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1. To edit the URL in the playlist of this layout following steps are required Goto Playlists gt FullScreenURLInformatics gt Zone A Click the Edit button next to the URL in the playlist Enter the URL in the Web Page text box Click Open in browser to verify it Click Save Changes itt ttt and 5 4 InformaticsForEventsMovie Layout This layout is same as FullScreenMovielnformatics except that it does not show the movie in full screen mode Top header and bottom newsfeed are shown in this Please refer to section 5 2 if changes are required in its playlist 5 5 InformaticsForEventsURL Layout This layout is same as FullScreenURLInformatics except that it does not show the webpage in full screen mode Top header and bottom newsfeed is shown in this Please refer to section 5 3 if changes are required in its playlist 6 Scheduling of Layout Display The NTB provides the functionality to schedule different layouts on different days of the week These options can be accessed via Main Menu gt Schedules gt Manage Schedules The default schedule is already configured to display Infomatics Stylel Mon Wed Fri 8am 8pm and Infomatics Style2 Tue Thu 8am 8pm On all other times NTB screen is scheduled to be off This corresponds to three entries in the default schedule 1 Screen is off at all times unless otherwise scheduled 2 Display Informatics Stylel on Mon Wed and Fri from 8am to 8pm 3 Display Inform2. To change the display duration for images posters and related text follow these steps 1 Goto Main Menu gt Playlists gt Informatics Stylel gt Zone A 2 Click the Edit button in SECOND row of the playlist 3 At the bottom of the page in the Image Properties section set the duration to desired value 4 Click Save Changes 5 Goto Main Menu gt Playlists gt Informatics Stylel gt Zone C 6 Click the Edit button in THIRD row of the playlist 7 At the bottom of the page in the Text Properties section set the duration to desired value 8 Click Save Changes 9 Repeat step 1 to 8 for layout Informatics Style2 10 Activate the layout with the changes This can done by clicking the button on the top left of the menu 4 2 Adding Movies Adding movies to the display also requires configuration in the playlist of zone A and C As opposed to images posters display movies are not played from the folder in a sequence Each movie must be added to the playlist and must be synchronized with related text description in the Zone C Any name can be used for the movie Adding a movie requires the following set of steps l Go to Main Menu gt Playlists gt Informatics_Stylel gt Zone C Click the Specials tab Create a Rendezvous Point or synchronization point by entering a name and clicking the add button This will create a synchronization point at the end of the zone C playlist that will
3. changes This can done by clicking the Activate button on the top left of the menu Other Layouts Other layouts already configured on NTB are FullScreenLiveVideoInformatics Layout FullScreenMovielnformatics Layout FullScreenURLInformatics Layout InformaticsForEventsMovie Layout InformaticsForEventsURL Layout A ede Sc Please see the section Overriding the Default Schedule for information about activating these layouts 5 1 FullScreenLiveVideolnformatics Layout This layout display the live video on the NTB display from G03 5 2 FullScreenMovielnformatics Layout This layout shows a movie in full screen mode The movie played is added to its playlist before activating this layout To add change the movie to the playlist of this layout following steps are required ih Upload the movie file to otherMovies folder on NTB by navigating to Main Menu gt Media gt File amp Folders gt InformaticsLayoutData gt otherMovies and then selecting the Upload File tab Remove any older files in this folder Goto Playlists gt FullScreenMovielnformatics gt Zone A Front Entrance Display Screen Manual 4 Delete any old entries in this playlist 5 Select the Files and Folder tab 6 Select otherMovies folder 7 Click the add button next to the movie that is required to be played 5 3 FullScreenURLInformatics Layout This layout shows a webpage from a URL that is in the playlist of its Zone A
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5. Informatics Forum Front Entrance Display Screen Manual THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH informatics Table of Contents l Vt CO LUCENTE oe ssecie va aeons doce a ancora e ea a dev acess nesta Soca teas lea E AR 3 2 NTB Graphical User Interface NTB GUI ix ose took Corel eeids hoclactenotee tues 3 3 Supported Formats for UW OULC Its coc Snaructscueesdsanceucsc ceaseusenaeucts soecescegnst vee sacer seu ceunseun tee 5 4 Informatics Lav Ole dctescctosetatardiadshovenstadeatisedGvecnitounees e AEA E EEES 5 Aids Adie Images POStErS nei r eE EE E REE EEA 7 4 1 1 Duration of Display for Posters MOVIES c cccccesseesseceteeeseeeeeeeseeenseeeseeeeees 8 4 2 Adding MOVIES cornet r she ta a a O wan A Cae ands neds Mossy Ea 8 DC Other Layouts senna aa a cela a E A E elem E A A A A a a 9 5 1 FullScreenLiveVideoInformatics Layout ccccescccesceeseeeeeeeseceseeeceeeeeesseeeesneees 9 5 2 PullSerecnMovielntorinatics Payouts ciscciscosiey aaceva ts etevesiaosucsieegady ented tardies 9 5 3 FullScreenURLInformatics Layouts sic 2ichisuccsssedeg heatnhcctiatead tassetatiiea caliets seach deiinnk 10 5 4 InformaticsForEventsMovie Layout ccccccccceesccesscesececeeeeeceeeeseeceeeeeeeeeeeaeeeees 10 5 5 InformaticsForEventsURL La yOuts i sic ctecescavctsudi eschew andacs oegrestesn tea dbcadevacaven cescaanets 10 6 Scheduling of Layout DiS OL AY 6 vans Acdeccuthivacvonte suede dovaneraradeserteendianssnedte sak ua hseaenctiteen
