Upload large files

[alex]

You can upload via the API. If you’re of a technical nature there’s a working Python command line upload tool here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~alexharrington/xibo/140-rc1-upload/files/head:/apps/MediaUpload/

The GUI version was never implemented so don’t expect that to work.

For details of how to get it setup/configured you can work from the guide on API access which uses the same Python libraries to connect to the CMS:

Scripting Content Management - A Brief tour of the API (with example code)

EDIT: 1.8 has a new API and a new guide here: 1.8 API Introduction The following article is applicable to 1.7 Series. One common use case people put forward is that they want to update a particular piece of content in a layout automatically on a schedule. That could take the form of a video being updated on a daily basis, or an image. Since Xibo 1.5 series, there has been a “work in progress” OAuth authenticated API for scripting actions in the Xibo CMS. As of Xibo 1.6.0-rc1, there are enou…

Other than that no it’s not possible to add files to the CMS by FTP or any other means. Xibo doesn’t run well on shared hosting, precisely because you often can’t make the changes required to support it, or because it consumes too many resources and the hosting provider disables your account as a result.