Deploy a BrightSign Player in 10 Minutes with AI

Evan Morgan — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:25:53 +0000

From zero to content on your digital signage player in under 10 minutes.

What We're Building

By the end of this post, you'll display an image on a BrightSign player using AI-generated code. No SDK. No framework. Just one prompt and a working script.

Let's go.

Prerequisites

A BSN.cloud account - Sign up free at bsn.cloud
A BSN network - Created when you sign up
A BrightSign player - Powered on, connected to a screen, registered to your network. If you don't have one, you can order a BrightSign player here, or if you haven't set it up yet, follow the Player Setup video.

Got all three? Start your timer.

Step 1: Get Your API Credentials

Log into the BSN Admin Panel. Navigate to Settings -> Applications -> Add Application. Name it anything. Give it Devices permissions (read and write). Copy:

Client ID
Secret

Store them safely, you'll need these so your application can authenticate.

Note: if you have trouble performing these steps, refer to the BrightSign API Authentication Guide.

Step 2: Install the MCP Server

The MCP server is the secret sauce to speeding up our deployment times. It will query the documentation in real-time to generate accurate, working code on the first try. No more copy-pasting from docs. No more trial-and-error.

Let's give your AI assistant direct access to BrightSign documentation.

Claude Code:

claude mcp add brightdeveloper-docs --transport http https://brightdeveloper-mcp.bsn.cloud/mcp

VS Code / Cursor: Add to your MCP settings:

{
  "servers": {
    "brightdeveloper": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://brightdeveloper-mcp.bsn.cloud/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Step 3: Run the Prompt

Open Claude and paste this:

Generate a complete, working program that displays "Hello BrightSign" on my player.

# Requirements
- Use the BrightSign MCP server documentation to get the API details right
- Load credentials from a .env file, you create it and I'll fill in the values for BRIGHTSIGN_CLIENT_ID and BRIGHTSIGN_CLIENT_SECRET
- Authenticate with BSN.cloud
- Set network context after auth
- Use the Remote DWS (RDWS) API to upload files directly to the player's storage
- Upload an autorun.brs file that displays an image fullscreen
- Upload the hello-brightsign.png image from:
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BrightDevelopers/BrightDev/main/examples/hello-brightsign/static/hello-brightsign.png
- Reboot the player to run the new autorun
- Print progress at each step
- Single file I can run directly

# My Settings
- Language: Node.js / Go / Python / Anything you like
- Network name: YOUR_NETWORK_NAME_HERE
- Player serial: TARGET_PLAYER_SERIAL_HERE

Step 4: See It

Add your credentials to the generated .env file then run the generated code. Watch your player reboot. The "Hello BrightSign" image appears.

That's it. You just deployed directly to a BrightSign player. Here's mine (please forgive my key to Erebor and split keyboard 😅)

What's Next

BrightDev Repo - More examples
GitHub Discussions - Questions, ideas and bug reports

Part of BrightDeveloper - BrightSign's AI-first developer program.

Forem: Evan Morgan