6. Layouts Current Layout at 19 28 22 informatics g INFORMATICS Iroorpact CPU 5 Informatics Recently used Layouts No Thumbnail amp Informatics amp Active a ai o nm Done 7 NTE 15838 Home Mozilla Firefox _ di Starting Take Screenshot SSM e Applications Places System eosa Sat 21 Aug 19 33 Figure 1 NTB Main Interface Front Entrance Display Screen Manual 3 Supported Formats for Contents Before uploading the contents to the display box hard drive make sure the content is supported by the hardware software of display box Support is available for the following Images e JPEG e TIFF e GIF e PNG e BMP Movies e MPEGI 4 V 3 QT e WMV 9 e Real 1 4 Presentation e PPT e PPS e ODP 4 Informatics Layout In the current configuration of the display box the following types of content will be used e Images e Movies e Text For the current display layout of the display box each image movie is accompanied by a text description This text description resides in the corresponding text file The name of this text file starts with the string txt followed by the poster number e g 1 2 and ends with extension txt The contents of the zone A and zone C are synchronized based on the alphanumerical order of the image poster file name and related text file name For movies text description in added directly using NTB graphical user interface GUI The main layout of
7. ance Display Screen Manual 12 Plasma Screen Burn Mitigation Two layout packages are used to avoid screen burns Burn mitigation functionality is also available in the NTB display box All the layouts on the NTB can have burn mitigation enabled To do this follow these steps 1 Goto Main Menu gt Layouts Select the layout for which burn mitigation is to be activated This will show the selected layout Select the second tab titled Layout Properties Check the Enable Mitigation checkbox In the Scheme dropdown box select Mirror Layout Zones left to right Select the duration after which mirroring should take place Click the button Save All Changes just below the Main Menu Activate the layout with the changes This can done by clicking the Activate button on the top left of the menu SD rs 13 Troubleshooting In case of network outage sometimes the newsfeed is not properly updated or it appears to be broken Rebooting the NTB from the web interface should fix this problem To reboot the NTB follow these steps 1 Goto Main Menu gt Home gt Setup 2 On the bottom right corner click Reboot System 3 Confirm the reboot This will reboot the NTB and should fix the problem 14 Developer Notes Following are useful sources of information if some configuration are required e Login to NTB and then select Main Menu gt Help gt User Guides It contains an extensive documentatio
8. atics Style2 on Tue and Thu from 8am to 8pm To edit the default schedule please refer to section 11 10 Front Entrance Display Screen Manual 7 Overriding the Default Schedule The default schedule of the NTB can be overridden if required There are five layouts available that can be used to override the default schedule as described in the section 5 To override the default schedules go to Main Menu gt Schedules gt Manage Overrides A list of five layouts corresponding to the five layout discussed in section 5 is shown Select the layout that is most suitable Consider the following points when overriding the default schedule e Have you already updated the playlist of the layout that is to selected to override the default schedule e Restore the default layout when the overridden layout is no longer required 8 Settings for Playlist Contents Two types of settings can be specified for different type of content These settings determine the default behavior of images movies display These settings are default settings and need not to be set 8 1 Default Global Settings for the Playlist Elements These setting are defined in the Default tab of the playlist and are same all the content One such example is the stretching the movie to cover the whole zone area This is the default behavior of movies unless explicitly changed for each movie file There are option to set defaults for images presentation movies and text i
9. be used to synchronize the related text display when the movie start in the zone A Go to Main Menu gt Playlists gt Informatics_Stylel gt Zone C Click the Specials tab Enter the movie title description contacts and credits in the text box labeled Text separated by new lines Select the radio button labeled Show the text indefinitely Click the add button Go to Main Menu gt Playlists gt Informatics_Stylel gt Zone A Click the Specials tab Create an Advance To point by selecting the Rendezvous point created in the Front Entrance Display Screen Manual D 5 previous step from the dropdown list This will create an Advance To point at the end of the zone A playlist Upload the movie to the moviesFolder This can be done via Main Menu gt Media gt Files amp Folders Then select the main folder for layout i e InformaticsLayoutData and then select moviesFolder Select the tab Upload Files and browse to select the file on the local file system Select upload to upload the file to the selected folder Go to Main Menu gt Media gt InformaticsLayoutData gt moviesFolder Add the movie to the playlist by clicking the Add button displayed on the left side of the movie name in the NTB GUI This will add the movie at the end the zone C playlist after the Advance To point created in the previous step Repeat step 1 to 5 for layout Informatics Style2 Activate the layout with the
