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CAYIN TECHNOLOGY
SIGNAGE MEDIA PLAYER: SMP-PRO SERIES
User Manual
CAYIN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
8F, NO. 577, Lnsen N. Rd.,
Tape Cty104, Tawan, R.O.C.
TEL: +886--595 1005
FAX: +886--595 1050
007
Cayn Technology Co., Ltd.
All Rghts Reserved
SMP-PRO2
Verson .0
Verson .5
SMP-PRO3/PRO3N
Verson 1.0

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  • Page 1 SIGNAGE MEDIA PLAYER: SMP-PRO SERIES SMP-PRO2 Verson .0 Verson .5 User Manual SMP-PRO3/PRO3N Verson 1.0 CAYIN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 8F, NO. 577, Lnsen N. Rd., Tape Cty104, Tawan, R.O.C. TEL: +886--595 1005 FAX: +886--595 1050 007 Cayn Technology Co., Ltd.

  • Page 2: About Cayin

    Copyright © 2007 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-PRO2 Hardware Specifications ............2 1-2 SMP-PRO3/SMP-PRO3N Hardware Specifications ........4 1-3 System Specifications ..................6 1-4 Install SMP ....................7 1-4-1 Login on SMP .......................8 1-4-2 Remote PC Login ....................10...
  • Page 4 3-1-2 Create a new skin file (.csk) .................33 3-1-3 Re-adjust a skin file (.csk) ..................37 3-1-4 Upload Clock (.clk) ....................38 3-2 Upload the Cayin Skin File into SMP ............39 3-3 Apply Skin ....................40 4. Content Update and Media Folder Management ..........41 4-1 Update Media Folder ...................42...
  • Page 5 4-2 Manage Media Folder .................46 5. System Status and Settings ................47 5-1 System Status ....................48 5-1-1 Basic Information....................48 5-1-2 Advanced Information ..................49 5-1-3 Firmware Information ..................50 5-2 System Management and Firmware Update ..........51 5-2-1 Set System Time ....................51 5-2-2 NTP Service ......................52 5-2-3 Change Web Administrator’s Password ...............53 5-2-4 Choose Web Manager Language .................53 5-2-5 Set System Reboot ....................54...
  • Page 6 7. Log Management ....................63 7-1 Enable Syslog .....................64 7-2 View Logs ....................65 7-3 Export Log File ..................66 8. SMP Console .....................67 9. System Recovery ....................69 Appendix: Use “log_rcv” to collect syslog from clients ........71...

  • Page 7: Smp-Pro Series Overview

    SMP-PRO Series Overview 1-1 SMP-PRO2 Hardware Specifications ...........2 1-2 SMP-PRO3/SMP-PRO3N Hardware Specifications ....4 1-3 System Specifications ..............6 1-4 Install SMP ...................7 1-4-1 Login on SMP ..............8 1-4-2 Remote PC Login ..............10...

  • Page 8: Smp-Pro2 Hardware Specifications

    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. 1-1 SMP-PRO2 Hardware Specifications Dmenson 48.5 (H) x 4 (W) x 175 (D) mm...

  • Page 9: Front View

    Front View 4 5 6 7 Mc In Audo Out Network Indcator HD Indcator Power Indcator Power Rear View Power Connector COM Port (reserve for future use) TV OUT Ethernet USB x  Optcal Audo Out...

  • Page 10: Smp-Pro3/Smp-Pro3N Hardware Specifications

    1-2 SMP-PRO3/SMP-PRO3N Har dware Specifications Dmenson 44 (H) x 90 (W) x 150 (D) mm Materal Steel Color Black Net Weght .5 Kg (wth hard drve) Network 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Internal Storage 40G Byte, .5” IDE Hard-dsk Vdeo Out VGA D-Sub, Composte/S-Vdeo (NTSC/PAL) Audo Out RCA Stereo Vdeo In (PRO only)
  • Page 11 Front View 1. Power & HDD LED 2. Front USB connectors Rear View (SMP-PRO only) AV-n (SMP-PRO only) COM Port Power Connector Ethernet AV-Out VGA Connector (Output) 8. USB Connectors 9. Power Swtch S-Vdeo Out...

  • Page 12: System Specifications

    2. The maximum bit-rate and resolution might be different based on your file encoding methods. Please test the video on SMP players. Cayin does not guarantee all video files can be played on SMP players properly. 3. The applicable resolution is also related to the resolutions of your display. Please check the specifications of the...

