Display Content from Textfile

Just have a text item on your layout then edit the text item as required.
Set the duration of the text item to 30 seconds or so and the collection
interval on the client to 30 seconds as well.

Otherwise you'll need to render out html and embed a webpage there

Ok. And can i update the text item with a command prompt?

You can via the API - not directly from a command prompt.

I got the API working and listing the Regions works fine. Found out the one i'd wish to update the text. Had a look at your guide and the wiki, but could not find out how to update the text. This is what i get from the script:

Media ID 2c9675c09198bbb7a1812cdccceff540
    Type: text
    Duration: 30

Media List Complete

Could you post how to update the with a simple text string please?

Thanks a lot!

You need to use the LayoutRegionMediaEdit method with the region and lkid
you retrieved already to edit the existing text item, or delete the
existing text item and add a new one

Is the LayoutGetXlf Method already implemented? It says 'Unknown Method'

You shouldn't need to get the entire layout Xlf - but no I don't think it
is

ok and how do i find out which part i do have to update?

You enumerate the media items in the region, and then update the
appropriate one.

The tutorial shows you how to list region contents etc

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~alexharrington/xibo/api-testsuite/view/head:/core/api-testsuite/RegionTimelineTests.py#L98

Shows adding a text item to a region timeline

Thank you for the information. tried do adapt my script like this but still doenst work :(

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Script to upload a Video to the Xibo CMS and replace
# an old copy of it in a region

# Imports
import os
from xml.dom import minidom
import XiboAPI

api = XiboAPI.XiboAPI()

#Text Update
try:

    params = [('layoutid', '5'),
        ('regionid', '53d8b21ba16d3'),
        ('mediaid', '2c9675c09198bbb7a1812cdccceff540'),
        ('xlf', '<?xml version="1.0"?><layout id="5"><region id="53d8b21ba16d3"><media id="2c9675c09198bbb7a1812cdccceff540"><text>BLABLABLA</text></media></region></layout>')]

    api.callMethod('LayoutRegionMediaEdit', params)

except Exception, e:
    print e

You only pass in the xlf for that media item, not for the entire layout.
Look at the example I linked to see what you need to pass in for text

Got it working. Some methods in the api don't seem to work like LayoutRegionMediaEdit and LayoutRegionMediaDelete. When i delete the whole Region and create a new one with text media in it it works.