10. can be accessed using following URL on DICE URL http ntbg07 inf ed ac uk In order to access this URL a username and a password is required which will be provided separately To use the advanced features required for addition deletion of the contents the user must be marked as Experts This can be done via Main Menu gt UI Options and selecting the Expert from the user interface policy After doing this user can access the advanced GUI features The main menu also provides access to all the options available for uploading the content and managing the display of the contents The key elements of the main menu are discussed below Main Menu gt Media gt File amp Folders This menu item provides access to the file system of NTB display box Each directory corresponds to the layouts available on the display box After clicking this menu item an interface with two tabs is shown First tab Files amp Folder shows the files available on the NTB hard drive Second tab allows the user to upload the files to the NTB hard drive from the local file system Main Menu gt Media gt File amp Folders gt Upload File Using this menu user can upload the file to NTB harddisk from local file system The folder where the file will be uploaded on NTB harddisk is shown just under the tab Select the appropriate folder before uploading files Main Menu gt Playlist This menu shows all the layouts and the playlist in each of the lay
11. ents for this layout is InformaticsLayoutData This folder further contains the following subfolders e imagesFolder e moviesFolder e textFolder For the rest of this document information is specific to the Informatics Style and Informatics _Style2 All the images posters to be displayed e g image10 png should be uploaded to imagesFolder and corresponding text file e g txtl0 txt containing the description of the image poster to the textFolder For movies the moviesFolder should be used to store the movie files The contents in zone A and C are played based on the playlist Each zone has its own playlist and contents to be displayed must be added to the playlist after being uploaded in order to display them on the display box Pre configured playlists are available for zone A and C No effort is required for maintaining playlists while adding images posters to the display box as all the images available in the imageFolder are displayed automatically in alphanumerical order The related text file containing the text description of the image is shown in zone C 4 1 Adding Images Posters For images posters naming convention is very simple Just append a number to end of the text image as the file name e g image21 png means that it is the 21 image in the directory imageFolder Also related text file should be uploaded to the textFolder with the same name For instance adding a new poster image to the display can be done using the
12. following set of steps 1 Assign a number to the poster Of course this should not be in conflict with the existing images posters in the imagesFolder No change is required in extension 2 Change the name of the image poster file as explained above 3 Create a text file with the same name as that of the image poster file Put the title explanation max 100 words credits and contacts in the text file separated by a new line Extension to be used is default i e txt 4 Upload the images to imagesFolder and text file to textFolder respectively This can be done via Main Menu gt Media gt Files amp Folders Then select the main folder for layout i e InformaticsLayoutData and then select imagesFolder Select the tab Upload Files and browse to select the file on the local file system Select upload to upload the file to the specified folder 5 Activate the layout with the changes This can done by clicking the button on the top left of the menu Front Entrance Display Screen Manual Display of content in zones A and C is synchronized Each image is displayed for 30 seconds in zone A and text description is also shown for 30 seconds in zone C No effort is required by the user while adding images posters and related descriptions for synchronization Just upload the new image poster and related text file to the appropriate folders and the process of adding a poster is complete 4 1 1 Duration of Display for Posters Movies
13. n regarding all the features supported Some more user guides http www onelanftp co uk support OneLan Technical Support http onelan h2desk com 13
