is there a way to configure the system that the CMS-server is downloading a static jpg (from a webcam) every x minutes? If I set a webpage region in the layout, the client is downloading the picture from the web and not from the CMS-server.
I ask because our displays are in an isolated VLAN without WAN (internet) connectivity. They are able to reach the CMS-server which is located in a different VLAN. This works well with the RSS and the weather plugin but not with the webcam jpg.
Yes you can use a External Image column type in a dataset. Add a row to that dataset, and in the External Image type column, put the URL you want the CMS to download the image from. Then use a ticker or dataset view to show that downloaded image in your layout.
Great, haven’t seen these options in the datasets before.
Found out that we can make this way a nice fade-transition as well for a picture slideshow with the internal library image option. Wonder why image transitions work for ticker/datasets but not for images on windows players?
As a work around you might be able to do something with a random number as you suggest.
You could make the image field a formula type, and use the MySQL concatenate function to concatenate the actual URL, and “?” and the NOW() function so it would be a different URL on each run.