This feature is already in our roadmap. It is closely related to the “Refresh” feature for Web Pages.

We are planning to provide an option that will enable you not to “cache” the Web Page, but instead take a “screenshot” of the page, store it and show it for the duration specified by the user, and then refresh it.

This will be provided soon, towards mid-2019.

We apologize for the delay. We have been working on a Facebook Widget for quite sometime now, but it is quite challenging to get this working right. Hopefully, we will have it ready in the next couple of months.

We are planning to provide support for playback synchronization across Playlists within the same device and across Playlists on different devices. This will be provided as a toggle called “synced playback” on Playlists. It will use the current time to sync playback across all Playlists marked as synced.

This will come towards the end of Q3-2019. In the meantime, we have a workaround that has the same effect with some restrictions and a bit weird setup. Reach out if you want to try it out.

Showing calendar information is a frequently requested feature. We are planning to support ICS calendars with a Widget.

In the mean time, check out this article on how you can get a Google Calendar shown on a Yodeck screen: https://www.yodeck.com/news/how-to-get-your-google-calendar-on-a-wall-mounted-screen/

We are considering this feature as a premium Widget in Yodeck. As soon as we have feedback, we will update this suggestion.

The “Push to Players?” button will soon be modified to show a pop-up window. In this window, you will be given the option to schedule the push; you choose if you want to push now, or do the push on a specific date/time.

We will probably incorporate your suggestion in this new popup. In the meanwhile, we might also add it in the confirmation pop-up in a following release.

As most of you have seen, the Raspberry Pi 4 has been announced! To celebrate, we are running a free giveaway of 10 RPi4 1GB boards! You can read our complete review and join the giveaway here: https://www.yodeck.com/news/the-raspberry-pi-4-ultimate-review/

With the Raspberry Pi 4, we will fully support 4K resolution, and 4K video decoding. We should be able to release a beta version of the Yodeck SD card image by tomorrow, so those of you that are lucky enough to get their hands on a RPi4 board should be able to use it with Yodeck.

Concerning Raspberry Pi 3 B+ support for 4K, that is not going to change a lot. There are hardware restrictions there that does not allow for much hacking. Still, you could it with some restrictions. Here is more info on that: http://support.yodeck.com/knowledgebase/articles/1912408-define-an-advanced-custom-and-a-4k-resolution

There are a lot of ideas for Widgets. Unfortunately, we do not have the ability to create all of the Widgets that our customers need. That is why we provide the ability to create your own Custom Widget:

https://www.yodeck.com/docs/display/YO/Custom+Widget+Developer%27s+Guide

The Widget you are proposing can be easily created. Within the Widget UI, you would enter the name and birthday of each employee and the Widget would display it easily.

Reach out if you need help with the development. We are marking this as “under review” only to keep this request and see if it can get more traction down the road.

We do plan to provide a Yodeck Player app for Android. As you may understand, this requires a lot of effort. So, it might take several months until it gets completed. We target the end of 2017 for a first version, but it may well be 2018 until it gets released.

At last, the Show Preview is available on our beta site! You can now a) see a preview version of Widgets working right inside the Show Editor, b) see how transparency looks like with Images and Widgets, c) preview/edit the Show in fullscreen mode! All these three changes provide for a much easier editing/previewing experience!

Within the next couple of months, we investigate expanding it to also provide some form of Video/Playlist playback in the browser. Either we do implement this final step or not, this will be publicly available on our next release scheduled for September 27th!

If you are talking about additional font for the Web Page viewer, we would need more information. Perhaps, this is resolved by the addition of Chromium browser (check this idea: http://support.yodeck.com/forums/301815-general/suggestions/13794672-ability-to-render-more-advanced-web-content)

If you are talking about the RSS Ticker, we plan to add support for a Unicode font, so that all characters can be rendered (Chinese being the most problematic one right now).

Please provide more feedback on this.

We plan to add support for other scrolling Widgets, like feeds and more. We also plan to provide access to this through HTML5.

Please post comments with any ideas that you have.

RTL support will be added soon.

Our whole backend (server) provides an RESTful HTTP API. This is currently used only by our UI, the User Interface that our users see on their screen.

This API needs to be documented and polished up, but it is (more or less) already usable for special purposes. We will just provide you with a access token.

We are planning to release a fully documented API spec within Q2-2017.

We do plan to improve on the time it takes to switch from one Show to the next. Doing a preload on a Show-level, has some implications, but it could work.

In the mean time, you might be served by this feature:

http://support.yodeck.com/forums/301815-general/suggestions/16357123-custom-background-for-schedule

Finally, due to the implementation, providing for smooth Shows transition would require this feature implemented first:

https://yodeck.uservoice.com/admin/forums/301815-general/suggestions/16208410-master-playlists-that-can-play-multiple-sub-playli

We are going to mark this as Accepted, but it will take some time till you see it released.

We will be gradually adding Widget. For sure, it will include social feeds.

Although it sounds interesting, this feature needs refinement.

In the new version to be released this week, we do have a text Widget. You could add this text Widget to all Shows on top of all other content. You would set it to transparent background and do not type anything. Then, when ever you wanted to sent a message, you would edit the Widget, type the message, and push to all devices. But would this suffice as an “emergency broadcast”?

If you are interested in this feature, please leave more comments and discuss further.

Our current Weather Widget is functional, but not the best option. We planning to design a functional and great-looking Weather Widget within the next few months.

On a side note, we are planning to create Widget Themes, so that you can add Widgets to your screen and have a coherent and great looking result by selecting a Theme defining colors, fonts, and style.