About digital signage

Digital signage allows you to bring content to a meeting room with the ClickShare Base Unit, while nobody is using it to share their meetings or presentations. The content can be shown as static or dynamic wallpaper or video, without sound. You can consume content from any Signage Vendor that exposes it via a Web URL. You can also display company news, tips and tricks or other internal information, from a URL in your company network.

Guidelines and limitations

There are a few limitations and guidelines concerning proper usage. These are the following:

• ClickShare Base Unit must run software 2.16 or newer
• The feature cannot run on CS or CSE units

• The feature can run on C-5, C-10, CX-20, CX-30 in the following limited capacity

  • Use mostly static pages
  • Limit transition effects
  • Limit the playlist
  • If more complex content is desired, test it thoroughly before deploying it on all units.
• On CX-50 (both Gen 1 and Gen 2) more complex and dynamic content is allowed, with more transition effects.

Tip: It is always recommended to thoroughly test the content during an extended period before deploying it to operational systems.

For more detailed technical specifications and limitations concerning the content, as well as a list of known technical issues, please consult the Barco support web page for Digital Signage.

About monitoring system health

The ClickShare software now also includes a mechanism to monitor the internal memory used by the signage application. To keep the system healthy for presentation and conferencing, it will restart the Signage application when the application uses too much memory (e.g. when complex content is used, or when the content web application doesn’t properly clear memory).

About usage with multiple screens

When multiple screens are connected to the Base Unit device, Digital Signage will only be shown on the primary display (display 1).

How to enable the digital signage

1. In XMS Cloud, navigate to the Marketplace >> Digital Signage.

2. Choose the desired Digital signage plug-in by clicking on the View Details button.

   

   

   Note: Barco provides several options for Digital Signage in its marketplace. This procedure will use the Barco-provided plug-in Barco Digital Signage. The workflow for the other plug-ins will work in a similar way.

3. In the chosen plug-in, click Add to XMS.

   

   The Digital Signage page of the chosen plug-in will be added to the Marketplace menu.

   Similarly the Digital Signage page will be added to the Manage Base Unit window, on the Configuration tab.

   

4. On the Digital Signage page, you can choose the desired Digital Signage method:

   • The Digital Signage method provided by the developer of the app (e.g. Barco Digital Signage in the Barco Digital Signage plug-in).
   • A custom Digital Signage, via a provided URL.
   • None