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  • Page 1 MultiQ Digital Signage DSMS 3 User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents Introduction ......................................4 Preparations ......................................5 Set up your first physical media monitor or media player .................. 7 Setting up a media monitor ................................ 8 Unpacking ................................................ 8 Mounting ................................................8 Connections ..............................................8 Hardware Installation ..........................................9 Control panel buttons and LEDs ....................................9 Buttons ................................................
  • Page 3 To play playlists in sequence ......................................46 Scheduling ..............................................47 Adding more playlists .......................................... 52 Adding a playlist with a movie file ..................................... 52 Using a web link (URL) as a media spot in playlists ..........................55 Add a playlist with an SWF Flash file ..................................58 A live stream treated as a media spot ..................................

  • Page 4: Introduction

    3, Media player 2 and Media player 1. I.e. that previous Media player 1, 2 and 3 features may be administrated by DSMS 3 as well. To be able to use the web- and Open API features, Media player 3 or Media players 4, 5 or Media monitors 4, 5, 6 and 7 need to be used.

  • Page 5: Preparations

    • As an option the MultiQ POS (Point of Sale) Pole with rotatable attachment for the monitor can be used. This makes it easy to rotate the monitor between landscape and portrait orientation (pivot).
  • Page 6 Figure 1. MultiQ Media player and Media monitor product range. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 7: Set Up Your First Physical Media Monitor Or Media Player

    USB interface that is to be connected to one of the USB ports of the media player. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 8: Setting Up A Media Monitor

    Mounting and attachment hardware is not included. The monitor has a VESA 75 x 75 mm interface. Please contact your MultiQ reseller if you wish to mount your media monitor on the wall or on other kinds of stands. Mounting instructions are provided with each separate mount.

  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    Flashing in green: Network activity at 100 Mb/s or 1000 Mb/s • Constantly lit in red: Link up at 10 Mb/s • Flashing in red: Network activity at 10 Mb/s MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 10: Media Players 4 And 5

    Front panel LEDs On the front of the media player there are 4 LEDs. Figure 5. Front panel with indication LEDs. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 11 Flashing in green: Network activity at 100 Mb/s or 1000 Mb/s • Constantly lit in red: Link up at 10 Mb/s • Flashing in red: Network activity at 10 Mb/s MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 12: Configuration

    To “Auto adjust” the image location on the monitor Reboot the media player once more. After the media player has booted a white sign with two MultiQ logos is shown on the screen. If the image is not correctly centered on the screen this may be corrected by simultaneously pressing the “+”...
  • Page 13 If the monitor or the media player is replaced the calibration procedure has to be done once more. Figure 7. Follow the instructions at the center of the screen to calibrate the touch panel. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 14: Configuration And Connection Check

    Next is the setup menu login page. You will find see the virtual keyboard at the bottom of the page. By default the username is “admin” and the password is “admin”. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 15: Stand Alone Setup

    In most cases media players are connected to a local network that provides an IP address automatically. If so, press “DHCP”. Then press “Test connection”. Figure 11. Standalone setup with DHCP selected. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 16 As an alternative to acquiring an IP address automatically, the IP address can be set manually. In such case you must obtain IP addressing parameters from your network administrator. Figure 13. As an alternative the IP address of the media monitor can be set as static. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 17 “Security” menu (Figure 9) tick the “Admin” checkbox and then click the “Modify” button to change the administrator password. After entering the new password, press “Save”. Finally press “Done” to leave the onscreen menu system. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 18: Centrally Managed Network Setup

    In order to get a successful connection test the media player or media monitor needs to be defined in the central management system. How this is done is described in the “Testing the web client and defining your first media player” section. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 19: Downloading Content

    While downloading files the “Status” LED will flash between red and green. If a touch panel (Media monitor 5 and 7) or separate monitor with touch panel, the touch panel must be calibrated according to before use. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 20: Flash Installation

