User Manual for iDS6 Running on Hardware Terminals

 

 

 

 

 

 

Version5.5

Date Updated2015.4.17

AuthorSeven

 

 

Betvis International Co., Limited.

 
 

 



Contents

1        Introduction. 1

2        Functionalities Introduction. 2

2.1               Network Setting. 2

2.2               Player Setting. 6

2.3               Advanced Settings. 17

2.4               Network & Standalone Mode. 18

2.5               Reboot 19

2.6               Start Player 19

3        ANNEX. 20

3.1               Resolution for each size of the panel 20

3.2               Media Support 20

3.3               Player Start 21

 


1      Introduction

Hardware Terminal iDS6 Software is embedded on the Android board of the media player or all in one screen, which will automatically run the terminal program to access into the playing status after the mainboard turned on,

Press “Info” button on remote control (for non-touch screen) or quickly click any corner 4 times on screen (only for touch screen) can allow users to view the hardware terminals running status information including Player ID, Resolution, Play Path, APP Version, Kernel Version, Player time, Network Parameters, Server Parameters, Connection Status of Player to Server and Multiplayers sync function status.

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Press any color button (red, green, yellow and blue) on remote control (for non-touch screen) or quickly click any corner 8 times on screen (only for touch screen) can allow users to access the Android setting interface, which will automatically return to the iDS6 contents playing interface without any operation on the Android setting interface within 1 minute.

2      Functionalities Introduction

Hardware Terminal Setting Interface includes 7 functionality buttons: Network, Player, Advanced, Online/Offline, Guide, Reboot and Start Player.

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2.1      Network Setting

Access into “Network” and “Server” interface, and you will see interface as below:

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In Hardware terminal “Sever setting”, “Server IP” should be the IP address or domain name of the information publication server (computer with iDS6 software installation). Please kindly note that if for domain name inputting, do not add “http://”;

Control port” is your information publication server control port, for example: 9090;

Download port” is your information publication server website port, for example: 8080;

Control port and download port are the server configuration parameters, only those two ports of the hardware terminal are same as the server control port and website port; the player can connect to the server.

Note: When users need to input the numbers or letters in the configuration, “OK” button on remote control or click the input field/box can allow users to use the virtual keyboard. Users can input any number and letters via the Up, Down, Right and Left directions on the remote control. “OK” button on remote control is used to select the numbers and letters, and “Exit” button on remote control or on virtual keyboard is used to exit after inputting finished.

 

In Hardware Terminal Network Configuration, Users can select Ethernet, WiFi or Mobile network according to actual conditions and to make configuration.

Ethernet setting is as follows:

Users can select “Obtain IP from a DHCP Server”(it is recommended to use if the local network area has DHCP server) or use the static settings below (It is recommended to use if local network area has no DHCP server or DHCP IP address is not allowed to use)

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WiFi Network Setting is as follows:

Users can use the “search” button to search WiFi by refresh or update the wireless AP list and select the suitable AP (users also can input the AP by hands with the help of remote control), and then input the password of the WiFi and click “OK” to finish the WiFi setting. If some AP does not support DHCP IP address or his network environment does not allow using the DHCP IP address, users can go to the “Advanced” to manually set the IP address interface (similar setting as tat for Ethernet).

 

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Mobile Network Setting only needs to select related mobile network SIM Card type, including WCDMA and EVDO types.

 

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2.2      Player Setting

Player setting interface is shown in the following picture, including player information displaying (Available space, APP version, System Version, Campaign and Player ID), player information editing and settings for parameters of all personalities of the hardware terminals.

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 “Setup” button interface on the information of the player is shown in the following picture, which allows users to edit the player ID, Corp ID and Player Name. Player Corp ID defines player can be shown on the domain (Corp ID) of the server, if it is blank, blank means “demo”. Please kindly note that once server listed the player in one domain (Corp ID), the player will be transferred into that domain automatically once the player is connected to network.

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Player system configuration functions include volume setting, brightness setting, power on/off time setting, standby setting, downloading intervals setting, On-demand intervals setting, date and time setting, Login password setting, contents management…


 

Volume settings interface is as shown in the below picture, users can set max five time periods volumes for hardware terminal. In default, hardware terminals have a volume for 00:00~23:59.

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Brightness settings interface is as shown in the below picture, users can set max five time periods brightness for hardware terminal. In default, hardware terminals have certain brightness for 00:00~23:59. Generally, brightness value 0 is darkest, 10 means most bright. However, some LED screen has an opposite logic on brightness.

 

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Power on and off setting interface is as shown in the below picture, including daily mode and weekly mode. Daily mode means users can define daily on/off time for hardware terminals; if users want 24hours working set it 00:00~00:00. Weekly mode means users can define power on/off time based on week for hardware terminals; if users want 24hours on Sunday, set it 00:00~00:00.

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Standby intervals setting is shown as in the below picture, users can set max five standby intervals for a hardware terminal. 00:00~00:00 means the blank configuration. Contents will stop playing and screen will go to black once the hardware terminal accesses into the standby condition.

