Frontend Server API

Summary

The Frontend API is the interface used by the concerto-frontend application to get screen template, layout, and field information that is used to render the Concerto frontend (Example).

API Endpoints

Screens

Get frontend HTML page for screen

GET http://nightly.concerto-signage.org/frontend/<SCREEN ID>
GET http://nightly.concerto-signage.org/frontend/1

Request

Parameter	Possible Values
SCREEN ID	Numeric screen identifier

This URL is meant to be opened in a full-screen web browser, Android WebView, or iOS/Mac OS X UIWebView. The screen id is either provided by the user or returned from the Bandshell configuration process.

Get Frontend configuration for screen

GET http://nightly.concerto-signage.org/frontend/<SCREEN ID>/setup.json
GET http://nightly.concerto-signage.org/frontend/1/setup.json

Request

Parameter	Possible Values
SCREEN ID	Numeric screen identifier

This endpoint returns a JSON blob containing screen information.

Response

Parameter	Possible Values
id	Numeric screen identifier
name	User-defined name for screen
template	JSON hash for template