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Movie Theater Auditorium Signage

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Matthew Latten
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Hi there! We've got a few dozen Brightsigns running our Box Office and Concession signage throughout a few theaters, but today we were hoping someone could help us getting a few players set up as the Auditorium signs. This theater has five auditoriums, so we have five XD1030's. The problem we are running into is that in order for each auditorium sign to display a poster graphic, the movie title, and the auditorium number, we'd need to have 5 different playlists for each movie we run (since we would have to make a playlist with "Theater 2" which couldn't be sent to Theater 5).

Is there a way to give each player a static background (which would allow us to graphically identify each auditorium) so that a playlist we make would just include the poster image and some text, which could then be sent to any auditorium's sign?

 

Thanks in advance! Matt

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    JRB Technical

    Yes, do a full size Background image zone on the bottom, and then a smaller video zone on top.

    In the layout editor for a standard 1 zone layout, delete the Video and Images zone so you have no zones, then add the Background Zone, then add the Images and Video Zone on top of it. The zones can overlap, but you want the video and images zone smaller so the Background zone shows though.

    Hope this helps!

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    Matthew Latten

    Thanks for the comment! The issue though is that if the background image says "Theater 2" we would still need to make five presentations; one for each auditorium. Is there a way to add some sort of logic key so that when a presentation is sent to Theater 1, it shows the background image that says "Theater 1?"

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    JRB Technical

    There are many different ways to do this.  I am not into BrightSign scripting, but it may be possible to do something that way, I can't say.

    This is similar to what I do for meeting room schedules for events, but I treat each player separately, each with it's own presentation. I then use a Raspberry Pi 3 with Apache on it, and some custom scripts to generate Media RSS files based on the schedules. Each player polls the server every minute for it's Media RSS feed, and downloads and displays the content as an overlay over the background image.

    But not everyone is savvy with the scripting and server parts for Media RSS feeds.

    If it were me, I would just do 5 presentations, one for each theater, and schedule each one separately.

    Maybe someone else will give some hints as to a way to do it the way you are looking for.

    You have to figure out what works best for you, no way is wrong, as long as it looks the way you want it to look.

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