    • Check the settings in the configuration menu and make a connection test. • Check the Ethernet connection. Make sure that the outbound ports 21, 80 and NTP 123 are left open in the firewall. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 21 MultiQ website. We have now installed our first media monitor or media player and in the next section we will start to learn how to put content on the screen. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 22: Testing The Web Client And Defining Your First Media Player

    “Group Playlists” contain a summary of what content is used in the system. The first time you log into the DSMS you will also find that there are no media players (units) defined in the “Units” section of the menu. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 23 (Figure 19) . You will now get into the “Add unit” menu shown in figure 20. Figure 20. How to define your first media player in the “Add unit” menu. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 24 Select “SXGA- Full Screen without ticker- landscape(0)”. Finally click the “Add button” at the lower right of the menu. Your first media player is now defined in the system. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 25: To Find Confirmation That The Media Player Is Connected To The Dsms

    16:9. In this example we assume a 5:4 aspect ratio monitor. Then press the “Save” button at the bottom of the page. Making changes in the “Setting” tab will cause the media player to reboot. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 26 Figure 22. Decreasing the report interval for the media player. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 27: Content Management Basics

    Figure 23. The basic flow of content in a digital signage system. To use the files in our media players we need to organize them and to decide how they are going to be presented. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 28: Organizing Playlists Into Channels

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  • Page 29: Image Retention

    After having completed the exercises you will be able to design your own applications. Therefore you are recommended to make the exercises before starting on your own projects. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 30: Exercise 1 - Create A Simple Full Screen Digital Poster Or An In-Store Tv Channel

    Download the files and place them in a (Content and tools) folder on your PC. Figure 27. The training content can be downloaded from the MultiQ website and contains the files and tools needed for the exercises.

  • Page 31: To Upload Content To The Dsms (Digital Signage Management Server)

    If single files are to be uploaded to the DSMS then just press the “Browse” button and browse for the file to be uploaded from the content folder on your PC. After selecting the “Bank1_16_9.jpg” file, in the content folder, click the “Upload” button. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 32 Figure 31. The effect of choosing “Keep Aspect Ratio” A thumbnail of the uploaded image is now shown in the Media Bank. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 33: Multiple File Upload

    So tick the “Keep Aspect Ratio” boxes for each of the files. Figure 32. Select, attach and upload a set of files using the Multiple File upload tool. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 34: Creating Playlists

    Enter a playlist name, in this case “Playlist 101 Banking” into the Description box. Since we might want to add video clips at a later stage we need to click the “Movies and Images” box*. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 35 This means that there is a need to keep track of which playlists are used for the different regions. That’s why we define separate playlists as they are created. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 36 Figure 34. How to create a new playlist. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 37: Adding Media Files To The Playlist

    By licking the arrows to the left of the spots you may move them to any location in the playlist. You may also decide the duration for spot (the duration of a video clip is decided by its length). MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 38: To Create A Channel (Group Playlist)

    In the “Add Group Playlist” menu (Figure 37), name the channel by filling out the “Descriptions” box with “Channel 1”. In principle you are free to choose any name you like. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 39 Press the “Add” button to have the channel (Group Playlist) created. An empty channel will appear in the Group Playlists menu. Figure 38. To add a new channel to the Group Playlists menu. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 40: To Add Playlists To Your Channel

    1 editing menu. Click “Add” and scroll to the bottom of the Media Bank content (SubPlaylist Video + Image) and tick “Banking”. Then click “Save”. Now Channel 1 has got its first playlist. Figure 39. Add the previously made playlist to your channel. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 41: To Associate The Channel With The Media Player

    Further content updates can be done by just editing the channel. And we may have the channel added to any number of media players. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 42: To Add More Playlists And Content To The Channel

    Now we have one playlist playing in our channel. But we would like to have more playlists added. Therefore we will proceed by uploading more content to the Media Bank. Figure 42. Currently there is only one playlist “Banking” in the Playlist Bank. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 43: To Create A Second Playlist

