Custom Keyboard Guide for Interactivity

    Intro If your monitor uses a keyboard for an interactive App, you may want to replace or extend the key bindings for the interactivity actions. This can be easily done by using the Advanced Player Directives. Keyboards come in many forms and flavors, so the key replacements must be declared in key code form. Finding […]

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    Interactive Kiosk

    Introduction Interactive Kiosk enables your content to be displayed as a screensaver, and additional content will be displayed after an interaction with the monitor, either through a touch or a keyboard click. After a selected period of inactivity, the monitor switches back to the screensaver content. Creating an Interactive Kiosk App The Interactive Kiosk can be […]

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    Monitor Security

    Remote Support Password Disable Firewall Reconfiguration Allow SSH on the LAN Disable remote support (VPN) Lock-Down Player [Enterprise Plan only] Warning! Before locking down your player, make sure that you have read the below information. Many configuration options will be disabled and you will need to have physical access to the player in order to unlock it. […]

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    On-screen Messages

    9.9.1a Hide Diagnostics screen 9.9.1b Hide “Turning Off” message 9.9.1c Hide Player Processes messages 9.9.1d Show only icons for messages

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    Media Filtering

    Media Tag Filtering makes it easy to automatically tailor the type of content displayed on each screen by using media tags.  Most importantly, instead of creating a separate Playlist for a screen in London and another playlist for a screen in Dubai, for example, users can create a main playlist for all screens and locations and […]

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    Support for LED board screens and billboards

    You can use your Player for LED screens and LED billboards. To properly use an LED display, you must perform some calculations and configurations. Step 1: Setting the DVI resolution First, you must identify what resolution your LED display (or LED board controller, or LED sender card) requires as input. This is usually called the […]

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    Sound/Display

    Resolution The Playbox (based on the Raspberry Pi) automatically detects on start-up the “preferred” resolution of the connected monitor (usually, its native resolution).  Sometimes, the resolution might not be detected properly.  This might happen if you power up your Playbox without a screen connected or if, after a power failure, the Playbox starts before the […]

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