TVS 5.5.0-beta (12-14-2025)

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Update Notes - 12/14/2025 (5.5.0)

📢 Get the new Television Simulator Launcher over at its GitHub release page.

View the entire Changelog here!

✨ New Features

• Added a new limit option to the loop engine that allows for more advanced content selection capabilities.

Consider this example:

refs:
  loop-1:
    loop:
      shuffle: random
      limit: 1
      content:
      - image: placeholders/sequence/1.jpg
        duration: 3
      - image: placeholders/sequence/2.jpg
        duration: 3
  
  loop-2:
    loop:
      shuffle: random
      limit: 2
      content:
      - image: placeholders/sequence/3.jpg
        duration: 3
      - image: placeholders/sequence/4.jpg
        duration: 3
      - image: placeholders/sequence/5.jpg
        duration: 3

channels:
- number: 185
  loop:
  - ref: loop-1
  - ref: loop-2

We'll loop from loop-1 to loop-2 then back again, but each time we start up one of these, we'll choose only
one item from loop-1 and only two items from loop-2. The nested loops and shuffling makes it work!

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where parents of nested loops (loops within loops) would advance to the next content after the default duration (30 seconds) instead of waiting for an inner loop to finish.

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This discussion was created from the release TVS 5.5.0-beta (12-14-2025).