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CAYIN TECHNOLOGY
SIGNAGE MEDIA PLAYER: SMP-PRO SERIES
User Manual
CAYIN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
8F, No. 577, Linsen N. Rd.
Taipei City 104, Taiwan
TEL: +886-2-25951005
FAX: +886-2-25951050
2010 ® CAYIN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
All Rights Reserved
MPPO00/EN/100514
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com
SMP-PRO4
Version 1.0
SMP-PROPLUS
Version 1.5
Version 2.0
SMP-PRO3/ PRO3N
Version 3.5
Version 4.0

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  • Page 1 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com CAYIN TECHNOLOGY SIGNAGE MEDIA PLAYER: SMP-PRO SERIES SMP-PRO4 Version 1.0 SMP-PROPLUS Version 1.5 Version 2.0 SMP-PRO3/ PRO3N Version 3.5 Version 4.0 User Manual CAYIN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 8F, No. 577, Linsen N. Rd.

  • Page 2: Copyright Notice

    Copyright © 2010 CAYIN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved. All the contents in this manual are the intellectual property of CAYIN Technology Co., Ltd. (“CAYIN”). No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, shall be reproduced, transferred, distributed, stored in any form, or translated into any language without the prior written permission of CAYIN.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    About CAYIN ..................i Copyright Notice ................i Trademark Notice ................i Disclaimers ..................i 1. SMP-PRO Series Overview ............1 1-1 SMP-PRO4 Appearance ..............2 1-1-1 Front View (P/N: LB-700) ..............2 1-1-2 Rear View (P/N: LB-700) ..............2 1-2 SMP-PROPLUS Appearance ............3 1-2-1 Front View (P/N: LB-300) ..............3...
  • Page 4 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 1-7 Wall Mount Installation ............... 13 2. Configuration in Wizard Mode ..........14 2-1 Upload Files to SMP Player ............15 2-2 Wizard Mode Introduction ............18 2-3 Network Wizard ................18 2-3-1 Step1: Ethernet Configuration ............18...
  • Page 5 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3-3-1 Play Files in Media Folder ..............35 3-3-2 Play Files in USB Storage Device ...........38 3-3-3 Central Scheduling (by CMS Server) ..........38 3-3-4 RTB/RTP Streaming.................39 3-3-5 HTTP/MMS Streaming ..............40 3-3-6 Video Input ..................40 3-3-7 Image Slide Show ................40 3-3-8 Mute Function ..................41 3-4 Image Slide Show Settings ............
  • Page 6 5-2 Create Your Own Clock (.clk) ............. 66 5-2-1 Create a Clock (.clk).................66 5-2-2 Upload a Clock (.clk) ................74 5-3 Upload the CAYIN Skin File into SMP ........74 5-4 Apply Skin ..................75 6. Content Update and Media Folder Management ....76 6-1 Update Media Folder ..............
  • Page 7 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 7-3-2 Restart/Shutdown System..............92 7-3-3 Upload Background Image...............93 7-3-4 Export/Import/Restore System Settings ...........94 7-3-5 System Recovery ................94 7-4 Display Settings ................95 7-4-1 Configure Display Properties (SMP-PRO4) ........95 7-4-2 Configure Display Properties (SMP-PROPLUS) ......97 7-4-3 Configure Display Properties (SMP-PRO3/PRO3N) ......99 7-4-4 Video Input Settings .................99 7-4-5 Turn On / Off Display ..............101...

  • Page 8: Smp-Pro Series Overview

    1-4 Hardware Specifications ........... 6 1-5 System Specifications ..........7 1-6 Install SMP-PRO Series ..........9 1-6-1 Install Hardware ............9 1-6-2 Login on SMP-PRO Series ......... 9 1-6-3 Remote PC Login ............12 1-7 Wall Mount Installation ........... 13...

  • Page 9: Smp-Pro4 Appearance

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL SMP-PRO Series, the dedicated digital signage media player, is a powerful zone-type display engine for marketing and communication professionals to communicate with target audiences in designated locations by high-quality videos, audios, graphics, and texts. SMP- PRO Series provides an easy-to-use platform where they can promote, inform, educate, and entertain specific audiences in a variety of commercial applications.

