X Post V10

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About CAYIN
Copyright Notice
Trademark Notice
Disclaimers
1. System Environment
2. Software Installation
3. General Operation
- 3-1 Remote Management - Login
- 3-2 Introduction of User Interface
4. System Configuration
5. meetingPost Module
6. wayfinderPost Module
7. lobbyPost Module

CAYIN Technology Co., Ltd.

8F, No. 577, Linsen N. Rd. Taipei City 104, Taiwan

TEL: +886-2-25951005 FAX: +886-2-25951050

About CAYIN

CAYIN Technology is established by a group of professionals specializing in development, researches,

engineering, and international sales and marketing. CAYIN devotes itself to providing complete digital

signage solutions in various applications, such as transportation, education, retail, hospitality, corporation,

and financial and public institutions. In order to best facilitate the deployment of CAYIN products, we

also provide tailored hardware and software services to satisfy customers’ demands for almost limitless

applications.

All the contents in this manual are the intellectual property of CAYIN Technology Co., Ltd (“CAYIN”). No

part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, shall be reproduced, transferred,

distributed, stored in any form, or translated into any language without the prior written permission of CAYIN.

Specications and information in this manual are subject to change at any time without obligation to notify

any person of such revision or changes.

Trademark Notice

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holders.

Disclaimers

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INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS,

LOSS OF USE OR DATA, AND THE LIKE), EVEN IF CAYIN HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY

OF SUCH DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY DEFECT OR ERROR IN THIS MANUAL OR PRODUCT.

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Table of Contents

About CAYIN ..........................................................................................................................2

Copyright Notice ...................................................................................................................2

Trademark Notice ................................................................................................................. 2

Disclaimers ........................................................................................................................... 2

1. System Environment .........................................................................................................6

1-1 System Structure ................................................................................................... 6

1-2 System Requirements ............................................................................................ 7

1-3 Software Components ...........................................................................................7

2. Software Installation ......................................................................................................... 8

2-1 Install xPost ............................................................................................................8

2-2 Activate xPost ...................................................................................................... 11

2-3 Congure Firewall of xPost Server ...................................................................... 14

3. General Operation ........................................................................................................... 16

3-1 Remote Management - Login .............................................................................. 16

3-2 Introduction of User Interface .............................................................................. 17

3-2-1 Select a User Interface Language .................................................................... 17

3-2-2 Switch between Modules .................................................................................. 18

3-2-3 Change Password ............................................................................................. 18

4. System Conguration ..................................................................................................... 19

4-1 Add/Edit Account ................................................................................................. 19

4-2 Software License Management ........................................................................... 21

4-3 System Info .......................................................................................................... 21

5. meetingPost Module .......................................................................................................22

5-1 Login meetingPost ...............................................................................................22

5-2 Set Up a Meeting Room Display .........................................................................23

5-2-1 Add a Meeting Room ......................................................................................... 23

5-2-2 Apply a Template .............................................................................................. 24

5-2-3 Upload a Template ........................................................................................... 25

5-3 Modify Template (Template Settings) ..................................................................26

5-4 Connect meetingPost to SMP Player .................................................................. 29

5-5 Arrange Meetings (Events) ................................................................................. 32

6. waynderPost Module .....................................................................................................36

6-1 Login waynderPost ............................................................................................36

6-2 Set Up a Waynding Display ............................................................................... 37

6-2-1 Add a Display .................................................................................................... 37

6-2-2 Apply a Template .............................................................................................. 38

6-2-3 Upload a Template ........................................................................................... 39

6-3 Modify Template (Template Settings) .................................................................. 40

6-4 Connect waynderPost to SMP Player ...............................................................43

6-5 Enter waynderPost Data ....................................................................................45

6-5-1 Enter waynder Data Manually ......................................................................... 45

6-5-2 Retrieve Data from meetingPost ....................................................................... 48

7. lobbyPost Module ............................................................................................................ 51

