RSS Feeds Updating?

Asked by Chris Allen

How often do RSS feeds update?

I've made an RSS feed for our organisation with general messages that I'd like to display on the digital sign. Xibo displays the feed the first time but doesnt appear to update as the feed changes?

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Best Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said :
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Hi Chris

The client currently caches the feed for a period of time - I think it's the best part of a day. Unfortunately it isn't configurable at the moment.

If you leave it long enough, it will update.

Alex

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said :
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I've added a Blueprint for making this configurable and subscribed you to it.

I'd appreciate you marking this solved as its status is now tracked on the Blueprint.

Cheers

Alex

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Chris Allen (tech-dumptonschool) said :
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Thanks Alex Harrington, that solved my question.

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asmith (anthony-smith-connateholdings) said :
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I am trying to figure out if this is my issue as well and if there is anything that I can do:
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories I use this Yahoo feed. When I first add it to my zone, it says: Can Not display this feed and then a few minutes later, it displays.

What can I do to not show that message?

One thing to note. I am not using the feed in the traditional scroll across the bottom format. he main reason is because this feed has pictures so I gave it a nice big space over to the right.

Also, is it possible to maybe show one news article at a time?

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said :
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Hi

I can't comment on that particular feed as i don't have access to a system to try it on right now.

On your second point, please see the release notes for 1.0.2 which came out this week - in particular the section about New Features - for details of the single mode on the ticker.

I'm not sure off hand if the image from the feed will be shown - i rather suspect not.

Cheers

Alex

--- original message ---
From: "asmith" <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #69356]: RSS Feeds Updating?
Date: 28th June 2009
Time: 8:20:20 pm

Question #69356 on Xibo changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/xibo/+question/69356

asmith posted a new comment:
I am trying to figure out if this is my issue as well and if there is anything that I can do:
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories I use this Yahoo feed. When I first add it to my zone, it says: Can Not display this feed and then a few minutes later, it displays.

What can I do to not show that message?

One thing to note. I am not using the feed in the traditional scroll
across the bottom format. he main reason is because this feed has
pictures so I gave it a nice big space over to the right.

Also, is it possible to maybe show one news article at a time?

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Dan Garner (dangarner) said :
#6

It is most likely displaying that message because it cannot get the feed before it times out. Currently you cannot config the message that shows (or remove it).

If the image is inside the description element of the RSS (which it is for the Yahoo feed) then it should be displayed on the client. However this is not something I have tested so would be interested to hear if it works?

I will try to test a client with that particular feed later on today.

Cheers,
Dan

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said :
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I put this feed on my test client with 1.0.2 in single mode.

It works as I'd expect. The image is in the description so it is shown. I didn't get any error message. I'd suggest then that your client is having difficulties connecting to the internet to pull the feed URL in.

Cheers

Alex