Luminis AiO Dedicated Support Line: T: User Guide

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1 Luminis AiO Dedicated Support Line: T: User Guide

2 Contents Rear Connection Diagram 2 Introduction 3 Normal Usage 3 Manage my Media 4 Edit my Templates and Media 5 Manage Multimedia Playlist 6~8 Manage RSS & Text Playlist 9 RSS News Feeds 9 Text Messages 10~11 Schedule my Templates 12~13 Advanced Usage 14 Setup my Luminis AiO 14~15 Template Config 16~18 Interactive Web Pages 19 TV / AV 20 TV 20~22 AV 23 Users 24 User Rights 25 Network Mode 25 Template Schedules 26~27 Submitting Schedules 27 Clients 28 Groups 29 Submissions 30 Web Interface 31~32 Manage Media 33 Edit Templates and Media 34 Manage Multimedia Playlist 35~36 Manage RSS & Text Playlist 37 RSS News Feeds 37 Text Messaging 38~39 Template Config 40~42 Preview 43 User Rights 44 Schedule My Templates 45~46 More Options 46 Change your Username and Password 46 Choose another Luminis AiO Installation 47 Publish Media 47~48 Edit Clients 49 Logging Out 50 Appendix 1: PowerPoint Support 51~52 Notes 53 Rear Connection Diagram VGA OUTPUT RS232 CONNECTION POWER OUTPUT HDMI OUTPUT VGA OUTPUT ETHERNET CONNECTION USB INPUT AUDIO OUTPUT 02

3 Introduction Luminis AiO is an all-in-one digital media player. The application can be used for simple or complex templates and playlists, installed on and configured from one purpose built unit, or several units on a network with media, templates and playlists managed remotely. This guide covers all aspects of the system and is separated into normal and advanced usage sections. Normal Usage Luminis AiO will run in Live Mode automatically upon starting the unit. Connect a keyboard and press the escape key to access the main menu. (Note that if you are using a PS/2 keyboard this needs to be connected before you start up your Luminis AiO unit.) From the main menu you will be unable to access any part of the Luminis AiO software. Click Exit to Windows, then double click the Luminis AiO icon on the desktop. Enter the username Administrator. The default password is blank (this can be changed later.) You will now have full access to Luminis AiO. You can return to Live Mode at any time by clicking the Clever Little Box logo in the centre of the screen. You can get on-screen help from any part of Luminis AiO by clicking the Help button. 03

4 Manage my Media Click the Manage my Media button to import, export and delete media files. Select the import source from the Select Import Drive dropdown menu. You can import files from USB key and USB hard drive or USB CD-ROM drive. You can navigate subfolders using the icons. Subfolders can be created within your My Media Directory by closing Luminis AiO and using Windows Explorer. Use the file type icons to filter the list of files in Import Directory by: Movies - WMV, MPG 1/2 & AVI Animations - SWF Still images - JPG, BMP & GIF PowerPoint - PPT, PPS & PPSX Select the files you wish to manage from the Import Directory or My Media Directory. You can use the ctrl and shift keys or the All and None buttons to select multiple files. Click Import to copy the selected files from import directory to my media directory and Export to copy from my media directory to import directory. Click the Delete button to remove the selected files. Note that you will not be able to retrieve any files that have been deleted in error. When the Preview button is highlighted orange, selected files will preview in the Preview Media window. Click this button again to toggle preview on and off. Click OK when you have finished managing your files. 04

5 Edit my Templates and Media Click the Edit my Templates and Media button to setup templates and playlists. Use the Previous and Next buttons to cycle through the available templates. When you first receive your Luminis AiO unit, there are several default templates available. You can edit these and create your own see advanced usage for further information on this. If you wish to rename the template for easy reference, click the Rename Template button. For more information on the template config button, see advanced usage. When you have found the template you wish to manage, click Select. Each template may consist of several channels. These are the areas of the screen that display media or text. The picture above contains two channels a large multimedia channel at the top and a small RSS & Text channel at the bottom. Click the Next Channel button until the channel you wish to edit is highlighted in blue and click Edit. Alternatively you can click on the channel. 05

6 Manage Multimedia Playlist By default, the multimedia playlist is empty. Click Add Media to enter the Edit Multimedia Entry screen. Filter the file types using the buttons on the right hand side. As with the Manage my Media screen, you can choose from: Movies Animations Still images - WMV, MPG 1/2 & AVI - SWF - JPG, BMP & GIF You can also select www to add a web page to the playlist or the remote control icon to add live TV, radio or AV from another source (you must have a TV tuner installed for this.) Click on a file in the Media Files Available list to preview it in the Preview Media window. You can toggle preview on and off by clicking the Preview button. PowerPoint - PPS & PPT 06

