The Android Player is the CM Player equivalent application designed for a run on Android devices, like Mini PC, tablets or mobile phones. The Android Player has essentially the same functionality as the CM Player, with some limitations:

• No Flash support, Android Player should skip flash files.

• Watermark & Player status not supported.

• Play logs and post back to Neptune (only sequential log is supported)

• No Player Monitor.

• Only Single Screen support.

• Node server not supported.

• Proxy not supported.

• Player offline update.

• Time Synchronized playlist.

• Screen orientation

• Not implemented remote device management

• Not implemented triggering campaigns and media with barcode

If you followed the steps closely, and the diagnostics passed, you can now start the Player. You can do this by going to the main app screen of your device and clicking the CM Player icon.

The player will start and you will receive a message denoting that the download of files has started. After all of the media has been downloaded the player will start playing your campaigns.

This feature reboots the device every day between 2AM and 3AM (device time).

The player checks for reboot time every 30 minutes from the time he starts to play. When the time for rebooting comes (between 2AM and 3AM the next day), the player reboots. Reboots are made every day only once. That means the function gets the last reboot time (date part) and if it is equal to the current date, the player will not be rebooted. For example, if the player is rebooted manually or started on 3/15/2018 01:12, and the current time is 3/15/2018 02:12 the player will not be rebooted.

Note that for not rooted devices this function is disabled.

After configuration of an android player, start the player in order for CampaignManager Web to sync the data for the new device. After few seconds, the new device is visible, at first at a domains level Devices list view, then on project level Devices list view for appropriate projects.

When the user selects a device row, two panels correspond to player’s data: The Details view with unique information about the selected device, and the left panel where the tasks and player activities are placed.

The details view is the panel placed above the device’s list view and replaces the pie and the location map when the user selects a device.

Under the Details view we have information about the name, the status, when the player was last online (Last Seen), subscribed channels, gateway IP, screen status, client version, alert, location and time zone.

All system related information of the Android CM Player device is provided when Android CM Player is selected. Android CM Player collects this information and sends them to the CM Service so that user can monitor the device status remotely from Campaign Manager.

All system information is described in the following table.

Android device’s right panel has two main sections: Tasks and Player activity. Below those sections is the map with the pin that points to the player’s physical location.

Because the Remote device management feature is not implemented for Android device the commands below are disabled all the time.

In the player activity, we can see the channels associated with the Android CM Player. Under currently playing we can see which campaigns are published to the Android CM Player and which campaigns are downloading or pulling from the Android CM Player.

Also, we can see which media is in the campaigns and we can preview it by clicking on its name.

The context menu contains all the options for the specific type of entity. The context menu for devices is located on the left side and replaces the site’s navigational menu. You can also approach Device’s context menu by right click on the list view area.

Below there is an explanation for all the context menu items:

Export device list

Clicking on this option will create a CSV file of all devices that are currently in the list view with all the information about them.

Change The Channel

This option is enabled only for single selected device row, and will redirect the user to device’s Channel Settings.

Pause Download

When this option is set, the player does not download new content: You can publish new content or pull published campaigns, tickers or commands, but the player will not receive requests. After this option is disabled by clicking on the Resume Downloading, the player will receive all the changes.

Player Log Report

User can approach the Neptune Player Report by clicking on this option only if the service is linked with Neptune service. Also if you want Neptune to make reports, you have to go to the domain’s Control Panel and check Record what has been played in play log.

Rename

We can use this option to change the name of the selected player.

Delete

If some player is inactive for a long time, and we want to remove it from the Devices list view, we can delete it by selecting its row first. More than one device can be deleted at once.

Refine Location

When no device row is selected in Devices page, on the panel above the list view is displayed the devices status pie and the map with location pointers of all devices in the list.

When you select one device, the details view for this device replaces the all devices view. Among the devices, information is shown the physical location of the device. The physical location is not precise all the time and can point a nearby location of your actual. If you like to change the location and where the pinpoints on the map, you can press on Refine Location.

You can drag and drop the pin in a wanted location. Also, you can change the description of the location in the field above. This field also will offer suggestions of existing location while typing. If the user chooses to go by suggestion, the pointer will automatically change to a new location. Relocate button will save the changes, and Reset to default will reset to a predefined location.

Reboot device

This option will restart selected player’s device.

Besides the Android configurational file, the user can set settings for the Android player in the device’s configurational page in CampaignManager Web.

This page differs from the configurational file with the fact that the player must play when the user makes changes in this page.

This page can be opened with a double-click on a specific Android device’s row.

Under Player Details, are listed three sections: Summary, Player Activity and Status information.

This section gives you information about player’s status, number of attached display devices, how many of available devices are configured to run the CM Player and the channels used in the configuration.

In the Player Activity subsection, we have information about the channel that the player is configured with. There is also information about which campaigns are Currently Playing and how much they have been downloaded.

And below the Currently Playing there is the Live Playlist section which is displaying the files in a campaign. These files can be also previewed by clicking on them and their content will be displayed in the Preview box.

Status Information

In the Status information subsection, there is information about further details of the machine that is running the player.

In the top of the channel settings is placed the section for selecting the channel.

Here we can set the time (in seconds) that the player checks back (contacts) the CM service.

The General Settings section in the Android Player configuration is made of five subsections.

The Network Settings is made of the Connection Settings and the Network interface section. Under the Connection Settings, we can set the settings if we are using Node Server, Proxy Server or enable external trigger events.

The settings for keeping the unused media files can be set in the CampaignManager Web under domain settings, but we can override this setting here and set the time we want to keep the media files if they are not used in a campaign.