  • Page 10: Smp-Proplus Appearance

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 1-2 SMP-PROPLUS Appearance 1-2-1 Front View (P/N: LB-300) 1. Power Indicator 2. Hard Disk Indicator 3. Reset 4. Power 1-2-2 Rear View (P/N: LB-300) 6 7 8 1. Power Connector 2. RS-232 3. Ethernet 4. VGA 5.

  • Page 11: Front View (P/N: Lb-500)

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 1-2-3 Front View (P/N: LB-500) 1. Power Button 2. DVI Connector 3. MIC-IN (Reserved) 4. Audio-out 5. PWR/HDD Indicator 1-2-4 Rear View (P/N: LB-500) 1. RS-232 x 2 2. VGA Connector 3. Ethernet LAN...

  • Page 12: Smp-Pro3/Smp-Pro3N Appearance

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 1-3 SMP-PRO3/SMP-PRO3N Appearance 1-3-1 Front View - SMP-PRO3/SMP-PRO3N (P/N: LB-400, LB-400N) 1. Power & HDD Indicators 2. Front USB Connectors 1-3-2 Rear View - SMP-PRO3 (P/N: LB-400) 1. AV-in 2. RS-232 3. Power Connector 4. Ethernet 5. AV-out 6.

  • Page 13: Hardware Specifications

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 1-4 Hardware Specifications SMP-PROPLUS SMP-PROPLUS SMP-PRO3/PRO3N SMP-PRO4 (P/N: LB-300) (P/N: LB-500) (P/N: LB-400/LB-400N) (P/N: LB-700) Dimension 44 (H) x 380 (W) x 195 43 (H) x 222 (W) x 135...

  • Page 14: System Specifications

    ● RAW DV (SMP-PROPLUS, SMP-PRO4 only) ● H.264 (SMP-PROPLUS, SMP-PRO4 only) Network Streaming ● CAYIN RTB (Encapsulation Method: MPEG TS , Codec: MPEG-2/MPEG-4, bit rate: 1~5 Mbps) ● RTP (Encapsulation Method: MPEG TS , Codec: MPEG-2/MPEG-4) ● HTTP/MMS Video Resolutions ●...
  • Page 15 (eg. codec, bit-rate, screen resolution, or other component run with video at same time… etc.). Please test the video on SMP players in advance. CAYIN DOES NOT GUARANTEE EVERY VIDEO FILE CAN BE PLAYED ON SMP PLAYERS PROPERLY WITHOUT TESTING BEFOREHAND.

  • Page 16: Install Smp-Pro Series

    6. Once you see the LOGIN page on the screen, you already complete the installation. 1-6-2 Login on SMP-PRO Series At any time, you can switch After installing SMP, please login and complete the initial settings between playback and Web based on your network environment.
  • Page 17 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL Static IP If you are in the static IP network, please follow below steps to login and complete network settings. 1. Connect a keyboard and a mouse to USB connectors on the SMP player and connect the power adapter to a socket to turn on the system.
  • Page 18 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Wizard Mode Advanced Mode...

  • Page 19: Remote Pc Login

    IP address of the SMP. After you login successfully, you can start to manage SMP. 3. You can also open the Media Folder of any player by "CAYIN Device Seeker". Select the player you want to connect, and click [Open Folder].

  • Page 20: Wall Mount Installation

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 1-7 Wall Mount Installation If you would like to wall mount your SMP player, please read this section for installation instructions. Here we take SMP-PRO4 for illustration. 1. Please find the enclosed brackets and mounting screws. The enclosed accessories, such as brackets and screws, may differ from the product...

  • Page 21: Configuration In Wizard Mode

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Configuration in Wizard Mode 2-1 Upload Files to SMP Player ........15 2-2 Wizard Mode Introduction ........18 2-3 Network Wizard ............18 2-3-1 Step1: Ethernet Configuration ........18 2-3-2 Step2: Wifi Configuration (Optional)......19 2-3-3 Step3: Ping Gateway ..........

