Specifications
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Channels and Signage Networks
The USB Memory stick's /channel
folder
The channel is being published via a USB Memory Stick
Remote Web site or FTP server.
The channel is being published via an external server or an iCOMPEL
Channel Subscription URL
If your channel content server is not a USB device, then this option needs to be filled in to tell the subscriber where to find
the channel. What you put in here depends on where the content is being published:
Where Published
Channel Subscription URL format
The Channel is published on an
iCOMPEL running Version 9, 8, 7, or
Version 6 software:
The required URL is of the form:
http://<publisher>/data/channel/<channel_number>
Where <publisher> is the host name or IP address of the iCOMPEL to
subscribe to and <channel_number> is the channel number. You can find out
the channel number for a given publisher by visiting it publishing configuration
page and looking at the option named Channel Server on the page.
You can also specify the protocol for connecting to the iCOMPEL publisher.
Allowed protocols are HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.
FTP urls differ slightly and are of the form:
ftp://<publisher>/channel/<channel_number>
Example subscription URLs:
https://192.168.1.54/data/channel/1
http://iCOMPEL9038/data/channel/2
ftp://iCOMPEL9038/channel/2
ftp://192.168.1.54/channel/5
If the Channel has been published on an
FTP site
If you wish your channel to be retrieved via FTP, then you can use the same
URL as used to publish the channel on the publishing iCOMPEL.
Your Channel Content Server might also be configured to serve the uploaded
channel files via HTTP or HTTPS. The particular URL you would use depends
on the setup of the server and the folder it was serving up.
Authentication
If required, enter the username and password for the Channel Server. If this is a Publisher iCOMPEL, you must provide a
valid administrator name and password.
Proxy
If required, select a proxy server for accessing the Internet.
Error Retry Interval
Set the time interval for retrying a Channel update if an update is incomplete or interrupted.
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