External Web - Black Box iCOMPEL 2U Series User Manual

iCOMPEL Digital Signage User Guide (V9.2.3)
Supported Format Notes
Before you can add live video in to a playlist, you need to configure your TV tuner to recognize the video source as a TV
input. See TV & Radio
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3.3.5 External Web Pages
You can display whole or parts of pages from an external web site with the iCOMPEL. See
Web Page for details of how to display only a part of a web page. See
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files held locally on the iCOMPEL.
Zone player type to enable: HTML.
Playlist tab containing the item: Specials.
Additional notes:
Supported Format Notes
HTML The iCOMPEL displays HTML using the WebKit browser engine for Linux.
(The Apple Safari and Google Chrome browsers also use the WebKit
engine.) WebKit supports web pages including JavaScript and Adobe Flash
but not ActiveX.
To display a web page, your iCOMPEL must have live access to it at the time.
If the web page requires a username and password to log in, include
those in the URL in the format: protocol://username:password@site.
Adding External Web Pages to a Playlist:
To add an external web page to a playlist, follow these steps:
1. Open the web page you want to link to and copy its whole URL address. (You can also sometimes use the URL to link
to a specific frame or image to display.)
2. On the iCOMPEL menu bar, click Playlists and select the zone in the layout you want to add the page to.
3. Select the Specials tab.
4. Paste the web site URL into the External Web Page field.
5. Click the button.
6. In the playlist, you can drag the
Notes:
HTML pages always have a white, non-transparent background.
Auto-refresh web pages direct the iCOMPEL browser to reload the page at regular intervals. Add auto-refresh pages
to a playlist with an indefinite duration to be sure that they always show the latest information. Determine whether a
page auto-refreshes by searching for the
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A device to stream video onto the network.
for more details.
icon to adjust the item's position or click its
<meta http-equiv=refresh>
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Displaying Part of a Movie or
HTML Web Pages for how to display HTML
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button to modify its properties.
tag in its HTML code: