Operating Hours

Once you have defined the required Display Control Commands (see above) to turn the player screens on and off, you need to define the operating hours for the Player screens.

 

Click on ‘Operating Hours’ in the tree structure under ‘Options’. This will open the Operating Hours form which lists predefined Operating Hours:

 

 

To view the predefined operating hours click on one of the items on the list and then click the ‘Open’ button. This will open the form with the predefined values in it:

 

 

Time slots in green are defined as ‘enabled’, times in red are defined as ‘disabled’. The time display spans a full 24 hour day.

To define your own custom operating times for equipment you have defined control commands  for, click the ‘New’ button in the ‘Operating Hours’ listing form:

 

 

Once you have defined the Operating Hours and Display Control Commands we can configure this information into a player setup.

Select a player to edit.

 

 

In the frame titled ‘Display Control’, select the appropriate Operating Hours. Then enable the display control checkbox. This will allow you to select the Display ON and OFF Command. Enter the player com port number that the display is connected to. The players will send the defined commands to the specified com port at the required times, after you have uploaded the new playlists to the players.