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Configurator and manager for BrightSign devices. Version 1.85.0 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.
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Configurator and manager for BrightSign devices
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Project history and usage
BrightSign Author, formerly BrightAuthor:connected, is BrightSign's desktop and web application for configuring players, authoring digital-signage presentations, publishing content, and managing devices. The desktop edition is available for macOS and Windows and can work with local or cloud-connected publishing workflows.
Project history
BrightSign created BrightAuthor:connected as the successor to BrightAuthor Classic, adding macOS support, a web application, and direct integration with BSN.Cloud. The product has since been rebranded as BrightSign Author, although official documentation and release material continue to use BrightAuthor:connected where needed for continuity.
Adoption history
BrightAuthor:connected became BrightSign's primary cross-platform authoring and player-management application, replacing the legacy Windows-oriented BrightAuthor Classic workflow. BrightSign recommends the desktop application for most users while also offering a browser edition through BSN.Cloud.
The application supports multiple generations of BrightSign players and publishing modes ranging from removable-media and local-network delivery to web folders, partner content-management systems, and BrightSign's cloud services.
How it is used
Operators use the application to provision BrightSign players, create presentations containing video, images, audio, HTML, and text, and publish those presentations by removable storage, local network, web folder, partner CMS, or BSN.Cloud.
BSN.Cloud credentials are entered interactively when cloud features are used. Official documentation identifies application-support directories for complete uninstallation but does not identify a particular supported configuration file or credentials file, so no file location is asserted here.
Why package nerds care
The application is important in digital-signage deployment because it joins media authoring, device provisioning, content publishing, and fleet management in one vendor tool. For Mac package users, the ba-connected cask provides a managed installation route for software that is otherwise distributed as a vendor DMG.
Timeline
- 2019: BrightSign product material presented BrightAuthor:connected as a connected authoring and BSN.Cloud management environment.
- 2023: The 1.19 release series expanded localization and Series 5 presentation support.
- 2025: Product terminology and branding began changing from BrightAuthor:connected to BrightSign Author.
- 2026: Version 1.85.0 added authoring and scripting support for new EV-series players.
Related projects
- BrightAuthor Classic is the legacy authoring application that BrightSign Author supersedes.
- BSN.Cloud provides browser access, cloud provisioning, content storage, and network-management services used by the application.
- BrightSign players are the dedicated digital-signage devices configured and supplied with presentations by the application.
- Homebrew Cask supplies the ba-connected package-manager entry represented by this record.
Sources
- Official general FAQ: https://docs.brightsign.biz/faqs/ucA4-general
- Official latest releases: https://docs.brightsign.biz/releases/latest
- Official player quickstart: https://docs.brightsign.biz/player-quickstart
- Official release history: https://docs.brightsign.biz/releases/brightauthorconnected
- Official user guide: https://docs.brightsign.biz/user-guides/brightsign-author-brightauthorconnected
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page generated2026-11-04
manager version1.85.0
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://www.brightsign.biz/resources/software-downloads/
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.brightsign.biz/resources/software-downloads/none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | cask:ba-connected |
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| Version | 1.85.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew Cask |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/ba-connected |
| Homepage | https://www.brightsign.biz/resources/software-downloads/ |
| Upstream docs | https://www.brightsign.biz/resources/software-downloads/ |
| Source archive | https://downloads.bsn.cloud/BA%20connected-1.85.0.dmg |
| SHA-256 | 3628c2eab7ee4d36a7e1247e4d2ae5fc8f81e5c671c734dcb0e7912ff3e3a686 |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
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| Source Database | Homebrew cask API |
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| Tap | homebrew/cask |
| Full Token | ba-connected |
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| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
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