Rewind October 2025 - API & Enhancements + N8N Integration
During this cycle, we focused on refining the API surface, polishing the player experience, and introducing new capabilities all while squashing many issues behind the scenes.
## 🚀 Highlights & New Features
- **API‑driven playlist relaunch**: you can now trigger a playlist restart via the API
- **N8N integration (API)**: connect workflows via N8N to drive Obscreen actions [(read more)](https://docs.obscreen.io/features/n8n-integration)
- **Public API access option**: allow API usage even when authentication is enabled
- **Automated periodic playlist relaunch**: schedule playlist relaunches automatically
- **New HTML content type**: upload custom HTML slides to your playlists
- **Background color & opacity for embedded playlists**: better visual control of embeds
## 🔧 Enhancements & Fixes
- Client tags now consistently identify players in the dashboard
- Fixed user‑edit button click in the User Explorer view
- Cloud‑instance content upload via API corrected
- More robust uploader when multiple files are uploaded simultaneously
- Python dependencies locked & updated for stability
- Users remain administrable even in safe mode
- Better mobile compatibility for the Studio fleet page
- Playlist refresh fixed when a playgroup playlist changes
- Fix for name collision when creating playlists with identical names
- Quick search added when selecting content
- Dashboard no longer flickers between last playlist states for embedded playlists
- Preservation of checked items when refreshing list after picking content
## 🖥️ For beta users of Obscreen Player OS
- Sound is now supported at the OS level
- Remote screenshot capture capability added
## 👀 Did you miss us?
We were a bit absent lately because we concentrated heavily on correcting a large number of underlying issues and greatly improving the API, especially around the new N8N integration. This work laid strong foundations for smoother, more reliable usage going forward.
## 🚀 Highlights & New Features
- **API‑driven playlist relaunch**: you can now trigger a playlist restart via the API
- **N8N integration (API)**: connect workflows via N8N to drive Obscreen actions [(read more)](https://docs.obscreen.io/features/n8n-integration)
- **Public API access option**: allow API usage even when authentication is enabled
- **Automated periodic playlist relaunch**: schedule playlist relaunches automatically
- **New HTML content type**: upload custom HTML slides to your playlists
- **Background color & opacity for embedded playlists**: better visual control of embeds
## 🔧 Enhancements & Fixes
- Client tags now consistently identify players in the dashboard
- Fixed user‑edit button click in the User Explorer view
- Cloud‑instance content upload via API corrected
- More robust uploader when multiple files are uploaded simultaneously
- Python dependencies locked & updated for stability
- Users remain administrable even in safe mode
- Better mobile compatibility for the Studio fleet page
- Playlist refresh fixed when a playgroup playlist changes
- Fix for name collision when creating playlists with identical names
- Quick search added when selecting content
- Dashboard no longer flickers between last playlist states for embedded playlists
- Preservation of checked items when refreshing list after picking content
## 🖥️ For beta users of Obscreen Player OS
- Sound is now supported at the OS level
- Remote screenshot capture capability added
## 👀 Did you miss us?
We were a bit absent lately because we concentrated heavily on correcting a large number of underlying issues and greatly improving the API, especially around the new N8N integration. This work laid strong foundations for smoother, more reliable usage going forward.