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  • For webpage links add onscreen keyboard (for kiosk kind of apps)

    You can enable onscreen keyboard using any one of the chromium extensions from chrome store, for e.g.   1. From the ssh terminal issue the following command chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/home/p...

  • Gapless video play does not work

    This feature uses "mpv" player along with hardware enabled ffmpeg. To make sure the libraries are upto-date, from terminal or ssh update the libraries and firmware as follows  Also please note that...

  • New version of socket.io is not working with open-source server address

    Player version 2.2.1 onwards used new socket.io (2+ version) by default and if does not work falls back to 0.9.x version.  New version needs http:// prefix to the server name for new version to wor...

  • Player crash or staying in welcome screen with 2.2.x image

    There are rare occasions piSignage player may keep carshing and stay in welcome screen if there is a network issue, we will correct the same in next release.    Till then you could issue the follow...

  • Player specific content in links, ticker and text message

    In links, text messages and ticker text certain strings are replaced by actual values of the player. This will help fetch and show content specific to the player.   For e.g. https://site.com/conten...

  • High temperature icon appears on screen

    The high temperature icon appears when the CPU is hot, few typical causes are Upgrade to 2.2.1 or higher versions. Newer versions of chromium browsers (1.9.9 image onwards) are treating "marquee" ...

  • 2.2.0 upgrade failing

    Image corrected as on 12/10/2018  Those of the players which had firewalls (with 80 & 443 open), upgrade to 2.2.0 was not going through. We have uploaded the corrected image and now the same should...

  • Issue with 2.1.0 image

    The original 2.1.0 (not the modified image) had issues in terms of - player restart not working, shows SD card terminal messages - the screen is blank upon boot and takes 3-5 minutes for the conten...

  • Disable mouse and keyboard inputs for player from server

    If you would like to disable USB keyboard for the player, please issue the following command from the piShell against the player name.   echo 'SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", DRIVERS=="usbhid", ACTION=="add", A...

  • Web links showing translate popup - how to hide?

    Chromium has removed --translate flag ( https://superuser.com/questions/1237561/disable-chromes-page-translation-on-the-commandline). There are two workarounds till the new fix from chromium appear...