  • Page 22: Upload Files To Smp Player

    SMP- PRO series players. Method 1: 1. Insert the product CD into your CD-ROM, and run [CAYIN Device Seeker] (\Tool\Device Seeker\seeker.exe). You can also copy this file to your PC for future management.
  • Page 23 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL Method 2: 1. Open [File Explorer], and enter the "\\hostname" or “\\IP address”. For example, if your hostname is SMP-PROPLUS, please enter \\SMP-PROPLUS or \\172.16.1.2. 2. Copy multimedia files from your PC to the SMP player via Network Neighborhood and then you can start to play those files in the SMP player.
  • Page 24 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Method 4: 1. Login to SMP Web Manager and click “Media Folder” in main page. 2. Go to “Media Folder Management” and tick “Enable FTP service” checkbox. 3. Please enter username and password here. The default ID/PW is smbuser/smbuser. If you want to change password, please tick “Change User mode password”...

  • Page 25: Wizard Mode Introduction

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 2-2 Wizard Mode Introduction When you open SMP Web Manager, you can choose to use Wizard Mode by clicking the [Wizard Mode] button. After entering the Wizard mode, you will see four wizards: Network Wizard, System Wizard, Content Update Wizard, and Playback Wizard.

  • Page 26: Step2: Wifi Configuration (Optional)

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com consequently the SMP player can only connect to a CMS server in the same LAN (not across networks or on the Internet). If you are not sure about the Ethernet network settings, please contact your ISP or network administrator.

  • Page 27: Step3: Ping Gateway

    3. Please specify the DHCP or static IP address for the wireless connection of the SMP player. We suggest you use static IP address for more stable If you need a compatible Wi-Fi adaptor, please contact CAYIN Wireless connection. sales representative, or authorized resellers. 2-3-3 Step3: Ping Gateway When the DHCP server is unstable and results in poor network connection, the function "ping gateway"...

  • Page 28: System Wizard

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 2-4 System Wizard You can configure time, language, display, and security settings here. 2-4-1 Step1: Time & Language Settings Here you can configure the date, time, and language for Web Manager. First, please select the right time zone of your location. If the SMP player is connected to the Internet, it is suggested to use an NTP server (e.g.

  • Page 29: Step2: Display Settings

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 2-4-2 Step2: Display Settings Here you can configure the settings relevant to the display device. According to the actual screen connected to the SMP player, please configure its screen resolution and refresh rate. Most flat displays can support the refresh rate of 60Hz.
  • Page 30 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 2. If you want to turn off the display (SMP will cut down the VGA or DVI output automatically), please set a specific time of a day Most screens will enter the or day of week to cut off the VGA/DVI signal at the bottom of sleep mode when the VGA this page.

  • Page 31: Step3: Media Folder Security Settings

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL SMP-PRO3/SMP-PRO3N If you are using SMP-PRO3/ PRO3N player, the display will have black area when using composite output mode. If you choose Composite/ S-Video output, SMP can only operate on resolution 800x600.

  • Page 32: Content Update Wizard

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 2-5 Content Update Wizard 2-5-1 Content Update Settings Here you can configure the content synchronization of the Media Folder with a CMS server. If the SMP player is only for offline use and does not connect to a CMS server, please skip this wizard.

  • Page 33: Playback Wizard

    You can also multimedia zone, you will skip upload your self-designed skins (created by CAYIN’s Skin Step 6 Ticker Text and do not need to configure the settings Editor) from the bottom of the page for uses.

  • Page 34: Step2: Multimedia 1

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 2-6-2 Step2: Multimedia 1 Here you can edit the playlist of the selected skin's multimedia area. First, you can select the content source via drop down menu; whether you want to play files stored in the SMP's Media Folder or a USB storage device.

  • Page 35: Step3: Multimedia 2

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 2-6-3 Step3: Multimedia 2 Configurations are the same as Multimedia 1. You need to configure the settings here only when you select a skin with two multimedia zones. Only SMP-PROPLUS supports two multimedia zones.

  • Page 36: Step6: Ticker Text

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 2-6-6 Step6: Ticker Text Here you can configure the settings of text ticker area. There are various sources of the ticker text for choices. The text can be directly entered here, read from a .txt file in the Media Folder, retrieved from an RSS feed or remote URL, or centrally scheduled and managed by the CMS server.

  • Page 37: Multimedia Contents Playback And Management

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Multimedia Contents Playback and Management 3-1 Upload Multimedia Contents ........31 3-2 Choose Your Skin ............ 34 3-3 Choose Media Source and Set Playlist ....35 3-3-1 Play Files in Media Folder .......... 35 3-3-2 Play Files in USB Storage Device ......