7 Select a Transition Style from the dropdown menu if required. At the end of the file this transition will be used to link to the next one. If you do not want a transition select (none). If you are adding a still image or PowerPoint slideshow, use the arrow buttons to set the duration in seconds to display the file before moving onto the next. If you are adding a movie you do not need to set duration, this will be read automatically from the file. If you are adding Flash animations, you can specify a duration (eg. 10 secs), or if your file contains an End Stop, you can play until this is reached. If you are adding one animation with an End Stop, set the duration to 0. If you are adding more than one, set the duration for each file to 0. If you do not know if your file contains an End Stop, please contact the source you obtained the file from to check or time the animation and set this as the duration. Tick the Stretch Media box if you want the media to fill the entire channel. If this option is left unticked the aspect ratio of the file will be preserved, but this may cause black letterbox borders around the media. If you have selected TV / AV, select the channel or AV source you wish to display and set the duration. If you have selected www enter the URL into the webpage field and set the duration. You can click the View button to preview the webpage in the Preview Media window. Note that you must have an active internet connection in order to display web pages. If you want your customers to be able to interact with websites you will need to enable the mouse please see Advanced Usage for further information. www can also support Exterity IPTV streams. To add a stream, enter <videostream>exterity:// :49408/?audio=20,video=17 in the webpage field. Replace with the appropriate multicast IP as reported by avediaplayer check with your network administrator or installation engineer for this information. Note: Exterity feeds will not preview in Luminis AiO. 07

8 When you have made your selection, click the >> button to add this to the selected media window. You can add more files in the same way, remove files from the selected media window by clicking << or confirm your entries and add to the playlist by clicking OK. Click Back to cancel and return to the Manage Multimedia Playlist screen without adding new entries. Now that the playlist has entries you can edit, delete and move them. Click Edit to return to the Edit Multimedia Entry screen as above. The only difference with this screen is that you can only select one file, webpage or TV entry to replace the currently selected entry. Click Delete Media to remove the entry from the playlist. Click Move Up or Move Down to change the selected entry s position in the playlist. When you have finished, click Menu to return to the main menu screen or Back to return to the Select Which Channel To Edit screen. 08

9 Manage RSS & Text Playlist As with the multimedia playlist, by default the RSS & Text playlist is empty. Click Txt to add a text message or RSS to enter a live news text feed. Note that you must have a working internet connection on this unit to display RSS news feeds. RSS News Feeds You can select one or more RSS news feeds. If you select multiple feeds, one story will be displayed from each feed every time the playlist cycles around. Click the icon or the text label of any of the news feeds you wish to display. Once a source is selected the icon changes colour and the label becomes bold. Click OK to confirm your entries and return to the playlist or click Back to cancel and return. The RSS feed will be added to the playlist with the default font, style and colour. To change these, click on the entry and click Edit. The screen will be similar to the screen for entering text messages (see overleaf.) 09

10 Text Messages You can add your own text messages to the screen to inform customers about your latest news and offers, or more general information such as the date and time. Enter the text you want to display in the box at the top of the screen. If you do not have a keyboard connected to the Luminis AiO unit, click Show Keyboard to view an on-screen keyboard that can be used for text entry. Click on the letters to enter them into the text field. Use the shift button to toggle between lower case, upper case and symbols. Use the return button to confirm your entry and return to the Edit Message Entry screen. Press the backspace button to delete the character you last entered: Shift Return Backspace 10

11 Select the font and size for the text in this entry. Select the style for this entry from bold, italic, and underlined or a combination of the three using the tick boxes. Select Format Text Color or Format Background Color and choose a colour from the palette or your saved custom colours, or enter the red, green and blue values for a specific colour. Select a direction from the Scrolling Text dropdown menu to make the text scroll across the screen in Live Mode. If no option is selected, the text will appear static. Where there is too much text to fit on one line, the entry will be split and one half will appear, followed by the other. Click the Add Time or Add Date buttons to insert the current time or date into the message these appear in the format <Time> and <Date>. Each time the entry is displayed these will be updated so the correct information is always displayed. Click the Set To Default button to return the font, size, style and colour settings to the default for new text entries. Click OK to confirm your entry and return to the playlist or click Back to cancel. Now that the playlist has entries you can edit, delete and move them. Click on an entry to select it and click Edit to return to the Edit Message Entry screen as above. When you have finished click Menu to return to the main menu screen or Back to return to the Select Which Channel To Edit screen. Click Delete Entry to remove the entry from the playlist. Click Move Up or Move Down to change the selected entry s position in the playlist. 11