7-1 Login lobbyPost .................................................................................................... 51

7-2 Set Up a Lobby Display........................................................................................ 52

7-2-1 Add a Display ..................................................................................................... 52

7-2-2 Apply a Template .............................................................................................. 53

7-2-3 Upload a Template ........................................................................................... 54

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7-3 Modify Template (Template Settings) ..................................................................55

7-4 Connect lobbyPost to SMP Player .......................................................................59

7-5 Enter lobbyPost Data ........................................................................................... 61

7-5-1 Room & Tariff .................................................................................................... 62

7-5-2 Currency Exchange ........................................................................................... 63

7-5-3 Weather ............................................................................................................. 65

7-5-4 General and Image Slideshow .......................................................................... 67

CAYIN xPost is the web-based application software, which offers a combination of essential tools to create

rich contents for digital signage in different vertical markets. It provides an easy-to-use platform for instant

data entry and further extends the usage of CAYIN SMP-WEB series players to meet users’ requirements of

frequent, daily maintenance.

CAYIN xPost contains the following three modules:

meetingPost:• It is the content editing software especially for meeting room management. It can display

information of a single meeting or the meeting list on the screen.

waynderPost:• It is content editing software especially for dynamic public sign and direction guiding.

lobbyPost:• It is content editing software especially for lobby screens which can display guest room

information, currency exchange, weather information, advertisements, commercial lms, and ticker.

1. System Environment

1-1 System Structure

* We strongly suggest that xPost should be used in stable network environment.

LAN

WAN*

Intranet

Admin PC

Adminstrator

SMP-WEB

series player

SMP-WEB

series player

SMP-WEB

series player

xPost Server

wayfinderPost

lobbyPost

meetingPost

Screen

- lobby

Screen

- meeting room

Screen

- corridor

CMS (optional)

distribute video files

Install xPost server

Connect xPost to SMP player

Configure xPost settings

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1-2 System Requirements

Operating System: Windows® XP or Windows® Vista

Display Resolution: 1024 x 768 or above is recommended

Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 compatible CPU or above

Memory: 1024 MB or above is recommended

Hard Disk: 200 MB for program and congurations, 10GB minimum for storing data.

Browser: Internet Explorer® 6 or above, Firefox® 1.5 or above

Compatible SMP player: SMP-WEBPLUS, SMP-WEB3, SMP-WEB3N

1-3 Software Components

MySQL ver 5.0.41-community-nt for Win32 on ia32 [MySQL Community Edition (GPL)]

Tomcat 4.0

xPost 1.0

IMPORTANT

xPost can only be used with CAYIN SMP-WEB series player. You cannot use it with other SMP player (e.g.

SMP-PRO) or normal PC system.

2. Software Installation

2-1 Install xPost

You can install xPost software on any Windows-based PC. Computers that install xPost software will act as

xPost servers.

Before installing xPost software on a PC, please make sure the PC meets the system requirements

beforehand, and then follow the instructions below:

1. Login as system administrator.

2. Double click on setup executable le (.exe).

3. [Windows vista only] When Vista User Account Control appears, click [Allow].

4. Click [Next] at the welcome page to continue the installation.

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5. Enter “User Name”, “Organization”, and click [Next].

6. Enable Launch Program, click [Next], and wait a few seconds until the program finishes the

installation.

7. Leave “Launch the program” checked. xPost service will start automatically after installation.

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2-2 Activate xPost

After installing xPost, you need to enter the software license number, so that xPost can be activated. By

doing so, please follow the steps below to connect to xPost’s Web Manager directly from the same PC (xPost

server).

1. Open a browser (IE or Firefox), and enter http://127.0.0.1 in the URL field to connect xPost Web

Manager. Login the system with the default administrator account.

Account: administrator

Password: admin

2. After login, you will see the main menu of xPost. Please click [System].

3. You can see 3 menu items on the top toolbar: Account, License, and System Info. Click [License];

then you can see the page of license management.

4. You need a “Serial Number” and “License Keys” to activate xPost. After purchasing xPost, you will get

Serial Number and Key(s) from CAYIN or CAYIN’s sales representative. If you plan to try xPost before

you buy, CAYIN provides a trial version for you to use xPost with 1 license for each module for 30

days.

5. Enter Serial Number and click [Activate].

6. After xPost Serial Number is activated, you can enter a valid key for each module, and click [Activate]

one by one.

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7. After valid keys are entered, you can see the license number is shown on respective sections as you

purchase.

8. Now, you nish activating xPost and are ready for using it.

2-3 Congure Firewall of xPost Server

To build the connection between xPost and SMP player and manage xPost from other PCs via network,

you need to turn off the rewall of xPost server, so that external devices and other PCs can connect to the

server.

The conguration of rewall is variable and depends on the rewall program you use.

We will try to explain the conguration of rewall with the case of Windows Vista as follows.

1. Click on “Control Panel” → “Security” → “Windows Firewall”

2. You can choose either “Turn Windows Firewall off” or “Allow a program through Windows Firewall”.

(1) Turn Windows Firewall off

The procedure will be completed right after you click “Turn Windows Firewall on or off”.

(2) Allow a program through Windows Firewall

If you click this item, you will see a pop-up window, “Windows Firewall Settings”, and need to congure

more settings.

i. Click [Add port…] and enter:

Name: HTTP Port Number: 80 Protocol: TCP

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ii. After completing the settings, please click [OK]. Then, you will see the item “HTTP” on the “Windows

Firewall Settings”.

iii. Conrm the port "HTTP" is checked; then click [OK].

3. General Operation

3-1 Remote Management - Login

After you turn on the firewall of xPost server, you can access xPost Web Manager by using a browser

remotely.

1. Open a browser and type the IP address of your xPost server.

2. Login the system with the default administrator account.

Account: administrator

Password: admin

3. After login, you will see the main menu of xPost: system, meetingPost, waynderPost, and lobbyPost.

Click one of the buttons and start to operate xPost.

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3-2 Introduction of User Interface

All main functions are placed on the toolbar. You can change settings and add data in the conguration area

of each function.

3-2-1 Select a User Interface Language

xPost supports “English” and “Traditional Chinese” web manager UI at the moment. You can switch between

these two languages on the right top side of the toolbar.

Toolbar

name Go to the

main menu

The sub-menu

of each module Change

password or

logout

Switch between

modules Select a UI

language

Configuration

area for each

function

NOTE

xPost is UTF-8 enabled application software. You can input data in many languages, not limited to English

and Chinese.

3-2-2 Switch between Modules

xPost contains four modules – System, meetingPost, wayfinderPost, and lobbyPost. You can switch

UI between these modules by clicking the correspondent button on the “Main menu” or selecting the right

program on the right top toolbar.

After you select a module, the sub-menu will display its correspondent functions.

3-2-3 Change Password

Users can change their own passwords by clicking the item “Change Password” on the toolbar. The

administrator will not keep the record of the user password in the system. Therefore, the administrator needs

to reset passwords in the “System” module (Account settings) if users forget passwords.

The sub-menu

of each module

Switch between

modules

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4. System Conguration

You can congure “Account” and manage “License” on the “System” module. Login xPost Web Manager and

click on “System”.

4-1 Add/Edit Account

Here you can add a new account (user) to manage xPost functions. You can also assign different access

rights to each account.

1. Login xPost and enter Web Manager

2. Click [SYSTEM] on the main menu, and [Account] on the toolbar; then you will see the page of

“Account settings”.

3. You can add several new users at a time by clicking the [Add] button on “Account settings” page.

4. Fill in “Account” names and “Note” (optional). After adding all accounts you need, please click [Apply].

5. After an account is added, you can click the [Edit] button for each new account to set the password

and access rights for that account.

