MFLY-X MFLY-X01 MFLY-X03 MFLY-X01RE MediaFlyer Express Get your company‘s message out less expensively BLACK BOX than with traditional print or broadcast advertising. Its easy deployment and “no learning curve” Web-managed interface allows your digital signage to be up and running in no time at all. ® Features pre-defined layouts, enables you to easily build your own layouts, offers social media integration, is simple for anyone to connect, and can be managed via the Web.
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NOM Statement Instrucciones de Seguridad (Normas Oficiales Mexicanas Electrical Safety Statement) 1. Todas las instrucciones de seguridad y operación deberán ser leídas antes de que el aparato eléctrico sea operado. 2. Las instrucciones de seguridad y operación deberán ser guardadas para referencia futura. 3. Todas las advertencias en el aparato eléctrico y en sus instrucciones de operación deben ser respetadas. 4. Todas las instrucciones de operación y uso deben ser seguidas. 5.
Table of Contents Table of Contents 1. Specifications ................................................................................................................................................................................6 2. Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................7 2.1 Introduction......................................................................
Chapter 1: Specifications 1. Specifications Agency Compliance — CE, CB, FCC, UL®, CCC, 8SMI, Gost, VCCI, PSE Audio — Analog or HDMI using Realtek® ALC888S CPU — Intel Atom® 330, dual-core, 1.6 GHz FSB 533 HDD — 160 GB Network — 10/100/1000 Mbps RAM — 1 GB Video — nVidia® MCP7A-ION Wi-Fi — 802.11 b/g User Controls — (1) Power button; (1) Suspend button Connectors — Video: (1) HDMI female, (1) DVI-I female; Audio: (1) HDMI female, (2) 3.
Chapter 2: Overview 2. Overview 2.1 Introduction The MediaFlyer Express is a network appliance that helps you make the most of your digital signage applications. It’s easy to deploy and use. It features predefined layouts, enables you to build your own layouts, offers social media integration, is simple for consumers to connect, and can be managed via the Web. 2.2 What’s Included Your package should include the following items.
Chapter 2: Overview 2.3.2 Back Panel Figure 2-2 shows the back panel of the MediaFlyer Express. Table 2-2 describes its components. 8 1 2 3 4 5 9 6 7 Figure 2-2. Back panel. Table 2-2. Back-panel components.
Chapter 3: Hardware Installation 3. Hardware Installation 1. Plug in the MediaFlyer Express components. 2. Connect the components to your displays. 3. Connect the components to the network. HDMI or DVI to input mediaflyer. blackbox.com Network cable Media Flyer unit using VESA mount (MFLY-X) Power cable Create signage here Figure 3-1. Hardware installation. MFLY-X 724-746-5500 | blackbox.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started 4. Software: Getting Started Once you’ve connected the hardware, you are ready to log into the software. Using a computer with an Internet connection, go to: mediaflyer.blackbox.com That’s where you’ll go to log in and manage your MediaFlyer Express system. You’ll use this a lot, so you might want to bookmark it. NOTE: There’s no “www” there, it’s not the same place as the main Black Box Web site.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started 4.2 Content Formats Supported The goal of MFLY-X is to make it easy to get your content onto your screens. You may have software that you already use to create content. MFLY-X can display PowerPoint® presentations, PDF documents, Web pages, movies, photos, and RSS feeds, to name just a few. You may decide that you want to reformat content for use on your MFLY-X screen, but you can get started using the tools you already know.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started 4.3 The MFLY-X User Interface Once you’ve logged into MFLY-X, you’ll see a screen similar to this: Figure 4-1. Opening screen. At the top you see the overall section headings: Basics, Tagging, Management, etc. • Basics describes how to add content, organize and schedule it, and put it on your displays. You’ll spend most of your time here. • Tagging lets you add keyword tags to your content and your displays so you can use them later.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started 4.4 Content Management in MFLY-X This section describes how to tell MFLY-X about your content and arrange it into playlists. The User Interface Overview Figure 4-2. User interface screen. This is the content management pane of the MFLY-X Web site interface. Here you can add and organize your content. On the left is the Library column, which shows a list of your Playlists.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started • Create a smart playlist—This is a playlist that is created and updated automatically based on certain rules. You could create one that contained all sources with the word “News” in their name, for example. • Other Web services—You can access content already stored on common Web services such as Flickr® and YouTube®. Over time, we plan to integrate with many other services this way. You can try it now.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started To edit the playlist’s order and the duration of entries, select the playlist in the Library column so you can see all the entries in it, as shown in Figure 4-3. In this view, you can drag items around to change their order of playback, and you can edit the duration of items using either the “EDIT” button or double-clicking on the entry.