PiShell Commands for Android and Amazon Signage Stick Players

piSignage for Android is available at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pisignage.player2&hl=en-IN. The same player app runs on the Amazon Signage Stick, and the shell commands below work on both.

Your Android or Amazon Signage Stick player must be online to receive shell commands.

In the classic interface

To issue shell commands from the server

• Your Android Player should be online
• From the Players tab, open the piShell command screen by pressing >_ icon as shown
• You can issue certain shell commands from the prompt. Enter help to list the commands supported by the player.

1) Player Logs: Issue the following command to get the last 200 player logs that could be helpful to debug issues.

tail -200

2) Restart piSignage Player 2.0 Android application: In order to restart the app, you can issue any of the following commands

restart
reboot
reload

3) Stop piSignage Player 2.0 Android application: You can issue any of the following commands to stop the piSignage app

stop
shutdown

4) Reset your piSignage application: In case you need to clear the media files and restart your piSignage application you can issue the following command

reset

5) View Assets: View the assets in the media directory by entering the following command

ls media                                                                              

In the new interface

• Open Screens and press the eye (View Details) button on the player's row.
  
• In the Screen Details panel, open the Terminal tab. Type a command in the box at the bottom and press Enter or Execute. Show Logs and Reboot are also available as buttons.
  
• Type help to get the list of shell commands supported by the player. This is the complete list for the player version installed, so check it first if a command in this article does not respond.

help

Commands that mention EMA (reboot, update, completereset) use Amazon's device management service and apply to the Amazon Signage Stick.