6. Enter the password and configure the access right to manage each module for this account. By

default, the access right of a new account is disabled. You can enable it by selecting “Read only” or

“Read & Write”.

Disable:

• This account cannot access this function or enter web manager

Read-only:

• This account can only view this function, but cannot modify it or enter data.

Read & Write:

• This account is authorized the full access rights to view, modify, and enter data.

7. After the account is congured, click [Apply] to save and apply changes.

NOTE

An account name must be minimum 5 characters.

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4-2 Software License Management

Normally, you only need to operate License Management once after an xPost is installed. Once you need to

change the license number or re-install the xPost, you may need to congure License Management again.

Please refer to 2-2 Activate xPost for detailed operation.

4-3 System Info

You can check xPost version and License number in the System Info page.

5. meetingPost Module

CAYIN’s meetingPost is dedicated to the needs of meeting rooms and

banquet halls that require exible arrangement on the meeting schedule

as well as frequent update on information post. meetingPost is designed

to incorporate with CAYIN SMP-WEB series products. By integrating

its function of meeting management, meetingPost can be used to

substitute traditional paper signs, displaying real-time information of the

event on the monitor outside each meeting room/banquet hall.

meetingPost provides a content editing tool with easy operation workow comprising the following steps:

STEP 1: Login meetingPost

STEP 2: Set Up a Meeting Room Display

STEP 3: Modify Template Settings

STEP 4: Connect meetingPost to SMP Player

STEP 5: Arrange Meetings (data entry)

Step 2 to 4 only have to be done on the rst-time use. For daily maintenance, users only need to do the 1st

and 5th step for data entry.

5-1 Login meetingPost

You can enter meetinPost via the following two methods:

Method 1:

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Method 2:

If you are already in the Web Manager of xPost, you can switch to meetingPost from the upper side toolbar.

5-2 Set Up a Meeting Room Display

To use meetingPost, you must set up a display for a meeting room rst; then select and edit a template for it.

5-2-1 Add a Meeting Room

1. Select [Template] on the toolbar; then you will see the page of “Meeting Rooms”.

2. In the “Meeting Rooms” page, click [Add] to add a new meeting room. Fill in the “Room’s Name” and

an optional “Note” eld.

3. After all rooms are set, click [Apply] to save the changes.

NOTE

The number of meeting rooms you create here is limited by the license you purchase. You cannot

create more rooms than the license. If you need to use meetingPost for more rooms, please

purchase more licenses.

5-2-2 Apply a Template

1. Click on the edit button of “Template” on the right-hand side of the specic meeting room which you

want to edit.

2. In the “Select Template” page, you can choose a template from pre-loaded templates, and click [Apply]

to conrm your selection. For each template, you can see preview and information on this page.

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5-2-3 Upload a Template

1. Click on the edit button of “Template” on the right-hand side of the specic meeting room which you

want to edit. Then, you can go to the “Select Template” page.

2. In the “Select Template” page, click [Browse…] to select a template le and click [Upload] to add a

new template.

• Click the arrow and check the preview of three types of this

template.

Type:

• Each template contains three types of presentation.

Meeting:

- Only show one current meeting on the screen.

Table:

- List out all the appointed meetings of the day on the screen.

Mixed:

- Mix “Meeting” and “Table” type in one display.

Display:

• Indicate supported display orientation, “horizontal”

(landscape) or “Vertical” (Portrait).

Resolution:

• Indicate supported display resolutions

NOTE

Templates must be prepared with suitable programs and adequate testing. Therefore, you can only

upload templates provided by CAYIN. Please contact CAYIN’s sales representatives if you need the

customization services.

5-3 Modify Template (Template Settings)

After you select a template for a meeting room, you can further customize the meeting room template. If you

do not change settings of template, you still can start to input meeting data into the system with the default

presentation.