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started 4.6 Scheduling Screen Changes You can schedule assignments of content to screens so that they happen automatically on particular days or at certain times of day. Once you’ve created a schedule, you can assign it to a screen in just the same way as a playlist. To do this, you select the Scheduling screen. See Figure 4-5. Figure 4-5. Scheduling screen. Click the “ADD” button in the bottom right to create a schedule, and follow the links to give your schedule a name.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started Figure 4-6. Calendar view of week. You can use the “ADD” button, or click and drag out a time during a day, and a window will appear that enables you to specify the start and end times, the source to be displayed during that period (see Figure 4-7), and whether you want the assignment to happen just on that one day, or whether it should repeat periodically, for example, every day, or once a week. MFLY-X 724-746-5500 | blackbox.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started Figure 4-7. Select source screen. When you’ve finished creating your schedule, you can click one of the top-level section tabs to return to the main control panes. The schedule will appear on your Assignment screen and you can drag and drop it onto the screens where it‘s needed, just like any conventional source or playlist. During periods when nothing is specified in the schedule, the screen will blank, and, if your display permits it, will go into standby mode.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started 4.7 Splitting the Screen with Layouts Layouts enable you to put two or more items of content on a screen at once. For example, you can use most of the screen to show a slideshow, while having a news ticker scroll across the top or the bottom. To set up a layout, click “Basics” and then “Layout.” Click the “Add” button to start the process. See Figure 4-8. Figure 4-8. Layouts. Give your layout a name and then choose how you want to split the screen. See Figure 4-9.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started Figure 4-9. Split screen. MFLY-X offers the following options for splitting your display screen: Figure 4-10. Display screen splitting options. Page 20 724-746-5500 | blackbox.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started Table 4-2. Options for splitting a display screen.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started The MFLY-X also has content scaling options. For example, suppose you have a high-resolution version of your company logo that exactly fills your display. You decide to use that in the main part of one of the “simple ticker” layouts. Because the display allocates some of the pixels to a ticker, the logo no longer fills the screen completely (and its aspect ratio is different, too).
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started Table 4-3. Edit smart playlists. Action Description Only content within the chosen playlist will be output by the smart playlist. Start with: Choose ”All sources” or one of your playlists. NOTE: You can start from one of your existing smart playlists. This gives you the ability to combine groups of filter conditions into more complex queries (if you need to).
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started You might want your smart playlist to behave the same for every display—if so, just choose filtering choices that relate only to the content. Then, only properties of the content are considered when deciding whether it gets output. Tagging your displays and organizing them into sites can seem complicated, but it will save effort if you have a large number of displays. 4.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started Select a backdrop from the menu on the right, and then use the “Add Fixed Text” and “Add Editable Text” buttons to place text into the central editing pane. See Figure 4-13. Figure 4-13. Edit Template screen. Table 4-5. Buttons on the Edit Template screen. Button Description Save Saves any changes to the template back to MFLY-X. Save and Preview Save any changes to the template back to MFLY-X, then shows an image preview of how the slide might look on your screen.
Chapter 4: Software: Getting Started A note about screen resolutions The screen size selector at the bottom right is intended to enable you to design a template with a screen size in mind. When using normal software to create slides, the target screen is usually your own screen or a projector driven by your own PC. When using MFLY-X, the situation is different: The screen isn’t connected to your computer.
Chapter 5: Hardware Management 5. Hardware Management The Hardware Management pane (Management > Hardware) enables you to see the status of your MFLY-X hardware and manage how it is distributed across your organization. Managing your sites Your organizations can have multiple sites. They might be offices in different cities or different faculties in a university. Each site will typically have its own local-area network, with several MFLY-X connected screens and one or more MediaFlyer Express boxes.
Chapter 6: User Permissions 6. User Permissions MFLY-X uses a very simple hierarchy. By default, everyone in an organization has permission to do anything, but in some situations this is not ideal. To make it simple to manage, we defined some permission levels that you can assign to users. Table 6-1 shows the permission levels available, with the most privileged at the top. Table 6-1. User permission levels.
Appendix: Troubleshooting: Frequently-Asked Questions Appendix: Troubleshooting: Frequently Asked Questions Q. What sort of screens can I use with Media Flyer? You can use anything with a DVI, HDMI or, through the use of adapters, VGA connection, including computer monitors, projectors, plasmas, and LCDs. The maximum resolution supported is 1920 x 1200 at 60 Hz and 24-bit color. Q.
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