Specifications

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iCOMPEL Digital Signage - User Guide (V8.1.1)

If your Layouts include video files, you must increase this allowance by at least 2GB per hour of standard quality video.

Higher quality video may require even more disk space.

You can see the size on the Status page of the Publisher iCOMPEL after publishing.

A Subscriber iCOMPEL requires at least twice the disk space to store the channel twice - once for channel subscribing

purposes and another for displaying.

7.3.2 Publishing a Channel

Once the channel role is set to publish and the publisher configured to publish , then you are ready to begin

publishing.

When you are satisfied with the schedule you have on the publisher, you can publish it. Click on the menu item Channels

and Publish Channel. This will take you to the following page where you can publish your channel:

The publish tab

If you are publishing to a USB memory stick, then you will need to insert that into the iCOMPEL before you press the

publish button.

You can simply press Publish Channel Now to begin the publish process or you can set a time in the future to activate

this channel.

Alternatively, you could use the Activate after option. This will immediately start the channel publishing as per the

Activate as soon as possible option, but the subscribers will not show the updated channel contents until the chosen

date.

Activate after is useful to ensure that all the subscribers start showing the channel content at the same time rather than

as soon as they can copy it across. A slow network with many large media files in the channel could lead to a large

difference in when each subscriber completes downloading the channel content.

The Publishing Process

What happens next depends on how the publisher is configured:

To an iCOMPEL or External Server

If the publisher is configured to publish the channel to itself or an external FTP site, then the copying process will begin. A

progress bar will be displayed showing how much of the upload is complete.

The next time the subscribing iCOMPEL players check the channel, they will download the channel contents.

To a USB Storage Device

You will need an empty USB flash drive to publish to. The flash drive will need to be large enough to store your channel

content on - all channel content will be stored on it so if there are large movie files or images then this will need to be taken

into account.

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