  • Page 38: Upload Multimedia Contents

    When you choose to play files from the Media Folder, you can choose one of the following methods to upload files into SMP player. Method 1: 1. Insert the product CD into your CD-ROM, and run [CAYIN Your PC and the SMP player Device Seeker] (\Tool\Device Seeker\seeker.exe). You have to be in the same LAN, can also copy this file to your PC for future management.
  • Page 39 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL Method 2: Within the same subnet, user of a Windows PC has two methods to connect to SMP player or CMS server: 1. Open [File Explorer], and enter the "\\hostname" or “\\IP address”. For example, if your hostname is SMP-PROPLUS, please enter \\SMP-PROPLUS or \\172.16.1.2.
  • Page 40 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Method 4: 1. Login to SMP Web Manager and click “Media Folder” in the main page. 2. Go to “Media Folder Management” and tick “Enable FTP service” checkbox. 3. Please enter username and password here. The default ID/PW is smbuser/smbuser. If you want to change password, please tick “Change User mode password”...

  • Page 41: Choose Your Skin

    You can also upload your self-designed skins (created by CAYIN Skin Editor) from the bottom of the page. If you want to use a CMS server to control the playlist of this SMP player, please select “Central Scheduling”...

  • Page 42: Choose Media Source And Set Playlist

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3-3 Choose Media Source and Set Playlist 3-3-1 Play Files in Media Folder After uploading all files to the Media Folder, please follow the following steps to edit playlist. 1. Login SMP player and enter Web Manager. 2.
  • Page 43 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 6. Select the files you want to play. You can select multiple files at one time by holding the Shift or Ctrl key, or just select files one by one. In the left column, the item with “*” sign represents a folder’s name.
  • Page 44 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 7. Click [Select=>], and all selected files in the left column will be duplicated to the right column. SMP will only play those files in the right column. 8. If you want to play all files in the media folder, you can simply click the [Select all=>] button.

  • Page 45: Play Files In Usb Storage Device

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 3-3-2 Play Files in USB Storage T h e U S B f i l e s y s t e m Device supported by SMP players are as followings: Select “USB storage device”...

  • Page 46: Rtb/Rtp Streaming

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3-3-4 RTB/RTP Streaming SMP players only support SMP, incorporating with a CMS server, can play streaming video. MPEG-2 & MPEG-4 RTB/RTP To play streaming video as RTB (Real-Time Broadcast) client, streaming. select the channel corresponding to the client’s server, i.e. CMS server.

  • Page 47: Http/Mms Streaming

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 3-3-5 HTTP/MMS Streaming To play video file via HTTP or MMS streaming, e.g. video file on a web server or MMS server, enter the URL of the file in this option.

  • Page 48: Mute Function

    [Mute] option to stop the audio playback. 3-4 Image Slide Show Settings Please remember to go to the SMP-PRO Series supports two image slide show areas. You “SKIN MANAGER” page can configure it separately to display different image files on the...
  • Page 49 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL Please refer the following table for detail descriptions: Play all image files in Media Folder Play all files in the media folder, including the top-level directory and subfolders (depend on your configuration.) Central Scheduling Select this option let you control the slideshow playlist from CMS server.

  • Page 50: Ticker

    .txt files from the drop down menu. The message in the text file will be displayed. SMP-PRO series now supports UTF-8 character encoding. If the content is not written in English, please choose encoding type “UTF-8” when you save the text file.

  • Page 51: Define Font Format

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 3-5-1 Define Font Format In this section, you can change the font type, size, and color of the ticker. You can also change the direction of the text from “left to right” or “right to left” to suit your own language We provide two methods for you to change the font color.

  • Page 52: Set Background Color

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3-5-2 Set Background Color You can choose a suitable color or enable single background color for your ticker background. Otherwise, the ticker background will be transparent to Skin background. 1. Enter Web Manager and go to PLAYBACK > TICKER page.

  • Page 53: Volume

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 2. Choose one of options from “No scrolling effect”, “Simple crawl”, “Simple bottom-up”, and “Bottom-up and The moving speed of the crawl”. Set a suitable speed. “1” represents the slowest ticker will be different based on different screen resolutions.

