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News

The News app pulls news from the RSS feed of your favorite news site. We have preconfigured several news sources from several countries.

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Properties

You can configure the app using the following properties:

PropertyExplanation
CountrySelect the country of the news source you are looking for.
News sourceThis will show the currently available news sources within the selected country. Select the one you like.
Refresh icon(Re)load the news source and display the next article or start running the ticker.
Maximum age of articlesThe messages on your screen will never be older than what you select here.
StyleSets the way you like your articles to be displayed: As a single message, a ticker or vertical ticker
Note: When the app style is set to “single article” then each time the page is shown again during playback, the app advances to the next available article.
Include contentUnselect to only see the headlines.
Include image(Only for “Single message” or “Vertical ticker” style) Lets you indicate if you also want to display an embedded image (if present) and if so where: above the text, in the top left of the body text or in the top right of the body text.
Fixed image height(Only for “Single message” or “Vertical ticker” style) If you selected to include an image, this lets you reserve a fixed space for that image to better retain your layout.
Article style(Only for “Single message” or “Vertical ticker” style) Sets the way you like individual articles to be displayed:With a transparent backgroundIn a box with rounded cornersIn a box with straight corners
Background color(Only for “Rounded box” or “Rectangular box” article style) Set the background color of a single article box.
Transparency(Only for “Rounded box” or “Rectangular box” article style) Set the background transparency of a single article box.
Scroll speed(Only for “Ticker” style) Set the desired scroll speed of the ticker.
Skip page when this app is emptyWhen enabled, the page this app is on will be skipped during playback when this app has no data to show.
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