12 Schedule my Templates Click the Schedule My Templates button to choose which templates to play throughout the day in Live Mode. Select the day you wish to schedule from the list on the left. If you do not want to schedule each day individually, you can repeat one day for the entire week. In this case you should setup a template schedule on one day only and select that day from the Repeat Day dropdown menu. Click Add to insert a new template into the schedule. Set the times that you want the template to start and end, select the template to display from the dropdown menu and click Update. The template will now appear in the schedule window. Click Edit to change the times or template to be displayed, click Remove to delete the template from the schedule or click Add to insert another template. If no template is scheduled the screen will appear black with the text No Template Scheduled. 12

13 You can only have one template scheduled at a time. Since times are inclusive, you cannot schedule one template to end at 12:00:00 and another to begin at 12:00:00. Templates should be scheduled to finish one second before the next template begins (eg 11:59:59.) If any templates overlap, a message will appear at the top of the screen and the entry that overlaps will be highlighted in red. The offending entry should be removed from the schedule as this can cause errors in Live Mode. The Load and Save buttons are only used when this Luminis AiO unit is configured in network mode. Please refer to Network Mode section under Advanced Usage for more details. 13

14 ADVANCED USAGE This section of the user guide covers system settings for the Luminis AiO unit and template configuration / creation. It should be noted that the following steps should only be performed by users with a good working knowledge of the Luminis AiO application, as choosing the wrong options could cause Luminis AiO to stop functioning correctly. Setup my Luminis AiO Click the Setup My Luminis AiO button to change settings on your unit. The IP address and version number displayed at the top of the screen may be useful for troubleshooting and technical support. The Clients & Groups button is only used when this Luminis AiO unit is configured in Network mode. Please refer to Network Mode section of this user guide for more details. Click the Screen Settings button to change the screen saver, power management and screen resolution. The screen saver should be disabled at all times and the monitor should not be allowed to turn off as these settings will prevent your customers from seeing content. Click the Network Settings button to run the network connection wizard for this unit. You can set the computer name and workgroup. Contact your IT department for further information on settings in this wizard. 14

15 Click the Internet Settings button to change your internet properties. These settings allow your Luminis AiO unit to connect to the internet for the latest news feeds and software updates and should be given to you by your IT department. Click the Audio button to adjust the volume and balance for the speakers connected to your Luminis AiO unit. If you do not want any audio to be played you should tick the mute button. Click the TV / AV button to tune your television / radio receiver and select AV sources. Please refer to the TV / AV section of this user guide for further information on these settings. Click the Date & Time button to change the system time, date and time zone and select whether to automatically adjust for daylight savings. This information will affect the text message display and template scheduling so you should ensure that it is correct. Click the Users button to manage Luminis AiO users and set access rights. Please refer to the User Rights section of this user guide for further information on these settings. Click the Reboot button to restart the Luminis AiO unit. Click the Exit To Windows button to return to the desktop. Make sure you restart the Luminis AiO application from the Start menu when you have finished working in Windows. 15

16 Template Config Open Edit my Templates and Media and select the template you want to modify. If you want to create a new template, select one that is similar to your desired final template to use as a starting point. Click the Template Config button. Click copy template if you want to create a new template based on this layout. This is also useful for backing up template layouts before making any changes as you can delete unwanted templates later on using the delete template button. Note that this will not backup any playlists and media will have to be scheduled again. New channels are created by splitting an existing channel in two. Click on a channel to highlight it and click the blue + icon on the side on which you want to create the new channel. For example, in the picture above, to split the multimedia channel horizontally with the new channel on the right, click the + icon on the righthand side of the screen. Select the type for the new channel from Multimedia With Audio, Multimedia Without Audio, Text & RSS Feeds and Blank. Make sure your template has only one multimedia channel with audio, otherwise you may hear sound from several different media files at once. The multimedia channel with audio will have the headphones icon at the bottom while channels without audio will not. 16

17 The blank channel can be used if you want an empty space in Live Mode the desktop will be shown in this channel, or any other application you may have running in the background. Click OK to accept this channel type and add the channel to the template. Click Cancel to return without adding this channel. To remove any channel, click to highlight it and click the red button at the bottom of the template. To resize, click on the divider between two channels and drag the border into the desired position. Rulers will appear at the top and left of the template to assist with accurate positioning. The template format can be set to portrait or landscape by clicking the Change Format button. Please note that the format change applies only to design mode. In order to play content on a portrait screen, desktop rotation must be enabled on the graphics card please refer to Appendix 2 for further details. You can add borders to channels to make them stand out more. Select the channel you want to change and click the Border Design button. 17

