8.1- Screens

Add a screen

• Open the management console, and navigate to screens page
• Install the player app on your device
• If you have Google play store available in your device, click on Install from Google Play to install the player app
• Otherwise, download and install the player app manually. For more information about installing the player app on your device, check Installation
• After installation, a Hash ID should be shown on your display, this ID will be used to add your screen to your management console

• Click on Add Screen
• Enter the ID from your display. This Hash ID is case sensitive
• Enter name and location of your screen.
• Entering screen’s address will integrate with google maps screens map that is available in your dashboard
• Click on Add Screen
• Your screen will be added the list

• To change a screen’s name, Click on the name and type in the new name
• To change the screen’s location, click on the location and change it

Media Source

• To add content to your screen, click on Set Media Source

• If you already created playlists, click on the playlist your want to assign to your screen
• or click on Set to new Playlist to create a new playlist and assign it to your screen
• Type in a playlist name to filter the playlists

Note: If the screen is horizontal, only horizontal playlists will show, and if it’s vertical only vertical playlists will show.

• In addition to playlists, screens can be assigned to groups or schedules
• To assign to a group, click on Groups, then on the group name
• To assign to a schedule, click on Schedules then on the schedule name

Screen Settings

• Click on the Settings button of your screen

Power Management

Check Power Management

Screenshot

• Click on Screenshot from the settings drop down
• Click on Take a new screenshot
• Wait for the screenshot to load, it might take a few seconds
• You can check the timestamp of the last screenshot taken

Rotate Screen

• Click on Rotate Screen from the settings drop down

• The screen can have one of the 4 orientations:

  • horizontal: the screen is at 0 degrees
  • vertical: rotate the screen 90 degrees
  • horizontal flipped: rotate the screen 180 degrees
  • vertical flipped: rotate the screen 270 degrees

• Choose one and click Save

• Your screen will rotate to the chosen orientation

• If you choose vertical, you can see that the Type has changed to vertical
• The media source is cleared, since the vertical playlists are different from the horizontal ones, choose a new one by clicking on Set Media Source

Tags

• Click on Tags
• Choose Tags for the screen
• Click Save

Screen Details

• Click on Screen’s Details
• View the hardware and software details

Restart

Requires a Rooted screen

• Click on Restart to make your screen reboot

Delete

• Click on Delete to remove your screen from the management console
• The screen should show the Hash ID and can be added to other accounts
• All the data and media files will be removed from the screen

Filter and Search Screens

• Type in a screen name to search for it in the list
• Click on Filter Screens to filter by:
  • Status: All, Online, Offline
  • Type: Vertical, Horizontal