TVS 5.10.0-beta (2026-04-24)

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Update Notes - 5.10.0 (2026-04-24)

✨ New Features

This update has added a new Character Generator engine that can be used in many scenarios:

• Displaying news bulletins, weather and text ads
• Overlaying text over videos or images
• Adding a crawl / ticker to a channel
• Integrating with live data (given you supply it in the right format)

TVS 5.10 ships with a built-in character generator template editor which you can also try on the demo site.

This update also adds two new weather providers that work worldwide: wttr.in and weatherapi.com which requires an API key.

- number: 150
  name: Weather demo
  abbr: WX1
  weather:
    logo: placeholders/weather.png
    provider: wttr.in
    units: imperial

- number: 151
  name: Weather demo
  abbr: WX2
  weather:
    logo: placeholders/weather.png
    provider: weatherapi.com
    apiKey: "YOUR-API-KEY"
    units: metric

❗ Deprecation Notice

The basic-text engine has been deprecated and will be removed in TVS 6.0. All example usages of it have been updated to use character-generator instead.

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This discussion was created from the release TVS 5.10.0-beta (2026-04-24).