18 You can add borders to channels to make them stand out more. Select the channel you want to change and click the Border Design button. Use the Color Selection dropdown menu to choose the area you wish to change from Primary Color, Secondary Color and Background and select a colour from the palette below. Use the tick boxes to toggle bevelled and tube effect on and off, and set the bevel size and border width using the arrow buttons. Click no border to remove the border completely. Click save to confirm your settings and return to Template Config and click back to cancel. When you have finished configuring your template, click save to go back to the template selection screen. Click back to cancel you will be asked to confirm if you want to abandon the changes. 18

19 TV / AV Your Luminis AiO unit can display live TV or feeds from other AV sources (such as DVD players or satellite receivers,) either as part of a template also showing text and animations, or full screen. Luminis AiO is designed to work with the optional Hauppauge HVR900 USB TV tuner other hardware is not supported. Please note that when you launch Live Mode, there may be a delay of between 30 and 60 seconds before the TV channel is displayed while the Hauppauge WinTV splash screen is displayed. It is normal for this splash screen to be displayed even if you are not showing TV or do not have a tuner installed. It is only possible to have one multimedia channel within a template displaying TV; any other multimedia channels must be displaying multimedia files or web pages. TV To configure your TV settings, ensure the USB TV tuner is connected and that an aerial is plugged in, and click the TV / AV button in the Setup Luminis AiO screen. You may have to wait a few seconds for the program to appear. When it has loaded you should see the following screen: (If the TV display fills the window, you can right click to bring up the controls.) Click the Menu button and select Suite Manager: You can now scan for channels and AV sources: 19

20 The default settings should be correct, however if you have been advised that you will need to change them then do so and click Scan. The program will begin to scan for analogue and then digital channels available in your area. This scan may take up to ten minutes to complete. When it has completed, you will have a list of available channels in the right hand window: 20

21 Click Close to return to the TV tuner window to preview your channels. Use the up and down arrows on the left to switch between channels. You can also click menu, Select Channel to choose from a list. There might be a slight delay when switching between channels. Click the X in the top right corner to return to Luminis AiO. You can now schedule TV channels within Edit my Media and Templates. 21

22 AV To configure your AV settings, ensure the AV source is connected via the composite cables and is active (i.e. a DVD is playing or the satellite receiver is turned on and tuned to a channel,) and click the TV / AV button in the Setup Luminis AiO screen. You may have to wait a few seconds for the wizard to appear. Enter the suite manager program as described above and select the Sources tab. Select Composite Source and change the video format if necessary (consult the documentation that accompanies your AV source if you are unsure.) Enter a name and description for this source this should be something you will be able to remember easily as this will appear in the menu when adding media. Click Close to return to the tuner window to preview your AV source. Click the X in the top right corner to return to Luminis AiO. You can now schedule your AV source within Edit my Media and Templates. 22

23 Users Where many different people will make changes to the Luminis AiO system, it may be beneficial to have different user accounts and passwords. These accounts can also have access granted or restricted to specific parts of the Luminis AiO application. To manage users, select the Users button in the Setup Luminis AiO screen. To add a new user, click the Add button and enter the following information: Username Password First Name Surname The name that the user will type to login to Luminis AiO The default password the user will type. This can be blank and can be changed by the user when they login. The user s first name used for reference The user s surname used for reference Expiry Date If you want the user account to expire after a specific date, enter it here. By default this is 31/12/2099 Enabled This box to allow the user to log in. Removing this tick will prevent them from being able to access Luminis AiO. To remove a user from the system, click the Delete button. 23

24 User Rights To change which part of the system users can access, click the grey box next to the username and click the Rights button. Note that you cannot change access rights for the Administrator account. Use the tickboxes and dropdown menus to enable or disable access to each part of Luminis AiO for the selected user. If the Luminis AiO system is configured in network mode, you can specify which Luminis AiO clients each user can submit content to. Please refer to Network Mode section of this user guide for more details. Use the All and None buttons to enabled or disable access to all parts of the software quickly. To commit your changes and return to the users screen, click Save. To return without saving changes, click Cancel. New layout Open layout Save template Network Mode If you have more than one Luminis AiO unit on your network it is possible to configure them in a server/client(s) relationship. Please note that the configuration can be complicated and requires an understanding of Windows Internet Information Services, and that this would usually be performed by a Luminis AiO engineer. The Luminis AiO Server is the unit that all media and templates are stored on and where all scheduling occurs. The clients play media and templates assigned to them by and sent from the Luminis AiO Server. Using the rest of this user guide, upload your media files to the server and setup your templates before proceeding. If you require different players to show different content, you Save template as Delete channel Template settings Close layout editor 24