    In figure 43 a second playlist “Gaming” is added. Then there are three images added to the playlist. In figure 44 the playlist is edited. Figure 43. A second playlist is added to the Playlist Bank. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 44 The next step is to add “Gaming” to Channel 1. In the “Units and Group” playlists menu click on Channel 1 to get into its editing menu. Figure 45. Click Channel 1 to get into the Channel 1 group playlist editing menu. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 45 Now, Channel 1 has two playlists, “Banking” and “Gaming”. If no scheduling is done it is always the playlist on top that will be played. Try to move the “Gaming” playlist to the top position. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 46: To Play Playlists In Sequence

    Sometimes it is desirable to play several playlists in sequence. This way it becomes possible to mix global playlists with local content and I also facilitate reuse of existing playlists. Figure 49. It is possible to play playlists in sequence by disabling playlist looping. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 47: Scheduling

    By using scheduling it is possible to use different playlists at different times. To enter the scheduling menu, click at “Playing (Change)” for the playlist in the Channel 1 editing menu. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 48 If the playlist on top is not active the player will check for active hours in the playlists below. Figure 52. In the scheduling menu you can set start and stop of campaigns and select weekly or daily schedules. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 49 Figure 53. Enter active hours (0900-1200) for “Banking” playlist and press “Update Display”, then select “Save”. Figure 54. Select active hours (1200-2100) for playlist 101 Banking. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 50 A second active interval for the “Gaming” playlist can be inserted as is shown in figure 56. Figure 56. More conditions can be added to get more display intervals during the same day. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 51 Figure 58. By pressing the “Group Schedule” button in the Group Playlist menu it is possible to get an overview of the scheduled playlists. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 52: Adding More Playlists

    Figure 59. Go to the Playlist Bank and click the “Add Playlist” button to add another playlist. Just as for the other two playlists, the Movie playlist should be a “Movies and Images” playlist to fit into Channel 1. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 53 Figure 61. There are now three playlists in the Playlist Bank. Now click the “Movie” playlist to get into the “Movie” playlist menu. Press “Add” to get into the selection part of the Media Bank. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 54 The “Volume” setting is intended to compensate for variations between different video clips. In most cases it may be suitable to start off with 100%. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 55: Using A Web Link (Url) As A Media Spot In Playlists

    “Add Playlist” and name the new playlist “Web”. As before, it should be a “Movie and Images” kind of playlist. Figure 65. Add one more playlist named “Web” (“Movies and Images” type) MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 56 Internet or stored inside the media players. Insert a name of the link and fill out the address line in the box below. Remember that the entire link (including http://) is needed. Insert “http://google.com”. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 57 The web spot is now visible in the “Html section” of the Media Bank. Figure 69. The “Google” link is now visible as a web spot in the “Html” section” of the Media Bank. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 58: Add A Playlist With An Swf Flash File

    Add a playlist with an SWF Flash file The MultiQ media players can treat Flash animation files just as any other file format. This means that the files can be put right into a playlist (without being a part of a web page). This means that there is full support for “untagged”...
  • Page 59 Figure 72 In the Playlist Bank, click “Add Playlist” to add another playlist named “Logo”. Figure 73. Click on “Logo” to get into the “Logo” playlist menu. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 60 Figure 74. Click on “Add” to get into the selection menu. Figure 75. Select the Logo.swf file and click “Save” to have it added to the “logo” playlist. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 61: A Live Stream Treated As A Media Spot

    Just as a web link can be used as a conventional media spot, also a stream can be treated the same way. Figure 77. Add a playlist named “Livet TV” that can be used to house a live broadcast stream or a live feed from a surveillance camera. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 62 IP stream. The syntax of the stream varies depending on what device is used and what signal is wanted from the device. In this example the address: rtsp://192.168.118.108:554/axis-media/media.amp?videocodec=h264&streamprofile=high is used. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 63 Finally add the streaming spot to the “Live TV” playlist by clicking “Add” in the “Live TV” playlist menu. Figure 81. Click “Add” in the “Live TV” playlist menu to add the new media spot to the list. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 64 Finally we have six playlists that contain various kinds of media files or media links. However it is also possible to combine different kinds of spots in the same playlist. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 65 Figure 84. Click on “Channel 1” in the “Group Playlists” section of the menu to get into the “Channel 1“ menu. Figure 85. Click “Add” to get into the media selection menu. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 66 Figure 86. Now, tick the remaining 4 playlists and click “Save” Figure 87. Channel 1 now contains the 6 playlists. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 67: Exercise 2 - To Build A Web Kiosk

