How to: Animated Weather via ScreenFeed

For users wanting to add a Radar Map in motion into Carousel or CablecastCG.

Video Walkthrough

This method uses Screenfeed, which is a paid subscription service. We cannot provide technical support for issues with the Screenfeed RSS feeds. Screenfeed is a service not to be mixed up with Screenweave. Cablecast is not affliated with Screenfeed.

Steps

Creating the feed

1. Navigate to https://www.screenfeed.com/

2. Go to "Content" / "Weather" / "Animated Weather Radar"

3. Its recommended you try the trial before subscribing

4. Once you've started your trial (or purchased), go to your account feeds (https://www.screenfeed.com/account/feeds)

5. "Create a feed beneath "Animated Weather Radar"

6. Select "Media RSS"

1. Select "16:9" (or 4:3 if thats your zone aspect)

1. Select with content you want to include (National or Regional) and configure options.

2. Name your feed

3. Done! It'll give you a feed URL, please save this somewhere as we'll need it later.

Configuring CablecastCG / Carousel

1. Navigate to your zone you want to create the map

2. Create a new Dynamic / RSS bulletin

3. Name your bulletin

4. Ensure you're in the "Dyanmic Tab"

5. Paste in your Feed URL from Screenfeed

6. You should see something like "This feed contains 6 items".

7. Change "Total Bulletins" to match that number

8. Items per bulletin should remain 1.

9. Go to the "Layout" tab

10. Delete all the blocks in the editor

11. Create a new block, give it a name of "image" and set the type to "Web Picture"

12. Drag the box to span the entire canvas / zone.

13. Go over to the "Content" tab

14. In the "Image" box, copy and paste in #ItemImageURL#

15. Go to the "Extras" tab

16. Turn off "Let the system decide dwell time" and set it to 1 second

17. Publish!

Create a few loops

Your feed will only loop once then move on. If you want your map to loop a few times, you need to duplicate the item a couple times.