Specifications

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Welcome to iCOMPEL Digital Signage

Playlist

A Playlist is a sequence of Media items that you have chosen for display in a Zone. Each Zone has its own Playlist,

which runs continuously, and is independent of all the other Playlists. If you wish, you can synchronize the display between

two Playlists, so that for example, a scrolling text message starts to play at the same time as a related promotional video.

More about Playlists...

Media items (digital content)

You can use your iCOMPEL to display a wide range of digital Media items. These include fixed and scrolling text, movies,

images, Flash animations, Web pages, and RSS feeds. To display a media item, you need to add it to the Playlist for a

Zone. If your digital signage uses sound, you need to know that Audio items are treated differently, as they are added to the

Soundtrack for the Layout, and not to the Playlist for a Zone. More about Media items...

Ad hoc items

You can allow other people to make minor changes to some parts of your digital signage, by creating special Ad hoc items

and allowing limited access to special pages where those items appear. For example, in a digital signage for a hotel lobby

you can define an Ad hoc text area for Meeting Room Details, and allow the hotel's receptionist access to this area only so

they can update the details every day. More about Ad hoc items...

Administrators and Ad hoc users

You are the Administrator of an iCOMPEL if you have access to the entire iCOMPEL system and can create Layouts and

Schedules and arrange items in Playlists. If you only have access to a specific page which allows you to alter only a

limited number of specific items, you are an Ad hoc User.

iCOMPEL Channels

You can set up multiple iCOMPEL players to display the same Layouts in a Channel. A Channel has one Publisher

iCOMPEL, where Layouts are designed, and one or more Subscriber iCOMPEL players which simply display the Layouts

from the Publisher. The Schedule for the Publisher iCOMPEL is then the Schedule for all the iCOMPEL that subscribe to

the Channel. You can even configure a number of Channels into a Digital Signage Network.

The iCOMPEL in a Channel can be in different areas of one site (for example a shopping mall) or on different sites (for

example at different branches of a chain of shops). You can give Ad hoc user access to individuals at different sites so they

can make limited changes to the display at their location only. More about Digital Signage networks...

1.2 Logging on

To log on to the iCOMPEL, follow these steps.

1. Ensure that the iCOMPEL is connected to the network. Ask your Network Administrator for advice if unsure.

2. Open a web-browser (such as Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer) in a computer that is also connected to the

network.

3. In the Address bar of the web-browser, type in the name or the IP address of the iCOMPEL and press the Enter key. If

you do not know the IP address of the iCOMPEL, restart the iCOMPEL and watch the Screen, as the IP address is

displayed during start-up.

4. When prompted, enter your username and password. The factory-set default values are remote and 9999.

5. If the username and password are correct, you should now see the iCOMPEL home page in your browser. You are now

connected to the iCOMPEL.

6. Add a bookmark for the iCOMPEL home page in your browser for easy retrieval in future.

For more help, see Getting connected .

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