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Download intervals interface is as shown in the below picture, users can set max five download intervals for a hardware terminal, 00:00~00:00 means blank configuration; 00:00~23:59 means downloading can be available for any time of the whole day. Hardware terminals only download contents from server within the download intervals set by users. Note: configuration, program and system package downloading is not limited to the download intervals.

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On-demand Intervals interface is as shown on the below picture, users can set max five on-demand intervals for a hardware terminal, 00:00~00:00 means blank configuration; 00:00~23:59 means on-demand is available any time of the whole day. Hardware terminal only can play on-demand programs within the on-demand intervals set by users.

 

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Hardware Terminal Date and Time setting interface is as shown in the below picture. Users can manually set the terminal date and time. The terminal will check with the server once terminal rebooted, it will be automatically revised to the server time if the difference between it and server more than 5s.

 

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Hardware Terminal Login Password Setting is shown as in below picture, users can set a password consisting of 6 numbers. Once password set, a login password interface will be shown if the users want to go to setting interface for setting. If users forgot password, can set or clear the password by remote control via server.

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Contents management interface is shown as in the below picture, users can access into the loop, on-demand and insert campaigns via “playlist” button. The updated contents come from the external USB drive (exported from the server via the standalone export software). “Clear” button means manually clear all the playing contents, please be careful to use this button.

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2.3      Advanced Settings

Hardware terminal advanced settings is shown as in the below picture.

“Play Path” means the storage place of the current contents playing, including mainboard memory, SD card, USB disk; if the hardware terminal shows “no playlist”, users can check if the play path is correct or not.

 “Rotation” button is used to set the rotation angle of the Android system; 0 and 180° is suitable for landscape model, and 90 and 270° is suitable for portrait model.

 

“Sync Play” button is used to make multiplayers (in same local network area) to play the loop campaign in synchronization.

 “Network Watchdog”, if network watchdog is opened, the hardware terminal will count from the first time of disconnection with server, after heartbeat time, if the connection to the server still fails, the hardware terminal will be automatically rebooted if connect to server time out.

 “Heartbeat” means the intervals of the hardware terminal reports the connection status to the server, this parameter is related to the server configuration, please do not change the default value without our permission.

 “Play log” button is used to set if the play log temporarily saved in local and upload to the server. “off” means do not save and upload play log to the server; setting time for storage means the date of un-uploaded play log storage; Even setting the saving time, once the play log are uploaded to the server, the local storage information will be automatically deleted.

 “Time zone” is used to set the time zone of the hardware terminal.

 “Interval” is used to setting interval for each day’s weather information when multiple days weather information are set.

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2.4      Network & Standalone Mode

Network and standalone modes exchange interface is as shown in the below picture. The default mode is network mode. If setting as standalone mode, hardware terminal can automatically play the current contents in full screen from pictures, videos in sequence from designated storage path. “Rotation” button is used to set the rotation of the screen and contents. “Playtime” means each picture playing time. “Style” is sued to define the full filled or auto scale of the picture and video. “Effect” is used to control the picture transition effect.

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2.5      Reboot

“Reboot” button is used to reboot the hardware terminal.

2.6      Start Player

Press “Start Player” button after hardware terminal configuration finished. Terminal will play the program made in sever.

3      ANNEX

3.1      Resolution for each size of the panel

Screen Size

Landscape

Portrait

12’’

1280x800

800x1280

19’’

1368x768

768x1368

22’’

1920x1080

1080x1920

26’’

1368x768

768x1368

32’’

1368x768

768x1368

42’’ or larger

1920x1080

1080x1920

HDMI HD

1280x720

720x1280

HDMI Full HD

1920x1080

1080x1920

VGA General

1360x768

768x1360

AV PAL

720x576

576x720

AV NTSC

720x480

480x720

3.2      Media Support

Image Formats: JPG, PNG, BMP and etc…

In JPG, only RGB color is supported, while CMYK is not supported.

 Images resolution exceeded 2000*2000 will automatically lossless uploaded proportionally scaled to within 2000*2000 once submitted.

 

Audio FormatsMP3, WMA, WAV, EAAC+, APE, FLAC, BSAC, OGG and etc…

AC3 and DTS are not supported because of uncommitted.

Video Coding supported: MPEG-1/2/4, H.263, H.264, WMV9, RV8/9/10, Divx-3/4/5

Video FormatsMKV, MOV, MP4, AVI, TS, MPG, ASF, FLV, OGG, RM and etc…

Notice: The best is H.264 encapsulated by AVI, 1920*1080 resolution, and the recommended stream is 8~10Mbps; It needs more resources to decode WMV formats. And its formats is 4~6Mbps by recommended.

3.3       Player Start

Power on the hardware terminal, the default start interface is the 5 colors interface, the hardware terminal will access into the program playing after 40s, the interface will be “playlist uploading…”, and then it will play the programs stored in the SD card inside the hardware terminal. It will show “no playlist” if there is no contents to play.

Note: if the hardware terminal shows a window of TCC8900 OEMCTRL after player starts 1 minute, which means there is no SD card or SD card has no playing programs, users need to decompress the file of name of “V4xRxxx.zip” and copy the decompressed files (GNAMP, demo.exe and demo.bat) into the root directory of the SD card.