25 Template Schedules When you have setup a template with the required media on the server, you need to setup a schedule. This is done in the same way as if the server was running as a standalone playback unit. Click the Save button when you have finished setting up the schedule. 25

26 Enter a name for this schedule and click Save. This should make the schedule easy to identify, so it may help to name it after the screen location on which you intend to display it. To remove schedules that have been saved previously, select them and click Delete. When you have saved the schedule you will be returned to the schedule templates screen. To recall a previously saved schedule, click the Load button. Select the schedule from the list and click Load again. You can now make changes and save the schedule again. Submitting schedules When you have saved your template schedule you need to submit it to one or more Luminis AiO clients for it to be displayed. From the setup Luminis AiO screen, click the Clients & Groups button. 26

27 Clients All clients will be added to Luminis AiO by the engineer that configures the system. If you need to add new clients you can do this by clicking the Add button at the bottom of the screen and entering the following information: Name Local Address User-friendly name for the client IP address or DNS name of the client. Refer to your network administrator if you are unsure. Server Address This is the HTTP address of this Luminis AiO server. Refer to the Luminis AiO engineer for this information. Reference Product Code This reference field can be used for storing information relevant to the client, for example the serial number. This is the unique product code for Luminis AiO. This information is available in the setup Luminis AiO screen on the client. To remove clients, click the Delete button. 27

28 Groups Submissions are sent to clients in predefined groups rather than by selecting each client you want to send the template schedule to. If you do not already have groups created you will need to create one. By default all clients are added to the (Unallocated) group. To create a new group, click the Add button next to the Available Group(s) dropdown menu at the top of the screen. Enter a name for the new group and click OK. The new group will be empty, so you will need to add one or more clients to it. Select the (Unallocated) group from the Available Group(s). Click the grey box next to the client you wish to assign to a group use the ctrl & shift keys to select more than one client. Click the Assign Group button in the bottom right corner of the screen. Select the group you wish to add the client(s) to and click OK. Repeat this procedure for all clients in the (Unallocated) group. 28

29 Submissions In order to play the correct media and templates, the Luminis AiO clients must have a job submitted to them. Before submitting, check that you have completed the following steps: added media to a template, added the template to a schedule, saved the schedule, added the relevant client(s) to a group. Select the group that you wish to submit a template schedule to from the Available Group(s) dropdown menu in Clients & Groups. Check that the correct client(s) are listed and click the Submit button. Select the template schedule you have saved from the dropdown list and click OK. You will see a confirmation box appear: Make a note of the Job ID as this may be required for support or troubleshooting purposes, and click OK. The client(s) that this job have been submitted to will pick up the new job information and download any required media and templates before switching to the new template schedule. The frequency of updates can be set on the clients please contact Luminis AiO support for further details. 29

30 Please note that clients will not pick up any changes until they have been submitted. Even when media files are added or removed from a template already being played by a client, this MUST be submitted using the steps above before the change will be seen. Web Interface If your Luminis AiO unit is connected to your local network, you can manage media, edit playlists and schedule templates from another PC without having to exit Live Mode and interrupt playback. You can find the IP address of your Luminis AiO unit in the Setup my Luminis AiO screen. Enter ADDRESS]/ Luminis AiO into Internet Explorer on another PC on the network to open the Web Interface. If you have a compatible router, it may be possible to forward ports from your external IP address in order to manage the Luminis AiO unit from a remote location. You should refer to your network administrator in order to set this up. Enter your username and password and click Log In. The default username is administrator and the password is blank, though individual user accounts can be created (see the User Rights section of this user guide.) After logging in you will see the main Web Interface menu. 30

31 Your Luminis AiO unit can remain in Live Mode while you make your changes. 31

32 Managing Media Click the Manage Media button to upload media files to your Luminis AiO unit and remove existing files. Click Browse to find a file on your local PC or on a network drive to upload to the Luminis AiO unit. Select a file in the dialog box that appears and click Open. The file will then be transferred to the Luminis AiO unit and will be available to add to playlists. Tick the Preview box to show a preview of the selected file. Note that large movie files may take a few seconds to start previewing. If you are uploading files that require specific codecs, you will need to make sure they are installed on the Luminis AiO unit. To remove a file from the Luminis AiO unit, select it and click Delete. Click OK, Menu or Back to return to the main menu. 32