  • Page 13: Install Smp

    1-4 Install SMP 1. Open SMP package. 2. Connect the power adapter to a socket. 3. Connect the Ethernet to LAN port. (By default, SMP will get an IP address from a DHCP server.) 4. Connect the VGA cable to your screen. (The default screen resolution is 800x600.) 5.

  • Page 14: Login On Smp

    1-4-1 Login on SMP After installing SMP, please login and complete the initial settings based on your network environment. A t a n y t i m e , y o u c a n A t a n y t i m e , y o u c a n switch between playback switch between playback ◎...
  • Page 15 ◎ 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 client and press the power button to turn on the system. Click [ LOGIN ] on the Web Manager, and enter a username and password.

  • Page 16: Remote Pc Login

    PC. 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 If your PC and SMP player Folder] .

  • Page 17: Multimedia Contents Playback And Management

    M u l t i m e d i a C o n t e n t s Playback and Management 2-1 Upload Multimedia Contents ............12 2-2 Choose Media Source and Set Playlist ........14 2-2-1 Play Files in Media Folder ..........14 2-2-2 Play Files in USB Storage Device ........17 2-2-3 Central Scheduling (by CMS Server) ........18 2-2-4 RTB Streaming ..............19...

  • Page 18: Upload Multimedia Contents

    SMP player. Method 1: 1. Insert the product CD into your CD-ROM, and run [Cayin Device Seeker] ( \Tool\Device Seeker\cysrch.exe ). You can also copy this file to your PC for future management.
  • Page 19 1. Open [ File Explorer ], and enter the \\hostname or “ \\IP address ”. For use Cayin Device Seeker to example, if your hostname is SMP-PRO2, please enter \\SMP-PRO2 open the Media Folder of or \\172.16.1.2. Copy multimedia files from your PC to the SMP that SMP player.

  • Page 20: Choose Media Source And Set Playlist

    2-2 Choose Media Source and Set Playlist 2-2-1 Play Files in Media Folder After uploading all files to the Media Folder, you can follow the following steps to edit playlist. 1. Login SMP player and enter Web Manager 2. Click [PLAYBACK] and select [MULTIMEDIA] page 3.
  • Page 21 4. Click [Edit Playlist] , and you will see a pop-up window. All video files in the Media Folder will be listed in the left column. If the left column is empty, that means there is no file in the Media Folder. Please add video files to Media Folder first.
  • Page 22 6. 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. 7. If you want to play all files in the media folder, you can simply click the [ Select all=>...

  • Page 23: Play Files In Usb Storage Device

    The playlist is the order how all multimedia files in the folder “media” are played. If you do not edit your own playlist, SMP will play all files in the Media Folder in the alphabetical order. If you create sub-folders under the folder “media”, all media files in these sub-folders will also be added together to the play list according to the following sorting rules: (the former rules have higher priority than the later ones)

  • Page 24: Central Scheduling (By Cms Server)

    2-2-3 Central Scheduling (by CMS Server) The playlist of media files can be centrally scheduled and controlled by CMS server when you purchase one. Please follow the following Centra l Sc hed uling onl y steps: works with CMS’s Central 1.

  • Page 25: Rtb Streaming

    2-2-4 RTB Streaming SMP, incorporating with a CMS server, can play streaming video. To play streaming video as RTB (Real-Time Broadcast) client, select RTB and RTP are different the channel corresponding to the client’s server, i.e. CMS server. To protocols. play Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) streaming, enter the port ．RTB Client only works number of the relevant RTP server.

  • Page 26: Http/Mms Streaming

    2-2-5 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. 2-2-6 Video Input (SMP-PRO3 only) To play AV-IN signal on the multimedia area, please select this item, and refer to section 5.4 for detailed video input configurations.

  • Page 27: Image Slide Show Settings

    2-3 Image Slide Show Settings SMP-PRO series supports two image slide show areas. You can configure it separately to display different image files on the screen. Please remember to go to t h e “ S K I N M A N A G E R ” page and select a skin with a t l e a s t o n e p r e - e d i t e d I m a g e S l i d e...
  • Page 28 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 drectory and subfolders (depend on your configuration.) Play image files in subfolder Create a subfolder in Media Folder first; then put image files in the subfolder.