  • Page 54: Edit Schedule On Smp Player (Local Schedule)

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Edit Schedule on SMP Player (Local Schedule) 4-1 Skin ................48 4-2 Multimedia Zone ............49 4-3 Image Slide Show Zone .......... 51 4-4 Ticker Zone .............. 53 4-5 Volume ..............55...

  • Page 55: Skin

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL In this section, you can schedule playlists for skin, multimedia zone, image slide show zone, ticker zone and volume. You can also change to play different media sources at specified time.

  • Page 56: Multimedia Zone

    4. Select a skin. You can choose one from local skins or select You can design your own skin “No Skin” and play your multimedia files in full screen. If you by “CAYIN Skin Editor” want to use CMS to centrally schedule skin files, please and upload it to Web Manager.
  • Page 57 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 3. Click [Add Schedule] button and you will see a pop-up window. 4. Name your new schedule here. e.g. “Training Course”. Then, set the “Start Time” and the “End Time” for your schedule.

  • Page 58: Image Slide Show Zone

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 5. Please select a multimedia source and follow the configuration options in this page to finish the Multimedia local scheduling. T h e U S B f i l e s y s t e m Please refer to section 3-3 for detailed descriptions of each supported by SMP players are option.
  • Page 59 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 4. Name your new schedule here. e.g. “AD-1”. Then, set the “Day of the week”, “Start Time” and the “End Time” for your schedule. 5. Select a content source. You can play all image files in Media Folder, or play contents from CMS server.

  • Page 60: Ticker Zone

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 4-4 Ticker Zone When you add a schedule for the ticker zone, it will be applied only to the specified period of time (e.g. 11 to 13). SMP will playback based on the Y o u c a n a d d u p t o 9 9 settings in the default schedule during the rest of the time.
  • Page 61 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 3. Name your new schedule here. e.g. “Lunch-AD”. Then, set “Day of the week”, “Start Time” and the “End Time” for your schedule. 4. Select a content source. You can enter the text here or ask SMP to retrieve data from a file in Media Folder or from remote URL/RSS.

  • Page 62: Volume

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 4-5 Volume When you add a schedule for the system volume, it will be Y o u c a n a d d u p t o 9 9 applied only to the specified period of time (e.g. 6 am to 10 am). scheduling tasks.

  • Page 63: Skin Management

    5-1-4 Edit a Skin File in Skin Template ........ 65 5-2 Create Your Own Clock (.clk) ......... 66 5-2-1 Create a Clock (.clk)........... 66 5-2-2 Upload a Clock (.clk) ..........74 5-3 Upload the CAYIN Skin File into SMP ....74 5-4 Apply Skin ..............75...

  • Page 64: Create Your Own Skin

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com You can create your own skin via CAYIN Skin Editor, upload it to players, and adopt it into your contents. In this section, If you are using Windows you can manage your own skin displayed as a background on Vista or Windows 7, please which video, image, and ticker play.

  • Page 65: Create A New Skin File (.Csk)

    USER MANUAL 5-1-2 Create a new skin file (.csk) By using CAYIN Skin Editor program, you can make your own skin for SMP players. Please follow the steps below to build your own skin. 1. Execute the program Skin Editor in Start menu or on your desktop.
  • Page 66 You can also select "User define" resolutions which you pre- to configure your own resolution. Click [OK] to proceed. edit by CAYIN Skin Editor. So, we suggest you upload all possible resolutions, in case you need to use the skin in different situations.
  • Page 67 You can also import your own background image. 9. Now please choose which zones you want to edit first. For CAYIN’s Skin Editor will example, if you want to edit a multimedia zone first, please detect which kinds of zones...
  • Page 68 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 10. When you configure the clock area, you can only adjust the size of the clock area by selecting a pre-defined size, and place it in any position you want. There are two types of clocks: analog and digital.
  • Page 69 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 12. If you upload more than one resolution for your skin, please select other resolutions from the upper side drop down menu and start over the configuration process. You may discover in some...
  • Page 70 Publish Skin icon on the toor bar or go to File > Publish Skin. You can upload the .csk file into SMP players or CMS by Web Manager later. More information about CAYIN Skin Editor are as follows: Create a New Skin...