    Figure 88. A web kiosk fetch information from websites that are available on the Internet Figure 89. Move the “Web” playlist to the top position using the tiny arrows to the left. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 68 “zoom” feature. In the Media Bank click the “Google” web spot to get into the “Google” spot menu. Figure 91. Click the “Google” web link to get into its menu. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 69: Adding A Virtual Keyboard

    The next thing needed is to add a virtual keyboard that allows for transactions to be carried out by the user. In the “Browser Library (Extensions)” there are two virtual keyboards available, the StdGrey and the StdBlack keyboards as is shown in MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 70 To assign the keyboard to the player you need to go to the “Settings” menu of the media player. This is done by first going to the “Units and Group Playlist” menu and then selecting the media player by clicking on its name. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 71 “Language” setting will decide what language keyboard to be used Figure 96. Select the “Settings” tab in the Media Player menu and scroll to “Browser Settings” and click “Add”. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 72 Figure 97. Select the StdGrey.xpi file and click “Save” Figure 98. After a restart the keyboard will appear on the screen. Figure 99. You can also try to select the black keyboard. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 73 Figure 101. The system comes with keyboards in UK English, French, German, and the Scandinavian languages. Additional languages and colour schemes adapted to branding can be made by developers, please download further information and tools from www.multiq.com. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 74: Exercise 3 - Local Interactivity

    The only difference between conventional signage that is scheduled is that rather than being controlled by the clock, what playlist to be played is controlled by someone touching a touch panel monitor (Figure 102). MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 75 (Figure 104). In the video mode editor, start by selecting orientation (landscape) and resolution (SXGA 1280 x 1024 pixels). MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 76: Build A Multi Region Application

    “Settings” icon at the bottom left. In the “Settings” menu click “Open Mode Editor”. Figure 104. Click the “Settings” icon at the bottom left. Figure 105. Click the “Open Mode Editor” button to start the Mode Editor. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 77 1280 x 208 pixels in this exercise (Figure 109). Finally change the name from “New mode” to “Ticker” and press “Enter” before you click the “Save” button on top (Figure 110). MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 78 Figure 107. Add the “Primary region” by clicking the “primary” button and dragging the lower left corner of the region. Figure 108. Add a “Ticker” region by clicking the “Ticker” button and then dragging it to the desired position. Select the maximum height (96 pixels). MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 79 Figure 109. Add an “Image” region at the bottom of the screen by dragging it across to the desired size and location. Figure 110. The final design of the video mode. Before saving, change the name to “Ticker” press “Enter” and then press the “Save” icon on top. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 80 Next choose the “Settings” tab of the playlist menu and choose the new video mode “Ticker” from the video mode pull-down menu. Do not forget to click the “Save” button at the further down the media player “Settings” menu. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 81 Figure 113. Choose the “Settings” tab and then choose the new custom video mode “Ticker” from the pull down menu then click “Save” at the bottom of the “Settings” menu. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 82 Figure 115. The final video mode as it appears on the monitor screen. The Two idle areas are there because we have not yet assigned any content to the ticker nor the image area. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 83: To Build The Dashboard

