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Change resolution without reauthoring project?

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Tabor xyz
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Hello,

I have a client in South Africa and I am in NY.  The project we authored for him was at 1920x1080x60p and it is not working on his screen.

Is there a way to change the resolution without reauthoring the whole project and sending a 14gb download link to him.

Maybe just a script or line of code to add to the autorun.brs?


Thanks!

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    Roni Starc

    You can open the .bpf file (presentation) file with a text editor (like notepad) and change the value inside the <videomode></videomode> tag and then re-save it. If you use Notepad (Windows), make sure you input the name in quotes (otherwise Notepad will save it as a .txt file). So if your filename is presentation.bpf, save it as "presentation.bpf".

    Test it to see if it is still working correctly. Then you send just this file to the client and tell them to put it where the original is. Should be fine (of course they should first make a backup of the original file).

    To see which mode they need, they can user the "Video mode test" tool on the diagnostic webserver of the used Brightsign.

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    Tabor xyz

    Thanks for your response.  

    This would require them to be using bright author right?  Because I am not seeing a .bpf in the files exported to the SD card.

    Is there a way to do this by modifying the autorun.brs?

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    Roni Starc

    The autorun just excutes what is in the config files, so there is no need to modify the autorun, just the config files.

    There are ways to change settings stored on the SD card, in the pool. All you need to look at is on the SD card using a text editor. I am sorry, but can't be more specific because I don't want to be held responsible in the case something goes wrong.

    There is another option, that the user uses the diagnostics web page (if it is enabled in the presentation) to change the video mode. I don't know if the video mode in the presentation would re-change it at runtime. There is also a possibility to change the video mode over the serial debugging interface.

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    Romeo

    Hi,

    This is a good recipe to break things up if you make a small mistake whilst editing the autorun.brs file. Do this at you own risk!!! That said it can be done :-)

    in the autorun.brs file  find the below line:

    Sign.videoMode$ = BrightAuthor.meta.videoMode.GetText(), comment it out by adding an apostrophe at the front of it like the below example:

    'Sign.videoMode$ = BrightAuthor.meta.videoMode.GetText() and replace it with (or another SUPPORTED resolution of your choice)

    Sign.videoMode$ = "1920x1080x60p"

    You should make sure that the resolution you're applying is supported for the video connector that you've selected. You can revert back  to the old settings by uncommenting the original line and deleting the new one.

     

     

     

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    Tabor xyz

    Thank you!

     

    Is it possible to do the same with wifi ssid and password?

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