  • Page 29: Ticker

    2-4 Ticker Configure ticker text and option here. Select from multiple sources for the ticker text, and set up the font and the color of ticker area. Please follow the following steps: Please remember to go to t h e “ S K I N M A N A G E R ” 1.

  • Page 30: Define Font Format

    2-4-1 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 31 You can also choose a color by color picker. O n l y w h e n y o u u s e 1. Enter Web Manager. Click [ PLAYBACK ] and select [ TICKER ] page Internet Explore 5.5 or 2.

  • Page 32: Set Background Color

    2-4-2 Set Background Color You can enable single color background and choose a suitable color for the background of your ticker. O n l y w h e n y o u u s e We provide two methods for you to change the background color. I n t e r n e t E x p l o r e 5 .

  • Page 33: Enable Marquee

    2-4-3 Enable Marquee You can change the speed of the scrolling text here. Please follow the following steps: The moving speed of the t i c k e r w i l l b e d i f f e r e n t 1.

  • Page 34: Multimedia Source Schedule

    2 - 5 M u l t i m e d i a S o u r c e Schedule In this section, you can schedule playlists of files from the Media Folder. You can also change to play different media sources at Y o u c a n c l i c k [ E d i t ] specified time.

  • Page 35: Add Schedule

    2-5-1 Add Schedule When you click [ Add Schedule ], the saved playback option will be applied only to the specified period of time (e.g. 6 am to 10 am). Y o u c a n a d d u p t o 9 9 SMP will play files according to the settings in the default schedule scheduling tasks.
  • Page 36 5. Select those 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. If you choose this item, it means you will select all files in this folder.

  • Page 37: Skin Management

    3-1 Produce Skin ................32 3-1-1 Install Skin Editor ..............32 3-1-2 Create a new skin file (.csk) ..........33 3-1-3 Re-adjust a skin file (.csk) ...........37 3-1-4 Upload Clock (.clk) .............38 3-2 Upload the Cayin Skin File into SMP ........39 3-3 Apply Skin .................40...

  • Page 38: Produce Skin

    3-1 Produce Skin 3-1-1 Install Skin Editor You can find the editing tool, Cayin Skin Editor, in the product CD (in f older \Tool\Skin Editor). Click setup.exe to start the installation. Please follow the instructions prompted on the screen to finish the installation.

  • Page 39: Create A New Skin File (.Csk)

    3-1-2 Create a new skin file (.csk) By using the Cayin Skin Editor program (cyskin.exe), you can make your own skin for SMP-PRO series. Please follow the steps below, and build your own skin. 1. Execute the program cyskin.exe in Start menu or on your desktop.
  • Page 40 6. Please enter the skin name and the description of the skin and choose a suitable combination of multimedia contents for this skin design. You can only set up those You can define four areas at maximum: one “Multimedia”, two resolutions for which you “Image Slide Show”, one “Ticker”, and one “Clock”.
  • Page 41 7. After clicking [ Setup ], you can enter the Setup dialog box and easily use the drag-and-drop tool to define the display size and location for You may discover in some each area. zoom ratio, the quality of Click [ Multimedia (Orange) ] at the left side, and drag the area that background image seems you want put on the skin.
  • Page 42 10. Finally, when you set up the layout, click [ Publish… ] to save the Cayin Skin File (.csk). You can upload the .csk file into SMP-PRO series...

  • Page 43: Re-Adjust A Skin File (.Csk)

    You can reload a skin file and retrieve all the settings of that skin and make adjustments. 1. Open the Cayin Skin Tool 2. Click [ Load ], and open a skin file (.csk). 3. You can click [ Browse… ] to change image files, or click [ Next ] to change configures of the skin.

  • Page 44: Upload Clock (.Clk)

    You can periodically download new Clock templates (.clk extension) from Cayin’s partner website and upload them to SMP player. 1. Download a ".clk" file from Cayin's partner website to your PC. 2. Open the Cayin Skin Tool 3. Click [ Upload Clock ], and open a clock file (.clk).

  • Page 45: Upload The Cayin Skin File Into Smp

    2. In the “Upload Skin” area, click [ Browse ], find your file, and upload SMP-PRO2: You can only keep up to 9 skin files in one player, including the default one. SMP-PRO3: You can only keep up to 30 skin files in one player,...

  • Page 46: Apply Skin

    3-3 Apply Skin After the skin is uploaded into system, use select skin to choose your favorite skin background. You can manage and apply skins in the “SKIN MANAGER”. 1. Login Web Manager. 2. Click [ PLAYBACK ] and switch to [ SKIN MANAGER ] page. Please refer to the following table for more functions.