33 Edit Templates and Media Click the Edit My Templates and Media button to setup playlists. Click on a channel to highlight it in blue and then click Edit to manage the playlist. 33

34 Manage Multimedia Playlist Click Add Media to enter the Edit Multimedia Entry page. Filter the file types using the buttons on the right hand side. You can choose from: Movies Animations Still images PowerPoint - WMV, MPG 1/2 & AVI - SWF - JPG, BMP & GIF - PPS & PPT You can also select www to add a web page to the playlist or the remote control icon to add live TV, radio or AV from another source (you must have a TV tuner card installed on the Luminis AiO unit for this.) Tick the Preview box and click on a file in the Media Files Available list to preview it in the Preview Media window. Select a Transition Style from the dropdown menu if required. At the end of the file this transition will be used to link to the next one. If you do not want a transition select (None). Use the arrow buttons or enter a duration in seconds to display the file before moving onto the next. Duration for movie files should be read automatically provided the correct codecs are installed. Tick the Stretch Media box if you want the media to fill the entire channel. If this option is left unticked the aspect ratio of the file will be preserved, but this may cause black letterbox borders around the media. If you have selected TV / AV, select the channel or AV source you wish to display and set the duration. 34

35 If you have selected www enter the URL into the Web Page field and set the duration. Note that you must have an active internet connection on the Luminis AiO unit in order to display web pages. www can also support Exterity IPTV streams. To add a stream, enter exterity:// :49408/?audio=20,video=17 in the Web Page field. Replace with the appropriate multicast IP as reported by avediaplayer check with your network administrator or installation engineer for this information. Please note that unlike the application version of Luminis AiO, the <videostream> prefix is added automatically. When you have made your selection, click the >> button to add this to the Selected Media window. You can add more files in the same way, remove files from the right hand side by clicking << or confirm your entries and add to the playlist by clicking OK. Click Back to cancel and return to the Manage Multimedia Playlist screen without adding new entries. Now that the playlist has entries you can edit, delete and move them. Click Edit to return to the Edit Multimedia Entry screen as above. Click Delete Media to remove the entry from the playlist. Click Move Up or Move Down to change the selected entry s position in the playlist. When you have finished click Menu to return to the main menu screen or Back to return to the Select Which Channel To Edit screen. 35

36 Manage RSS & Text Playlist Click Txt to add a text message or RSS to enter a live news text feed. Note that you must have a working internet connection on the Luminis AiO unit to display RSS news feeds. RSS News Feeds You can select one or more RSS news feeds. If you select multiple feeds, one story will be displayed from each feed every time the playlist cycles around. Click the icon or the text label of any of the news feeds you wish to display. Once a source is selected the icon changes colour and the label becomes bold. Click OK to confirm your entries and return to the playlist or click Back to cancel and return. The RSS feed will be added to the playlist with the default font, style and colour. To change these, click on the entry and click Edit. The screen will be similar to the screen for entering text messages (see page 38) 36

37 Text Messages You can add your own text messages to the screen to inform customers about your latest news and offers, or more general information such as the date and time. Enter the text you want to display in the box at the top of the screen. Select the font and size for the text in this entry. Select the style for this entry from bold, italic, and underlined or a combination of the three using the tick boxes. Select Font Colour or Background Colour and click to choose a colour from the palette. Select the colour you want to use or enter the HEX value if you know it. Click the tick button to accept this colour or the cross to cancel your selection and return to the Edit Message Entry screen. Tick the Scrolling Text box to make the message text scroll across the screen in Live Mode. If this option is not ticked the text will appear static. Where there is too much text to fit on one line, the entry will be split and one half will appear, followed by the other. Click the Add Time or Add Date buttons to insert the current time or date into the message these appear in the format <Time> and <Date>. Each time the entry is displayed these will be updated so the correct information is always displayed. 37

38 Click the Set To Default button to return the font, size, style and colour settings to the default for new text entries. Click OK to confirm your entry and return to the playlist or click Back to cancel. Now that the playlist has entries you can edit, delete and move them. Click on an entry to select it and click Edit to return to the Edit Message Entry screen as above. Click Delete Entry to remove the entry from the playlist. Click Move Up or Move Down to change the selected entry s position in the playlist. When you have finished click Menu to return to the main menu screen or Back to return to the channel selection screen. 38

