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Display Monkey digital signage solution
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Scheduling canvas changes? #86

Open cwhitsbm opened 5 years ago

cwhitsbm commented 5 years ago

Is there any way to have the display switch between multiple canvases? Or switch from one canvas to another at a specified time?

psined1 commented 5 years ago

Unfortunately, not thru DMM in the current design of DM. The best thing you can do is create a separate process, e.g. SQL Server Agent job, to toggle monitor canvas by updating the table directly. When the display record gets updated, it will receive new version, which will trigger a refresh of the monitor.

Keep in mind, however, that you loose smooth transitions when the monitor will refresh itself, as this is meant for admin control rather than routine presentation script.

psined1 commented 5 years ago

Another potential solution might be to use a shared canvas between multiple monitors. Frames can be location-specific. This is useful when you have several monitors thru out the building, all the same LCD size, with one or two panels scrolling content unique for specific monitor/location, while the rest of the panels showing the same thing. You can even mix location-specific frames with public frames in the same panel.

Hope this helps.