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  • 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...

  • Disabling piPlayer wifi access point from shell

    If you do not want piSignage player wifi access point and needs to disable the same without wifi configuration,  you could execute the following shell commands and reboot   sudo systemctl disable h...

  • pi 3b+ freeze or stop working after few hours

    Few users have reported that Pi 3B+ based piSignage stops working or shows black screen after 10-12 hours of operation.  There is a thread in Raspberry Pi forum which talks of Pi 3b+ lockups https:...

  • Controlling TV on/off through rs232 port

    piSignage calls TVon.py and TVoff.py scripts whenever TV ON and TV OFF events happen. These scripts need to be in /home/pi directory of pi player.      

  • How to design a custom template

    You can design a custom layout if the existing layouts do not meet your needs. Goto https://pisignage.com/templates and add a new custom template. It will open template design screen as shown in th...

  • Unable to upgrade player software

    In some cases, player software may not get upgraded, here are few causes - Player needs to goto Internet for npm and package updates in addition to pisignage.com to get the software package, make s...