39 Template Config You can change the layout and borders of templates in the same way as in the desktop version of Luminis AiO. If you want to create a new template, select one that is similar to your desired final template to use as a starting point. Click the Configure button. Click Copy Template if you want to create a new template based on this layout. This is also useful for backing up template layouts before making any changes as you can delete unwanted templates later on using the Delete Template button. Note that this will not backup any playlists and media will have to be scheduled again. New channels are created by splitting an existing channel in two. Click on a channel to highlight it and click the blue + icon on the side on which you want to create the new channel. For example, in the picture above, to split the multimedia channel horizontally with the new channel on the right, click the + icon on the right-hand side of the screen. Select the type for the new channel from Multimedia With Audio, Multimedia Without Audio, Text & RSS Feeds and Blank. Make sure your template has only one multimedia channel with audio, otherwise you may hear sound from several different media files at once. The multimedia channel with audio will have the headphones icon at the bottom while channels without audio will not. 39

40 The blank channel can be used if you want an empty space in Live Mode the desktop will be shown in this channel, or any other application you may have running in the background. Click OK to accept the selected channel type and add the channel to the template. Click Cancel to return without adding this channel. To remove any channel, click to highlight it and click the red button at the bottom of the template. To resize, click on the divider between two channels and drag the border into the desired position. Rulers will appear at the top and left of the template to assist with accurate positioning. The template format can be set to portrait or landscape by clicking the Change Format button. Please note that the format change applies only to design mode. In order to play content on a portrait screen, desktop rotation must be enabled on the graphics card please refer to Appendix 2 for further details. You can add borders to channels to make them stand out more. Select the channel you want to change and click the Border Design button. 40

41 Enter the HEX codes or use the palette to select a colour for the area you wish to change from Primary Color, Secondary Color and Background. Use the tick boxes to toggle Bevelled and Tube Effect on and off, and set the Bevel Size and Border Width using the arrow buttons. Click No Border to remove the border completely. Click the Refresh button to preview these settings. Click OK to confirm your settings and return to Template Config and click Back or Menu to cancel. When you have finished configuring your template, click OK to go back to the template selection screen. Click Back or Menu to cancel you will be asked to confirm if you want to abandon the changes. 41

42 Preview You can preview how a template will look when shown in Live Mode. Select the template you wish to view and click the Preview button. Please note that this preview is not an exact replication of how the template will look in Live Mode, and that it is intended for guideline only. Transition effects are not displayed. You must have any required codecs installed on your PC to preview media files. Click Menu or Back to exit the template preview. 42

43 User rights If you have user accounts set up you can restrict certain users from being able to edit media or text in specified channels. Click on the channel you wish to restrict and click the Rights button. Select each user in turn and use the dropdown menu to set their access level to the selected channel. Permissions are as follows: Write Read None User has full access to the channel User can view the channel playlist but cannot modify it The user cannot access the channel If a user tries to access a channel they do not have permission to view or edit they will see an error message: Please note that user rights can only be setup from the administrator account. 43

44 Schedule My Templates Click the Schedule My Templates button to choose which templates to play throughout the day in Live Mode. Select the day you wish the schedule from the list on the left. If you do not want to schedule each day individually, you can repeat one day for the entire week. In this case you should setup a template schedule on one day only and select that day from the Repeat Day dropdown menu. Click Add to insert a new template into the schedule. Set the times that you want the template to start and end, select the template to display from the dropdown menu and click Update. The template will now appear in the schedule window. Double click on the entry to change the times or template to be displayed, click Remove to delete the template from the schedule or click Add to insert another template. You can only have one template scheduled at a time. Since times are inclusive, you cannot schedule one template to end at 12:00:00 and another to begin at 12:00:00. Templates should be scheduled to finish one second before the next template begins (eg 11:59:59.) If no template is scheduled the screen will appear black with the text No Template Scheduled. 44

45 If any templates overlap, a message will appear at the top of the screen and the entry that overlaps will be highlighted in red. The offending entry should be removed from the schedule as this can cause errors in Live Mode. To save a schedule to submit to a client PC use the Save button. The Luminis AiO unit must be configured in network mode. Please refer to Network Mode section of this user guide under Advanced Usage for more details. More Options Click the More Options button to change passwords, connect to other Luminis AiO units on the network or submit template schedules in network mode. Change your Username and Password User names can be set up within the Luminis AiO application. Please refer to the User Rights section of this user guide for more information. Users can change their own username and password from the More Options page in the web interface. To change the username, enter the required username into the Username field and enter the password you would like to use into the Password field and click Update. These are the details you will need to use next time you log in. To change just the password, leave the Username field as it is, enter a new password and click Update. 45

