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.

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.

Yodeck has limited support for interactivity. Right now, you can build and upload HTML5 apps as Widgets, but they must not be placed as overlays in order for them to be interactive. Same goes for Web Pages.

An on-screen keyboard would be a nice addition. Given that this would require a touch screen, we would also have to implement an easy way to setup and calibrate touchscreens (can be done).

We are marking this feature as Accepted and we will see down the road how things progress.

Right now, you can refresh a web page by adding it multiple time in a Playlist. This way, the Web Page will get refreshed.

Another way to do this now is through the Web Scripting engine.

Both of these ways are no so practical, and definitely not obvious. So, we will be adding this option soon.

Supporting ICS files/URLs natively on Yodeck (and not being displayed from an online service through a Web Page) has been coming up in requests. This requires a new Widget and some serious development.

We are growing the team, and new team members coming on board will start working on new Widgets, with focus on the main social widgets and this calendar widget. These two are the most requested features so far.

Stay tuned!

Turns out that setting a solid color background or setting an image as a background is easy. We will provide this option soon.

Audio normalization could be implemented in two levels:

1) provide a volume slider in each video entry, so that you can differentiate volume per Media
2) normalize volume for all Media

Both ways are right now unknown, and we have not had enough testing to say if any of the two is feasible. As soon as we do, we will update you here.

Currently, we have no way to know that what the users has specified can indeed be fitted on the SD card storage. Providing an easy way to add tens or hundreds of YouTube videos, would probably cause issues. But we are looking into it and we will probably provide this in the near future.

This is indeed in our plans. We will add support for recurrence in hours and minutes. Thank you for your suggestion!

We have not made any tests with Facebook videos. We will have to look into it in more detail.

This is due to a restriction impose by the Raspberry Pi hardware. We plan to allow soon using at least two videos. We are also conducting tests with Raspberry Pi 3 to establish the best possible solution.

We are working towards a solution that might allow 2 videos running concurrently, provided that the bitrates and resolutions are within range.

We will add this, it is really useful. Check out also another feature request for a special multi-view of all screenshots in a single screen.

Expiration date for Media is already implemented, here is the original suggestion: http://support.yodeck.com/forums/301815-general/suggestions/17696950-asset-expiration

This however does not remove Media from Playlists. There might be a need to remove expired Media from Playlists without deleting it. So, I am leave this to be reviewed and to gather more traction.

I guess you are talking about transition from one show to another. This will be significantly improve really soon. We are working on an improved version of the playback engine that will allow much faster transitions.

Stay tuned to see it get released!

We supported x86 until Jan 2017. Adoption was really, really low, since a) we provide the Player for free to direct customers, and b) using the Raspberry Pi saves you so much on electricity, recovering the cost of the RPi within a couple of years.

We are planning to develop soon an HTML5-based player, so this could be easily wrapped to work on x86 hardware.

Stay tuned for updates.