  • Page 47: Content Update And Media Folder Management

    C o n t e n t U p d a t e a n d M e d i a F o l d e r Management 4-1 Update Media Folder ..............42 4-2 Manage Media Folder ..............46...

  • Page 48: Update Media Folder

    In this section, you can enable automatic content update function of Media Folder with CMS server. You can also configure the settings If you have files copied in of access authorization of Media Folder. the player and then enable content update f rom the 4-1 Update Media Folder C MS se r v e r f o l d e r , y o u r f i l e s w i l l b e w i p e d o u t...
  • Page 49 3. Enable “Use hidden disk buffer”, if you would like to download files to a hidden disk space first. After downloading process completes, the system will copy all files to Media Folder at one time. The advantage of this function is to make sure that SMP will not play incomplete contents.
  • Page 50 Group Assgn the group name whch ths SMP playter belong to. Username The username s the account you create n CMS server, and ths account should be authorzed to mange ths group. Password User's password Hostname or IP address FQDN Hostname (eg. cms.cayntech.com) or IP address of CMS server.
  • Page 51 myvedio/video1.mpeg) in the playlist file will be treated as one individual URL. SMP playter will download new or updated URL(s) in the playlist, and remove the local files which do not exist in the playlist. You may type a text file like below and enter the URL of this text file in this field: By changing the text file, you can update the SMP playert's playlist in media folder.

  • Page 52: Manage Media Folder

    4-2 Manage Media Folder In this section, you can set share mode of Media Folder (on network neighborhood) for users. D o n o t s h a r e The folder wll not be shared. Meda folder Share mode Select “Share mode”...

  • Page 53: System Status And Settings

    S y s t e m S t a t u s a n d Settings 5-1 System Status ................48 5-1-1 Basic Information ..............48 5-1-2 Advanced Information ............49 5-1-3 Firmware Information ............50 5-2 System Management and Firmware Update ......51 5-2-1 Set System Time ..............51 5-2-2 NTP Service ...............52 5-2-3 Change Web Administrator’s Password ......53 5-2-4 Choose Web Manager Language .........53...

  • Page 54: System Status

    In this chapter you can access the comprehensive system information about SMP-PRO series. You can also configure system settings here. 5-1 System Status Login Web Manager; then you will see the [ SYSTEM STATUS ] page. 5-1-1 Basic Information You can check the Hostname, Product Model, Firmware Version, and Date/Time of SMP in this section.

  • Page 55: Advanced Information

    5-1-2 Advanced Information In this section, you can check all detailed information about this SMP player in the following table. CPU Utlzaton Usage of CPU Memory Usage Usage of system DRAM System Dsk Usage Disk usage of system firmware disk. If the usage exceeds 95%, we strongly suggest that you do not upload more patches for preventng from dsk overloaded.

  • Page 56: Firmware Information

    5-1-3 Firmware Information You can check all updated patches information here.

  • Page 57: System Management And Firmware Update

    5-2 System Management and Firmware Update In this section, you can configure basic system settings and maintain t h e s y s t e m w i t h f i r m w a r e u pd a t e, s y s t e m r es t a r t , a n d s y s t e m shutdown.

  • Page 58: Ntp Service

    5-2-2 NTP Service You can choose NTP function to synchronize the clocks of media players to 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. 1. Login SMP Web Manager. Click [ SYSTEM ] and switch to “SYSTEM” page.

  • Page 59: Change Web Administrator's Password

    5-2-3 Change Web Administrator’s Password To change administrator’s password of SMP, check the box and enter the password. You can change to a suitable port number to f it your network environment. The default port number of Web Manager is 80. We suggest that you use the port number larger than 1024, so that the new port number will not be in conflict with other services.

  • Page 60: Set System Reboot

    5-2-5 Set System Reboot You can assign up to three particular time within a day to reset SMP player automatically. Enable “Set system reboot at” function, and choose a specific time. Then, click [ SAVE ] and [ APPLY ]. 5-2-6 Firmware Update To update the firmware version of the SMP, please go to “System”...

  • Page 61: Display Settings

    3. Please refer to the following table and select a suitable setting for you. After completing settings, click [ SAVE ] and [ APPLY ] so that those settings will come into effect. SMP-PRO2 Screen Resoluton Include 640×480, 800×600, 104×768, 180×104, 180×768 and 856×480 screen resolutons...