14. n the Default tab 8 2 Content specific Settings for the Playlist Elements In some cases it may be required to have different settings for some content of the playlist than the default settings In that case content specific settings can be specified to override the default settings These setting can be accessed by clicking the Edit button next to the items in playlist 9 Removing Content from Default Layouts To remove an image poster from the display box follow these step 1 Remove the image poster file from the imagesFolder and related text file from the textFolder by clicking the red cross button next to the file under the Actions column 2 Activate the layout with the changes This can done by clicking the button on the top left of the menu 11 Front Entrance Display Screen Manual To remove a movie file from the display box playlist and hard drive follow these steps 1 From the playlist of zone A delete the movie file and the synchronization point Advance To before the movie file by clicking the red cross button next to the file under the Actions column 2 From the playlist of zone C delete the entry that contains the text description of the movie and rendezvous point before the text entry by clicking the red cross button next to the file under the Actions column 3 Delete the movie file from the moviesFolder by clicking the red cross button next to the file under the Acti
15. ons column 10 Backup To take a backup for a layout do the following steps Goto Main Menu gt Layouts gt Layout Packages Select Create tab Enter the name in the Name text box and description in Description text box Tick the check box next to layout that you want to backup Click the button Create Layout Package ae NSS This will create an install able layout package that contains the settings for all the zones in the layout including playlists and related files folders This package can be downloaded from the link shown after the layout is created or using FTP with a valid username and password FTP address is ftp ntbg07 inf ed ac uk package This method is the recommended method to take backup for all different layouts on the NTB harddisk Note that using FTP all the files and folders are accessible and this feature can also be used to create a backup disk The backup taken using FTP can be used to restore the data on the NTB harddisk as all the settings may not get properly restored 11 Restoring the Layout from Layout Packages To restore a layout from a layout package the following steps are required 1 Goto Main Menu gt Layouts gt Layout Packages 2 Using the Browse button to select the layout package and click the Upload button 3 The layout package will be shown on the page after the upload 4 Click the Install button This will install the layout on NTB 12 Front Entr
16. outs Layouts This menu shows a list of the layouts available configured on the NTB display box Front Entrance Display Screen Manual Main Menu gt Status gt Player Status gt Screen Snapshot This displays the current screen snapshot An option is available to update this snapshot after some period of time This is a useful feature to check what is being displayed on the screen without actually having to go to the display screen There is another button labeled Activate Schedule and Layout just below the main menu strip After adding deleting contents on the display box or changing any configurations this button must be clicked to update the display on the screen This will effectively start all the playlists and initialized the player For the rest of this document NTB refers to the display box of the front entrance display screen i File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help llaes a o ntp n192 168 48 1 Sv a Most Visited Scientific Linux 5Distros NTB 15838 Home z Do you want Firefox to remember the password for shahzad on http 192 168 48 1 Bemember Never for This Site Not Now x Home Standalone 2010 08 21 19 29 37 BST A eee Ce Home ee o NET TOP BOX Home Media Playlists Layouts Schedules Channels Adhoc Entry Status Setup Help v7 3 0 Activate Schedule and
17. the display box is available in two styles One is shown in figure 2 The other style is simply the horizontally flipped version of this style where Zone C is on the right side instead of the left and Zone A is on the right side Ed logo and Informatics Header in style 2 are also on the right side instead of left These two styles corresponds to the following NTB layouts Front Entrance Display Screen Manual e Informatics Stylel e Informatics Style2 It is important to note that these two styles display the same set of content in the same order The corresponding folder on the NTB harddisk that contains the contents is InformaticsLayoutData Each layout has its own folder on the NTB file system where the contents can be arranged in folders but in case of Informatics Style and Informatics Style2 the same folder is used to store the files These two styles are scheduled on different days of the week as explained later in this document For the layouts Informatics _Stylel and Informatics Style2 the user is only concerned with the contents displayed in Zone A and Zone C Other contents are preconfigured fixed and no maintenance is required unless a change in the layout is required Informatics Header Movies Images Text Description Zone A Zone C BBC Newfeed Figure 2 Informatics Layout Front Entrance Display Screen Manual The Informatics layout have a corresponding folder on the file system The folder holds the cont
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