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200 plus wayfinding locations each with unique URL

Allen H. Porter

April 18, 2016 14:25

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We are deploying 200 plus players for wayfinding.  Each will display a unique map and legend.  This map and legend will be a URL that is unique to all 200 plus locations.

 

Question 1:  If the network to a particular player fails I would like the player to default to a JPG with the customer's logo on it.  How do I make a player display "default" content when the network ios down?

 

Question 2:  Do I really have to make 200 plus groups in BA with one player in each group?  How else to point to over 200 unique URLs?

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  Lyndon April 18, 2016 15:41

   

  You could use a plugin to check the network, and then send a plugin message when the network is lost. But, what do you define as a lost of network? Do you want the unit to try and post to a url or get a url and if it fails that qualifies as the network being down? We have an internet test we can run via plugin, but it's possible for the internet to be fine but your wayfinder site would be unrechable.

   

  Do you have control over the url itself?  If you do you could put the serial # of the unit in the url. ON the unit, you can create a variable "serial" that you set to the serial number of the unit. There's a predefined serial nunber systen variable.  You can then create a project for the player that points to a url like this:

   

  http://www.mywayfinder.com/$$serial$$/restofurlhere

  or 

  http://www.mywayfinder.com/restofurl/$$serial$$

   

  Another way you could do it is create a feed on your brightsign network account where the title is the serial # of the unit, and the description is the unique part of the url. A plugin could then download the feed, lookup the unit serial # in the feed, and update a local variable with that unique part of the url. 

   

  Then, you can use the example above to point the unit to a url + the value from the plugin.