Images and web pages on servers with self-signed certificates can play

Images and web pages on an internal server often use a self-signed certificate. Anthias couldn't verify it, so it marked the asset unreachable and skipped it, or the screen stayed blank where the content should be. From Anthias 2026.07.2 you can let them through, for one asset or for the whole player.

For one asset, open it with "Edit" and turn on "Skip SSL verification". The switch shows up when the asset's address starts with https://. For the whole player, go to Settings > Display & playback and turn off "Verify SSL certificates". That switches off certificate checks for every asset, so leave it on unless you need it.

Both cover images and web pages, and the check Anthias runs to see whether an asset is reachable. A video file added by its address is downloaded to the player first, and that download still checks the certificate.

For developers

The v2 asset endpoints have a skip_ssl_verify field. The player-wide setting is verify_ssl in the [viewer] section of anthias.conf, True by default, and verify_ssl in /api/v2/device_settings. Setting it to False in the file used to change nothing, because the check stayed on regardless. It takes effect from this release.