    The next step is to build the interactive dashboard that is to be placed at the bottom of the screen. But in order to do this we must learn how to use the MultiQ open API. This is however not as complicated as it sounds.
  • Page 84 “Disable remote access to web server” box. Don’t forget to click the “Save” button further down the page before proceeding. The unit will restart automatically after this change has been done. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 85 After the media player has restarted we are ready to go. In the address field of Mozilla Firefox (recommended), enter the IP address of your media player followed by “/multiq/”. You will now get to the index page of the “multiq” folder of the web server.
  • Page 86 (internal interactivity). Figure 120. The “example” tool is used to generate and test the API commands that are used in the applications. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 87 I.e. that the API commands are common web URL’s. So, we use the same kind of addressing techniques when we address the media player internally as other media players in the same network or even address other servers on the Internet. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 88 In the following pages we will produce an html dashboard using the API commands that we can produce with the tool just described. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 89: Making The Html Dashboard

    Internet and that is well suited for demonstrating digital signage- and web kiosk applications. The Serif Web Plus SE application can be downloaded from: http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/commence- download.asp?CommenceDownload=webplus&navproduct=webplus&Check=True MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 90 The result is the strange looking web page in figure 126. However it is well suited for its cause. Building applications like this is very much about using conventional web technology but for new purposes. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 91 Figure 124. Select “Edit” => “Page Properties” to get to the “Properties” menu. Figure 125. Deselect “Master” and select (none) to be able to freely select the page dimensions MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 92 Figure 126. In the “Properties” menu select “Width”=1280 pixels and “Height”=208 pixels. Figure 127. The result is a quite strange looking web page. But it is well suited for its cause. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 93 Import the Dashboard.png file using the “Import Picture” tool and drag the image to fill the web page (Figure 128). As you can see the document frame is now hidden behind the dashboard image (Figure 129). MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 94 Figure 129. Import the Dashboard.png file using the “Import Picture” tool. Figure 130. Drag the “Dashboard.png” image to get it to cover the entire web page. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 95 However to get it working we need to add some “Hot spots” to the image to house our hyperlinks. First copy a hyperlink from the “example” tool. Figure 131 shows how to copy the URL command that addresses the “Banking” playlist. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 96 If you fail this step you will get the dashboard replaced by a white web page and the application will get stuck (Figure 133). MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 97 Now we need to add hotspots to the other buttons as well. A simple way of doing this is to copy the first hootspot “Banking” and then just adapt the hyperlink to each button accordingly. Figure 134. Copy the hotspot of the “Banking” button. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 98 Figure 135. Paste the copied hotspot and place it on top of the “Gaming” button. Figure 136. Edit the hyperlink URL address by replacing “Banking” with “Gaming”. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 99 The thing is that we have a space in the “Live TV” playlist name. In the tool you can see that the syntax for the “Live TV” playlist name becomes “”Live%20TV” which we need to take into account when modifying the hyperlink name for the “Live TV” button. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 100 Previous” (see Figure 120) and “Goto Next” commands from the “example” tool to the. Figure 139 summarizes the API hyperlinks that are required to complete the dashboard web page. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 101: Preview The Dashboard Web Page In Window

    As you press the buttons you will be able to change between the playlist and to move around within each playlist using the “<” and “>” buttons. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 102 Figure 140. Test the dashboard web page by previewing the page in a window inside the Serif Web Plus SE application. Figure 141. In the preview the buttons can be directly tested with the media player. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 103: To Publish The Dashboard Website To A Folder On Your Hard Drive

    In the previously created “Dashboard_ext” folder (see Figure 121) create a new subfolder having the same name “Dashboard_ext”. Use this folder as the target folder where you publish your site. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 104 Figure 143. Create a new folder to which you publish your “Dashboard_ext” website. Figure 144. Name the folder “Dashboard_ext”. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 105 Figure 146. Click the “index.html” file to go to the “Dashboard_ext” site. Figure 147. When running the Dashboard_ext website you have an external dashboard giving you full control of all content available in the media monitor/player. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 106: To Put The Dashboard Inside The Media Monitor