  • Page 71: Upload A Skin File Into Skin Template

    .csk file, you can easily upload a new skin to Skin Editor. 1. Download a ".csk" file from CAYIN's partner website to your PC. 2. Open CAYIN Skin Editor and go to Template > Manage Skin Templates and click [Import] button. Choose the skin you want to import and press [Open].

  • Page 72: Edit A Skin File In Skin Template

    Template. Please follow steps below to reload and adjust skin any further modification. settings. 1. Open the CAYIN Skin Editor. 2. Go to File > Load skin from template. You will see a pop-up menu. 3. Choose the skin you want to adjust and click [Load].

  • Page 73: Create Your Own Clock (.Clk)

    5-2 Create Your Own Clock (.clk) 5-2-1 Create a Clock (.clk) You can use CAYIN Skin Editor to create your personal clock file (.clk). 1. Go to Template > Manage Clock Templates. 2. Click [New], you will see a pop-up window. You can name your clock; choose the clock type and how many resolutions you want to create for your clock (Size) here.
  • Page 74 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Analog Clock: If you choose analog clock, you will see an analog clock pop-up window. General Settings 1. Select your clock background here. You have to import an The clock dimension is max. image file as your clock background image (Clock face).
  • Page 75 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL Date 1. If you want to show the date, please choose [True]; otherwise please choose [False] to disable and skip this step. 2. Input the exact coordinate value (x,y) to decide the location of the date. You can also choose...
  • Page 76 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3. After finishing all the resolutions you just configured, please click [OK]. Now you can see your own personal skin in Clock Template window. Digital Clock (Image): The concept of Digital Clock (image) is using the image to compose a clock.
  • Page 77 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 2. After importing the background image, you can see the preview on the right hand side of the window. You can also enable the “12/24 mode” function for 12 hour or 24 hour clock.
  • Page 78 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Year/Month/Day/Day of Week 1. Please follow the same process to import images in year/month/day and day of week columns. 2. Then, you can choose to enable “AM/PM” function and import the image to this column. 3.
  • Page 79 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL Digital Clock (Text): If you choose digital clock (text), you will see a digital clock (text) clock pop-up window. General Settings 1. Select your clock background here. Please note you have to P l e a s e i m p o r t o n e p r e - import an image file as your clock background image.
  • Page 80 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Year/Month/Day/Day of Week 1. Please follow the same process to import images in year/ Please make sure to enter a month/day and day of week columns. serial text when you input text 2. In month/day of week and AM/PM columns, you can enter in month/day of week and AM/ PM columns.

  • Page 81: Upload A Clock (.Clk)

    You can download new Clock templates (.clk) from CAYIN’s PartnerNet website, and upload them into Skin Editor. 1. Download a ".clk" file from CAYIN's partner website to your PC, or have any existing ".clk" file at hand. 2. Open the CAYIN Skin Editor and go to Template >...

  • Page 82: Apply Skin

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 5-4 Apply Skin After the skin is uploaded into system, go to Playback > Skin to make changes of your favorite skin. 1. Login Web Manager. 2. Go to PLAYBACK > SKIN page. Please refer to the following table for more functions. No Skin Choose this option if you want to play Multimedia Content in full screen mode.

  • Page 83: Content Update And Media Folder Management

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Content Update and Media Folder Management 6-1 Update Media Folder ..........77 6-2 Manage Media Folder ..........81...

  • Page 84: Update Media Folder

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com In this section, you can enable automatic content update function of Media Folder with CMS server. You can also configure the settings of access authorization of Media Folder. 6-1 Update Media Folder In addition to Network Neighborhood, you can update the S M P p l a y e r c a n n o t content of Media Folder automatically with CMS server or a web synchronize any file bigger or...
  • Page 85 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 2. Enable the “Media Folder content synchronization” function and SMP player will periodically download new or If you have files copied in updated files from CMS’s Content Update Server. It also the player and then enable removes those files that no longer exist in CMS server.
  • Page 86 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 6 . S p e c i f y e x c l u s i v e t i m e ( s ) f o r c o n t e n t synchronization: When you enable this function, the I f t h e S M P p l a y e r i s SMP player will synchronize contents with CMS server at the...
  • Page 87 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 9. You can also synchronize contents from your own web server, if you don't have a CMS server. Please enable "Web server" and enter the playlist's URL here. SMP player will send the HTTP request to the URL (e.g.

  • Page 88: Manage Media Folder

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 6-2 Manage Media Folder In this section, you can set share mode of Media Folder (on network neighborhood) for users. Do not share Media folder The folder will not be shared. Select “Share mode” if you allow open access of all users. In this mode, users can Share mode access the folder without username and password.

  • Page 89: System Status And Settings

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com System Status and Settings 7-1 System Status ............83 7-1-1 Basic Information ............84 7-1-2 Advanced Information ..........84 7-1-3 Firmware Information ..........85 7-2 System Settings ............86 7-2-1 Set System Time ............86 7-2-2 NTP Service ...............

  • Page 90: System Status

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com In this chapter you can access comprehensive system information about a SMP-PRO series player. You can also configure system settings. 7-1 System Status Login Web Manager of SMP and you will see the [SYSTEM STATUS] page.

  • Page 91: Basic Information

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 7-1-1 Basic Information You can check the Hostname, Product Model, Firmware Version, and Date/Time of a SMP player in this section. You can specify the hostname in “8-1 Ethernet” section, and change the date/time/time-zone in “7-2-1 Set System Time”...

  • Page 92: Firmware Information

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com CPU Temperature You can monitor the real-time CPU temperature and avoid the thermal shutdown problem in advance. Please refer to the list below for more detailed information. Product Model Max. CPU Temperature (Reference) SMP-PROPLUS 100 degree Celsius SMP-PRO4...

  • Page 93: System Settings

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 7-2 System Settings In this section, you can configure basic system settings and maintain the system with firmware update, system restart, and system shutdown. 7-2-1 Set System Time You can set the system date and time manually for the SMP player.

  • Page 94: Ntp Service

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 7-2-2 NTP Service You can enable NTP function to synchronize the clocks of media players from an NTP server automatically (e.g. time.nist.gov). SMP will update the system time from NTP server every 7 days or when the system restarts.

  • Page 95: Change Web Administrator's Password

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 7-2-3 Change Web Administrator’s Password If the administrator forgets the password, you can re- You can leave this option checked to change administrator’s set the password on the SMP password.

  • Page 96: Choose Web Manager Language

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 7-2-5 Choose Web Manager Language SMP-PRO series supports nine languages, which are English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Polish, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. You can select an appropriate language setting here. 7-2-6 Set System Reboot You can assign up to three particular day and time sections within a day that SMP will restart automatically.

  • Page 97: Frequency Of Server Communication

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 7 - 2 - 7 F r e q u e n c y o f S e r v e r Communication You can adjust the frequency parameters for several SMP/ CMS services.
  • Page 98 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3. Click [SAVE] to adopt the changes. 4. Click [Configure RS-232 (COM port) commands] button and you will see a pop-up window shows. 5. Click [Add RS-232 Command] button and you can add/edit command here. Name your command first, and choose a command type in drop down menu.

  • Page 99: System Maintenance

    Please only upload firmware You can update new firmware of SMP in the SYSTEM > provided by CAYIN. Upload System Maintenance page. We suggest you update the u n k n o w n f i r m w a r e m a y damage the system.

  • Page 100: Upload Background Image

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 7-3-3 Upload Background Image If you are not sure about the Here you can change the system background image to your display ratio, please upload favorite one. both a wide (16:9) and a standard resolution (4:3) image here.

  • Page 101: Export/Import/Restore System Settings

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 7 - 3 - 4 E x p o r t / I m p o r t / R e s t o r e You can only upload this file...

  • Page 102: Display Settings

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 7-4 Display Settings In this section, you can configure those settings related to the display. Please follow the following steps: 7-4-1 Configure Display Properties (SMP-PRO4) There are two output methods you can choose from in SMP- PRO4.
  • Page 103 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL Screen Resolution 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 1280x720 (720p), 1280x768, 1360x768, 1366x768, 1600x900, User Define. Refresh Rate Auto, 60, 70, 72, or 75. Clone: T w o s c r e e n s w i t h o n e...