46 Choose another Luminis AiO installation Click Add to enter the details to another unit on your network. Enter a description and the IP address this can be found in the Setup My Luminis AiO screen on the unit. Click Update to add the unit. Click Edit or Remove to change a unit s details or delete it from the list. Click Menu or Back to return to the main menu or click Log Out to end your session. Publish Media If you have more than one Luminis AiO units configured in a server/client relationship, you can submit jobs from the web interface. Please refer to the Network Mode section of this user guide for details on setting up clients and groups. When you have saved your template schedule you need to submit it to one or more Luminis AiO clients for it to be displayed. From the More Options page, click the Publish Media button. In order to play the correct media and templates, the Luminis AiO clients must have a job submitted to them. Before submitting, check that you have completed the following steps: added media to a template, added the template to a schedule, saved the schedule, added the relevant client(s) to a group. 46

47 Select the group that you wish to submit a template schedule to from the Available Groups dropdown menu. Check that the correct client(s) are displayed. If they are not, you can add clients that have not been allocated to a group already by selecting them from the Add Client To Group dropdown menu and clicking Add. You can remove a client from a group by selecting the (Unallocated) group and adding the client to it. Select the template schedule you wish to send from the Media Submission dropdown menu and click the Submit button. You will see a confirmation box appear: Make a note of the Job ID as this may be required for support or troubleshooting purposes, and click OK. The client(s) that this job have been submitted to will pick up the new job information and download any required media and templates before switching to the new template schedule. The frequency of updates can be set on the clients please contact Luminis AiO support for further details. Please note that clients will not pick up any changes until they have been submitted. Even when media files are added or removed from a template already being played by a client, this MUST be submitted using the steps above before the change will be seen. 47

48 Edit Clients All clients will be added to Luminis AiO by the engineer that configures the system. If you need to add new clients you can do this by clicking the Edit Clients button in Publish Media. Click Add and enter the following information: Friendly Name User-friendly name for the client IP/Name Media Server Reference number. Product Code IP address or DNS name of the client. Refer to your network administrator if you are unsure. This is the HTTP address of this Luminis AiO server. Refer to the Luminis AiO engineer for this information. This reference field can be used for storing information relevant to the client, for example the serial This is the unique product code for Luminis AiO. This information is available in the setup Luminis AiO screen on the client. To remove clients, click the Delete button. 48

49 Logging out When you have finished using the Luminis AiO web interface, you should log out for security reasons. Return to the main menu and click the Luminis AiO robot in the middle of the page, or go into More Options and click the Log Out button. If a user is left logged into the Luminis AiO web interface without interacting for a short while, they will be logged out automatically. Click the OK button to be directed to the login page. 49

50 Appendix 1: PowerPoint Support In order to support PowerPoint slideshows, there are some settings in Windows Explorer that need to be changed. Note: these settings will already be in place for Microsoft Office 2007 installations, however they are returned to default when Microsoft Office updates are applied and/or a different version of Microsoft Office is installed. Exit Luminis AiO and return to the Windows desktop. Open My Computer and select Tools > Folder Options Select the File Types tab: 50

51 Highlight PPS and click Advanced. Make sure Confirm open after download is unticked and click OK. For PPT files also ensure Confirm open after download is unticked and ensure Browse in same window is ticked: Repeat these steps for PPSX and PPTX file types if you have updated your installation of Microsoft Office

52 Saving a PPS file For best support, PowerPoint slideshows should be saved as PPS files. Before saving the file, you will need to make sure the following settings are correct. Click Slide Show > Set Up Show: Ensure show type is set to browse by an individual (window) and that show scroll bar is unticked: Ensure slides are set to advance automatically and save the file as PPS. 52

53 The slideshow can now be added to a template. Please note that Luminis AiO will only support the playback of PowerPoint files in one multimedia channel at a time. If you have more than one multimedia channel containing PowerPoint presentations, the files will display in one channel and be skipped in the other. 53

54 Appendix 2: Portrait Mode In order to play portrait templates, desktop rotation must be enabled on the graphics card on the Hydravision unit(s). Rotate Desktop Exit to Windows and launch the Catalyst Control Centre from the Start Menu: Select Displays Manager > Displays Properties. From the rotation dropdown menu, select the direction in which the desktop should be rotated this will be dependent on which way the screen is to be mounted: The desktop will now be rotated. Ensure that when the screen is mounted in a portrait orientation, the Start Menu and taskbar appear at the bottom of the screen. 54

55 Template Format Hydravision will automatically stretch templates to fit the screen, so landscape templates will continue to display correctly in Live Mode. However, configuring the template in portrait mode will make it easier to get channels in the correct proportions. In Template Config, click the Change Format button to switch between portrait and landscape: This is for design purposes only, all other functionality remains the same. Because the rotation will be handled by the graphics card, there is no requirement to rotate media files. 55

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