    When done, save the project and select “Publish site”=>”Publish to disk folder”. Inside the “Dashboard” folder, create a subfolder also called “Dashboard” to where you publish the site with the local host addressing. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 107 Figure 149. Publish the “Dashboard” site to a subfolder inside this folder also named “Dashboard”. To be able to upload the “Dashboard” folder to the system we need to add the “Dashboard” folder to a zip folder. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 108 Figure 150. In the “Dashboard” content folder (see above), right click and select “New”=>”Compressed (zipped) Folder”. Figure 151. Drag the “Dashboard” folder into the “Dashboard.zip” folder to have it compressed. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 109: To Upload The Dashboard To The Media Player

    The first step is to upload the zipped website to the management server. To do this first click the “Browser Library” icon. Figure 152. Select “add” in the “Local Storage Files” section of the Browser Library. Figure 153. Now browse to the zipped file on your PC. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 110 When the file has been uploaded to the server you can see that it is listed in the list of local storage files that are available in the management server. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 111 It will then be extracted so that we get an exact copy of the “Dashboard-“ folder that is locally stored in the media player or the media player. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 112 Figure 157. In the “Units and Group Playlists” menu click the media player to get into its menu. Figure 158. Click the “Settings menu of the media player. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 113 Now that the “Dashboard” folder is in store in the media player we need to fix a local link to where it is stored before we can use it. Figure 161. Click “Add External” in the Media Bank to add the local link. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 114 Image region. Therefore click the “Units and Group Playlists” icon and then click “Add” in the “Group Playlists” section. Figure 163. Click “add” in the “Group Playlists” section of the “Units and Group Playlists” menu. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 115 “Image 1” region of the media player. Figure 165. Click “Channel 2” in the “Group Playlists” section of the “Units and Group Playlists” menu to get into its menu. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 116 Figure 167. Select the “Dashboard” link from the Media Bank. The dashboard is now a part of the “Channel 2” group playlist. By default the reload interval is set to 15 seconds but it can easily be increased. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 117 Figure 169. Click “Add” in the “Media from Groups” section of the “Media player 1” menu. Figure 170. Now tick the “Channel 2” box and click “Add group” to get the group playlist associated with the region on the media player. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 118 Figure 171. The dashboard in operation inside the media monitor. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 119: Exercise 4 - Adding A Ticker

    RSS feeds. Figure 173. Print “RSS” plus some associated broadcaster or area of interest into Google and make a search. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 120 The next few pages show how to use an RSS feed as a source of information for a ticker. Figure 175. The link to the RSS feed can be used as an external link for ticker in the digital signage system. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 121 Figure 176. In the Ticker Bank you can store a number of links to RSS feeds. Click “Add” to store more feeds. Figure 177. In the Ticker Bank “Add ticker to ticker bank” menu you add a description along with the link that you copied from your web browser. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 122 Figure 178. Tick “Ticker from source” and select the ticker source you like. Figure 179. After a while (can take up to 10-15 minutes) the text will be available in the Ticker Bank, and on the screen. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 123 Figure 180. Tickers can be combined with any kind of media. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 124: Exercise 5 - The "Stores" Feature -Scalability

    The two media players in figure 180 are considered to be located in the same store. So it may be possible to organize the media players into stores. To do this, click the “Stores” menu. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 125 Once in the “Stores” menu, set the first store_id as “0”. However any kind of number can be used here. Figure 183. In the ”Stores” menu various details about each location can be stored. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 126 The nice thing about the “Stores” feature is that it is possible to make a template based on the store. This template can be used to create copies of the first store including all settings and references to content used. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 127 Figure 187. At the bottom of the “Stores” menu there is a “Store templates” section. Click “Add” to add a template. Figure 188. In the drop down menu, choose “Store Model” as name and “HQ Store” as origin for the template. Then click “Add”. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 128 Figure 190. In the “Add Store” menu, name the store “London Store 1” and let the store id be “1”. Choose the “Store Model” as template. Then click “Add”. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 129 Figure 191. In the copy made from the store model there has been an increment of 100, so the unit id’s in this store are now 101 and 102 respectively. Figure 192. Click “Add” once more to create a third store. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 130: Scalability And How To Handle Multiple Stores

