Connect Social media to digital displays with Valotalive Facebook App. App main features
✔ Follow the posts from company account
✔ Support for text, images, and auto-play video!
✔ Choose the amount of latest posts to display
✔ Secure Facebook Authentication
Note! Only main messages from particular Facebook page is shown. Conversations below the main message are not shown.
Activate Facebook App
Activating Facebook app needs ownership of the Facebook account and Admin role in Valotalive
Easiest way for activating a content App is from Valotalive Dashboard. Just click the icon of the content you wish to activate and proceed. More detailed info of the first steps can be found here:
Settings on the Apps' Configuration tab
Authorise to Facebook with OAuth2
Login to Facebook from the Authorize link
Follow the instructions given by Facebook and choose the page you want your displays to show.
And finalise the authorisation with OK
NOTE! All authorisations between Valotalive and Facebook are valid for approximately 12 weeks at a time, after which you'll need to renew the authorisation (token). When the token expires your displays will keep showing Facebook contents, but won't receive new posts.
Easiest way to reauthorise is through My Account > Service integrationsChoose the Facebook page to follow from a drop-down list.
Click the pen to open the drop-down list.Click the SHOW ADVANCED to modify app's other settings (listed below):
The number of the latest posts to show
How many of the latest Facebook posts will be displayed in the info screen.
Define it according to how often you post information to facebook keeping in mind that the info screen should show only the most recent posts. The oldest posts will be dropped off from the cycle based on this setting.Time to show one post
This defines how long one post will be visible in the info screen at one time and value depends on your typical content. If your posts are mostly text, then you start with 20 seconds. Collect feedback to should you increase or decrease this value. Main point is to make sure your viewer has enough time to read everything, consume the contents.Animated text on screens (On/Off)
Preset is Off, no animation in the texts of your Facebook posts. If you have many videos in the feedMinimum amount of posts in one show cycle
To define how many facebook posts will be shown at one time before something else comes to the display.Mute videos
We recommend using audio on your digital displays only with special contents. If there is a lot of sound on the displays people may find the sound annoying.
Complete the work by adding the app to a flow or directly to a display.
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