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:
| Property | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Country | Select the country of the news source you are looking for. |
| News source | This 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 articles | The messages on your screen will never be older than what you select here. |
| Style | Sets 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 content | Unselect 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 empty | When enabled, the page this app is on will be skipped during playback when this app has no data to show. |