    1, 2 , 3, 4 etc, then the first copy will get Unit_Id’s 101, 102, 103, 104 and so on. For the second copy of the store model the Unit_Id’s will become 201, 202, 203, 204 etc. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 131: To Control The Display Hours In The Stores

    Yet another interesting feature is the “Display Interval” setting that can be made for each store separately. This makes the monitors to go to “Stand by” position outside display time intervals. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 132 Figure 196. In the “Settings” tab of a store you can set the display hours for the monitors. The exercises in this user’s manual cover most features and possibilities offered by the system. In the following appendices some additional areas of interest are covered. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 133: Appendix 1 - Monitoring And Logging The Units

    Files” box in the “Settings” tab for the unit. Then the logs can be found in the “Status” tab. The text information can be retrieved by copy and paste the information from log sections of the “Status” tab. Figure A1-2 How to activate the “Log Media Files”. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 134: Appendix 2 - Controlling The Default Playlists

    (2) and then select the day of the week for the playlist to be used as default (3). By pressing the “Insert” button an unlimited number of time periods when various playlists are to be used. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 135: Setting The Time To Revert To The Default Playlists

    To set the time to revert to default playlist, select the “Settings” menu and set the number of seconds after which the application is to return to the scheduled default playlist after the most recent touch was initiated. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 136 Figure A2-3. In the “Settings” menu the time to revert to the default playlist can be set. This time setting is common for all channels and units in the account. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 137: Appendix 3 - Mixing Local Play With Web Elements In In-Store Tv Channels

    (which is an external website feature) and finally a locally inserted region containing local information from a local web server and a clock picked up from an external website. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 138: Building The Video Mode To Fit Widescreen Monitors

    It is not recommended to use resolutions above 720 x 576 pixels with media player 3. Figure A3-3. The media player has four regions custom video mode used for the bank application. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 139: Appendix 4 - Local Insertion

    Figure A4-1. A region on the screen is dedicated to locally controlled content. Figure A4-2. Simple web tools like Web Plus SE, makes it possible for anyone to learn how to update a web region in minutes. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 140: Appendix 5 - Interconnected Media Players

    Media players inside the local area network can address each other but can’t be addressed from outside. From a security perspective this is very important. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 141 Figure A5-2. Using a gateway router including a NAT (Network Address Translation) table makes it easy to have standardized IP addresses at all locations. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 142: Appendix 6 - Synchronizing Media Players

    By sending synchronized commands to the media player it is possible to make them show the same thing in a synchronized manner or to have them to present synchronized video clips. This makes a great impression. Figure A6-1. Synchronized media player makes a great impression. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 143: Appendix 7 - Rights Management

    In the “Add user” menu the individual rights for each user may be selected. By choosing “Administrator” the user will have full rights to handle the system. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 144 Figure A7-2. Adding users with individual rights. Figure A7-3. Setting specific rights for each user. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 145: Appendix 8 - How To Secure Your Media Player

    (local host) for local interactivity using the 127.0.0.1 address. To prevent user of your media monitors to reach unwanted websites you can use the “Whitelist” feature to specify what web addresses are allowed. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...

  • Page 146: Appendix 9 - Converting Ppt To Video Clips

    Today there are a multitude of video and image editing programs that can export video clips that can be directly uploaded to the MultiQ digital signage system. It is advisable to use MPEG-2 files in standard resolution format. MPEG-4 can be used but has some restrictions on what container formats used.
  • Page 147 Figure A9-1. Recommended settings when using the Moyea PPT to video converter. MultiQ Digital Signage – DSMS 3 User’s Manual Ver. 2, 2010-06-08...
  • Page 148 Founded in 1988 in Malmö Sweden, MultiQ designs and produces high quality flat display screens for public environments. In recent years MultiQ has also become a dynamic force in the growing European market for digital signage where it offers hardware, software and peripherals as well as screen technology.

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