  • Page 62: Turn On / Off Display

    SMP-PRO3/SMP-PRO3N Screen Resoluton 640x480, 800x600, 104x768, 115x864, 180x104, 180x70(70p), 180x768, 1600x900, 160x768, 166x768 Dsplay output to VGA D-SUB or Composte/S-Vdeo Refresh Rate Composte and S-Vdeo only support NTSC/PAL n 800x600 screen resoluton. (NTSC/PALmust be confgured through the jumper) 5-3-2 Turn On / Off Display You can also use "Display Command"...
  • Page 63 1. Login SMP Web Manager If you choose the display 2. Click [ SYSTEM ] and switch to “DISPLAY” page. output f rom Composite/ 3. Please refer to the following table for more functions. S - V i d e o o n S M P - P R O 3 / P R O 3 N , y o u w i l l n o t b e a b l e t o t u r n o n / o f f t h e Dsplay comand...

  • Page 64: Video Input Settings (Smp-Pro3 Only)

    5-4 Video Input Settings (SMP- PRO3 only) 1. Login SMP Web Manager 2. Click [ SYSTEM ] and switch to “VIDEO INPUT” page. 3. Please refer to the following table for all functions. TV Standard Set vdeo nput type. The nput type can be NTSC, PAL and SECAM.

  • Page 65: Network Settings

    Network Settings 6-1 Ethernet ..................60 6-2 Wireless Network ...............61...

  • Page 66: Ethernet

    In this section, you can assign a group name and hostname for the SMP and define the network connection mode. SMP players with the same Group name will be managed altogether for content update and Check network by pinging central scheduling. gateway: This function helps users 6-1 Ethernet...

  • Page 67: Wireless Network

    6-2 Wireless Network If you use WEP, the key If you attached a compatible USB Wi-Fi adaptor to a SMP player, will be 5 or 13 characters, you will see the page “Wireless Settings” and can configure all 1 0 o r 2 6 h e x d e c i m a l . I f wireless network settings here.
  • Page 68 3. Please specify the DHCP or static IP address for the wireless connection of the SMP player. Please contact Cayin to purchase compatible USB Wi-Fi adaptors.

  • Page 69: Log Management

    Log Management 7-1 Enable Syslog ................64 7-2 View Logs ..................65 7-3 Export Log File ................66...

  • Page 70: Enable Syslog

    We suggest you purchase 1. Login SMP Web Manager, and go to the [LOG] page. Cayin’s log management tool, Super Reporter, to 2. Click “Enable Syslog” and enter the IP address of your designated collect and management server.

  • Page 71: View Logs

    7-2 View Logs You can check the log records in the SMP player. 1. Login SMP Web Manager, and go to the [ LOG ] page. 2. Click [ View Logs ]; then the log dialog-box will pop up. You can check all log files in your selected categories.

  • Page 72: Export Log File

    7-3 Export Log File You can export the log records; then, edit or analyze with your favorite text editor software, such as Notepad, Excel, etc. T h e e x p o r t p r o c e d u r e s 1.

  • Page 73: Smp Console

    SMP Console...

  • Page 74: Viewing System Information

    By pressing CTRL-ALT-Backspace, you can exit GUI mode into text console to make some low-level management. After you configure here, those changes take effect after the system restarts. Viewing System Information View firmware, CPU, memory, and disk information. Network Management Configure Ethernet network.

  • Page 75: System Recovery

    System Recovery...
  • Page 76 If you encounter any unrecoverable problem (e.g. unable to boot up) while using SMP client, you can choose this function, System Y o u c a n t r y t o r e c o v e r Recovery, to restore your system firmware to factory default. Follow t h e s y s t e m f i r m w a r e the steps below to recover the system: first, and type “N”...

  • Page 77: Appendix: Use "Log_Rcv" To Collect Syslog From Clients

    Appendix: U s e “ l o g _ r c v ” t o c o l l e c t syslog from clients D o n ’ t r u n t h e p r o g r a m “log_rcv.exe”...
  • Page 78 4. After log records are collected, Log_rcv.exe will generate 3 folders automatically, which are “log”, “billing”, and “content_update”. Each day, all collected log files from every client in that day will be saved in a subfolder which is named for the date. All the log records are stored n daly bass and each host has its own files.

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