Happeo App Key Features
✔ Two Layouts to choose from: Single Post or Happeo News Board
✔ Choose Your Channels: Select specific Happeo channels to display on Valotalive Displays, so the right message reaches the right team.
✔ Automatic Updates: Your Displays update automatically as soon as new content is published in Happeo, saving you time and keeping information fresh.
✔ Customizable Look: Match the Display's appearance with your company's brand for a consistent look and feel.
✔ Rich Content: Share a variety of content, including text, images, and videos. You can even use different layouts, like a Single post or a News board.
✔ AI-Powered Summaries: The app uses Gemini AI to create smart summaries of your posts, making key information easy to digest at a glance (see example below).
Best practice tip for composing a Happeo post
Use Articles with a cover image for a consistent look on your digital signage screens. This makes your posts easy to read and visually appealing because the image size is fixed.
To get this application activated here’s how to proceed:
Management in Happeo
Login to Happeo and search for System accounts
Create a system account
Create an API key for the system account
Give the correct user rights for the system account, i.e. add the system account as a member to the channels to be shown on the digital displays.
Read more from Happeo API documentation
Activating Happeo Apps 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:
Happeo Single post App
Settings on the Apps' Configuration tab
Authorize Valotalive to fetch contents from Happeo
Fill in the requested information including the Happeo API key
Channels
Start typing the channel name you want to fetch the news from.
Select the channel and confirm with OK. Select one or more channels for each app.
[Beta] AI Smart Summaries ✦
Shorten your posts for digital signage. Valotalive AI (Gemini) creates a brief, easy-to-read summary of your content, showing the most important points in 3-4 bullet points.
Article view time
How many seconds each page is shown on the displays
Best practise for the view time is between 8-15 seconds.
Logo
Set/Upload Logo and place it in one of the following locationsMain logo: Logo to be shown on the bottom of the view
Logo: Logo to be shown on the top of the view
Best practise is to use logo only on one location.
Call to action text to be shown at bottom right corner.
Use [b] to bold parts of the text.
SHOW ADVANCED
Posts must be newer than
You can enter maximum age of the posts, if this app should show only latest posts. This setting defines the age of Happeo posts in general: older posts are deleted from Valotalive.First line of post is the title
Use this option to separate title from the text in posts. Doesn't affect articles.Hide Markup-links in posts
Use this option to hide links inside postsNews in one show cycle
Choose how many news should be shown in one show cycle. Min. 1, max. 12Top Logo size
Size of the top logo, if used.[App] Posts must be newer than
You can enter maximum age of the posts. This setting overrides the previous generic Happeo API setting.[App] Number of latest posts to follow
Choose how many of the latest posts should be shown. A large number tends to hide latest posts.Fit text
Automatically adjusts text to fit the screen, ensuring the full article is always visible. Note: For extremely long articles, text may become very small to fit on the screen.Language
Language for the texts inside the app
Happeo News Board
Happeo News Board let's you choose multiple News channels for individual layout on the screens. In in the end you can have multiple different topics visible in the
Settings on the Apps' Configuration tab
Authorize Valotalive to fetch contents from Happeo
Fill in the requested information including the Happeo API key
Channels
Start typing the channel name you want to fetch the news from.
Select the channel and confirm with OK. Select one or more channels for each app.[Beta] AI Smart Summaries ✦
Shorten your posts for digital signage. Valotalive AI (Gemini) creates a brief, easy-to-read summary of your content, showing the most important points in 3-4 bullet points.
SHOW ADVANCED
Posts must be newer than
You can enter maximum age of the posts, if this app should show only latest posts. This setting defines the age of Happeo posts in general: older posts are deleted from Valotalive.URL for Call to action
Input any URL here that can be shown either as a QR code or as text next to the Board Name. Requires either 'Show CTA below title' or 'CTA as QR code' to be on
Company logo for posts
Logo for the app main page & posts
Board Title
Optional: Give your board a title to set the context for your posts.
Time to show the cards
The preferred time in seconds to show one card (in landscape there are three cards at once)
Best practise is to set the view time for each news post to 15 seconds or more, which gives viewers enough time to read the full content.
Show CTA below title
Shows your URL below (Portrait) or next to (Landscape) the title.
CTA as QR code
Display your URL as a QR code
Language
Language for the texts inside the app
[App] Posts must be newer than
You can enter maximum age of the posts, if this app should show only latest posts
[App] Number of latest posts to follow
Choose a small number of recent posts to display. Keeping the number of posts in the single digits is recommended, as showing too many can hide the most current news.