  • Page 104: Configure Display Properties (Smp-Proplus)

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Landscape Screen Portrait Screen Screen Resolution User Interface: 1600x900 User Interface: 1600x900 Max by User define: 2048x2048 Max by User define: 2048x2048 Min. by User define: 320x240 Min. by User define: 320x240 Video Resolution 1x720p (10M bps) 1x480p (5M bps) 6.
  • Page 105 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL * User Define If you can not select a suitable refresh rate on the list, you can W e D O N O T g u a r a n t e e choose “User Define”...

  • Page 106: Configure Display Properties (Smp-Pro3/Pro3N)

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 7-4-3 Configure Display Properties (SMP-PRO3/PRO3N) 1. Login SMP Web Manager. 2. Click [SYSTEM] and switch to “DISPLAY” page. 3. Select a screen resolution and refresh rate. You can specify a predefined screen resolution and refresh rate. Screen Resolution 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x1024, 1280x720 (720p), 1280x768, 1360x768, 1366x768,...
  • Page 107 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 3. Please refer to the following table for all functions. Select Input Select your input type here. Device Description Description of your input device. TV Standard Set video input type. The input type can be NTSC, PAL and SECAM.

  • Page 108: Turn On / Off Display

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 7-4-5 Turn On / Off Display The display command feature You can choose to turn on or turn off the screen remotely with o n l y w o r k s w i t h d i s p l a y SMP player (by cutting down the VGA signal).

  • Page 109: Network Settings

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Network Settings 8-1 Ethernet ..............103 8-2 Wireless Network ........... 104...

  • Page 110: Ethernet

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com In this section, you can assign a group name and hostname for a SMP player and define the network connection mode. SMP C h e c k n e t w o r k b y players with the same Group name will be managed altogether pinging gateway: for content update and central scheduling.

  • Page 111: Wireless Network

    IP address for more stable connection of the SMP player. Wireless connection. Please contact CAYIN to purchase compatible USB Wi-Fi adaptors. If you purchase Wi-Fi adaptor b y y o u r s e l f , w e c a n n o t guarantee its guality and compatibility.

  • Page 112: Log Management

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Log Management 9-1 Enable Syslog ............106 9-2 Use log_rcv to Change PORT ....... 107 9-3 View Logs .............. 108 9-4 Export Log File ............. 109...

  • Page 113: Enable Syslog

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL In this section, you can make related settings of log files. Log function helps you to create or read log records. Syslog function allows separate log software to retrieve and further analyze.

  • Page 114: Use Log_Rcv To Change Port

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 9-2 Use log_r cv to Change PORT When SMP players send log files to log-rcv through TCP, the default port number for both SMP and log-rcv is 35000. You can The max. port range is 65535. follow stpes below to change the port number for log_rce to receive log files.

  • Page 115: View Logs

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL 3. Open log_rcv.bat. System will run the log_rcv.exe automatically. 9-3 View Logs You can check the log records in the SMP player. 1. Login SMP Web Manager and you will see the [LOG] page.

  • Page 116: Export Log File

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 9-4 Export Log File The export procedures will You can export the log records; then, edit or analyze with your vary from browser to browser. favorite text editor software, such as Notepad, Excel, etc. Please follow the instructions of your browser.

  • Page 117: Smp Console

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP Console...
  • Page 118 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com You can press CTRL-ALT-Backspace to exit GUI mode into text console to make some low-level management. The changes you make here will take effect after the system restarts. Viewing System Information View firmware, CPU, memory, and disk information. Network Management Configure Ethernet network or use ping to check network configurations.

  • Page 119: System Recovery

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com System Recovery...
  • Page 120 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com If you encounter any unrecoverable problem (e.g. unable to boot up) while using SMP client, you can choose this function, System Recovery, to restore your system firmware to factory default. Follow the steps below to recover the system: 1.

  • Page 121: Appendix

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Appendix Use “log_rcv” to collect syslog from clients .....115...

  • Page 122: Use "Log_Rcv" To Collect Syslog From Clients

    All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Use “log_rcv” to collect syslog from clients “log_rcv.exe” is a simple tool helping you to collect syslogs from SMP clients. You can find this program in product CD (\ Tool\log receiver). Do not run the program “log_ rcv.exe”...
  • Page 123 All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com SMP-PRO SERIES USER MANUAL All the log records are stored in daily basis and each host has its own files. billing All playback log records are stored here for billing information. Each host has its own billing log file.

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