). «App Guide» opens a quick guide.

Under «Apps › Meine Apps» (My apps) you see all instances of the app as tiles. Use «Neue Instanz» (New instance) at the top right to create another one, and click a tile to open an existing one.

In the editor, hover over the title and click the pencil to give the instance a name. A new instance shows «Kein Name angegeben» (No name given) in red until then. At the top right you choose whether the preview appears in portrait or landscape.

On the left are all settings, on the right you immediately see in the live preview how the instance looks on the screen. Use the arrow next to the card to collapse the settings.

• URL: address of the RSS feed.
• Layout: arrangement of image and text, e.g. «Image Left, Text Right».
• Logo: select your own logo via «Bilder» (Images).
• Text / background color: colors for the font and background. Use × to reset a color.
• Primary / secondary font: fonts for the title and text.
• Language: language of the display, e.g. for the date.
• Posts: number of posts shown.
• Duration: display time per post in seconds.
• Default image: fallback image when a post contains no image of its own.
• Stretch image: fills the image area completely; images may be cropped in the process.
• Show QR Code: displays a QR-Code to the original post.
• Ticker: shows the posts as a scrolling ticker instead of a post with image.

RSS Feed shows several posts one after another per instance. When you place the instance in a playlist or layout, you set how long it runs via the element duration. To do so, click the element's duration. This logic applies to all apps with several posts per instance.

In the «Elementdauer bearbeiten!» (Edit element duration) window, the toggle decides between two variants. It is usually called «pro Post» (per post), for presentations «pro Slide» (per slide). Use «Confirm» to apply the setting.

Variant 1: toggle OFF (total duration)
The set time applies to the whole instance. Example 00:01:00: The instance runs for one minute. The posts change in sequence during this time and start again from the beginning if needed. So not necessarily all posts appear.

Variant 2: toggle ON (duration per post)
The set time applies to each post. Example 00:00:10 with 12 posts: Each post appears for exactly 10 seconds, the instance runs for 2 minutes in total. The list then shows «pro Post» (per post) or «pro Slide» (per slide) below the duration.

Save the instance at the top right with «Speichern & Schliessen» (Save & close).

Add to a playlist: Open the playlist, select the «Apps» tab on the right, click the app and then the instance. The instance is added immediately.

Add to a layout: Open the layout and click the pencil at the desired section.

In the «Inhalt für Abschnitt bearbeiten» (Edit content for section) window, use «Inhalt hinzufügen» (Add content) to add the instance. On the right of each element you set the schedule via «Täglich» (Daily).

Then click «Veröffentlichen» (Publish) in the playlist or layout. As long as it shows «Entwurf, Veröffentlichung erforderlich» (Draft, publishing required), the screen still shows the old state.