The device drawer: managing one screen

Open Info on a linked display to control it — info, settings, firmware, playlists, previews, logs and health.

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Clicking Info on a linked display opens the full-screen device drawer — the control centre for one screen. Its title shows a status dot, the display name and an online / offline / checking badge.

Device drawer, Info tab

The action bar offers Unlink Display (detaches the device, keeps the record) and — on newer players — Restart Display, Clear Cache and Preview. A Save / Cancel footer commits setting changes. Which tabs and buttons appear depends on the player's version, so older devices show fewer.

Info

Read-only device facts: status, uptime, device type, app version, patch version, OS and OS version, whether an Android device is rooted, display resolution and pixel ratio, cache size, free storage and memory, and the IP address.

Settings

Device drawer, Settings tab
  • Settings password (on-device menu PIN), Orientation (Landscape / Landscape flipped / Portrait / Portrait flipped), Video quality (Low / High).
  • Video player, and a renderer (Hardware / Software) when the alternative player is chosen.
  • Cache level (Precache & display / Precache & hide / Auto) and Log level (Error / Debug) on newer players.
  • Auto-restart toggle plus a restart time.
  • Monitoring interval: Off / 5 min / 10 min / 15 min / 30 min / 1 hour.

Press Save to push settings to the device.

Firmware

Per-device update control: a Release channel and a Patch channel (each Stable / Beta / Testing) with a Force update button, plus update-agent status — whether the agent is installed, last ping, version codes, connection state and the last successful or failed update.

Playlists

The playlists assigned to this display, each with edit (opens the playlist editor) and remove.

Preview

A Get preview button requests a fresh screenshot and shows it.

Logs

A refreshable table of device log entries: timestamp, level, app version, message, error detail, hardware type and IP.

Command

On the newest players, a Command tab lets you type a command and Run it on the device.

Online stats & monitoring

Online stats shows an online/offline history (1, 2 or 3 days or a week) with a chart/table toggle. When monitoring is enabled, Monitoring data charts CPU temperature and usage, RAM, internet and local-network speed, battery and uptime — each pick-able and chart/table toggleable.