Facebook posts shared on your displays using the Valotalive Facebook App

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

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:

Valotalive content App - Activate and go live

PREREQUISITES

For a smooth Valotalive and Facebook integration, you'll need to authenticate using a Facebook system account during the process. This account must have admin privileges.

Finding the System User in Meta Business Suite

Open Meta Business Suite: Head over to https://business.facebook.com/
Locate Settings: Look for the "Settings" tab on the bottom left corner and click it.
Navigate to Users: Within the settings page, find the "Users" section (if not already open) and click on "System User."

Admin User Required for Authentication

Please note that the admin of the system user is the one who needs to perform the authentication. If you don't use an admin account, the Valotalive page won't show up as available in the Valotalive Facebook App settings.

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 integrations
Choose the Facebook page to follow from a drop-down list.
Click the pen to open the drop-down list.
SHOW ADVANCED:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 feed
4. Minimum 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.
5. 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.