1. Go to “Meeting Rooms” page. (meetingPost → Template)

2. For each meeting room, you will see three small icons, , , , in front of the URL link. You

can click the icon and modify each template design in the “Template Settings” page.

, , and represent three different types of presentation.

: Meeting : Table : Mixed (Table + Meeting)

NOTE

You can also click on the edit button on the selected template to enter the “Template Settings” page.

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3. You can modify settings for each template type. You can choose either “Default” or “Advance”

settings.

Default

Most of the settings will be kept as the original template design. Few parameters can be edited.

Choosing this option can keep the template settings simple and t the original design.

Resolution:

• Select an appropriate display resolution. You must congure the display settings of

SMP player with the same resolution as the template settings here so that the screen can display it

properly.

Display:

• Choose either Horizontal (landscape) or Vertical (portrait) display type.

Room Logo:

• Upload a logo le for this meeting room. It’s optional.

Play when no event:

• You can choose to play images, Flash, or videos during the time when there

is no event. If you want to play video les, please upload les in the “video” folder of SMP’s Media

Folder. Check the option, “Full Screen”, and you can play video in the full-screen mode.

NOTE

xPost DOES NOT support CMYK image format. Please DO NOT upload images files in CMYK

format. If you accidentally upload a CMYK image, it may cause some problems. Please contact

CAYIN for the solution.

Advance

You can edit most of the template parameters, including changing background and font settings.

Resolution, Display, Room Logo, and Play when no event:

• These options are the same as

the ones in the “Default” mode.

Background:

• To replace the template background, you can choose to use a single color, an

image, or the default background.

Font settings:

• You can edit font and size of the texts in the following items – Room’s name, Date

& Time, Event name, and Descriptions.

NOTE

xPost DOES NOT support CMYK image format. Please DO NOT upload images files in CMYK

format. If you accidentally upload a CMYK image, it may cause some problems. Please contact

CAYIN for the solution.

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Clock:

• You can choose to show a clock on the template. You can use the default clock or upload

your own Flash clock.

4. After you congure them, click [Apply] to conrm the changes.

5-4 Connect meetingPost to SMP Player

After the meeting room template is selected and modied, please go back to the “Meeting Rooms” page. You

can see that each meeting room is equipped with 1 to 3 URLs (depends on how many types this template

supports). The URL is the link between meetingPost and SMP player.

To connect meetingPost to SMP player, you need to create a playlist on a SMP-WEB series player and copy

the correspondent URL shown on the “Meeting Rooms” page into the playlist.

NOTE

The preview image is only for your reference. When you change the font color, you will see the

correspondent texts in the preview image change the color, too. However, most congurations will

not be changed simultaneously in the preview image, so please conrm the nal presentation on

the screen.

1. Select one of the URLs of one meeting room, and copy it to the clipboard.

2. Open the Web Manager of the SMP-WEB series player, which will control the screen of this meeting

room. Click “Browser” and go to the “Browser” page. Click [Add new item] to create a playlist.

NOTE

You may need to modify the IP address of this URL if your network environment is complicated.

Please make sure the IP address or domain name can be connected from the SMP player to the

xPost server.

LAN

WAN

Intranet

Admin PC

Adminstrator

SMP 2

SMP 1

Screen

Meeting Room A

Screen

Meeting Room B

xPost Server

(IP: 59.120.150.76)

Set a playlist with the link:

http:// 59.120.150.76/cayin_hotel/meet/2-1

Set a playlist with the link:

http:// 59.120.150.76/cayin_hotel/meet/3-3

Meeting Room A:

http:// 59.120.150.76/cayin_hotel/meet/2-1

Meeting Room B:

http:// 59.120.150.76/cayin_hotel/meet/3-3

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3. Paste the URL (from step 1) to the “Remote URL” field and set “Duration” to “Always”. Then, click

[SAVE].

4. Enable the added item and leave “Check le timestamp / URL every … seconds” unchecked.

5. Click [SAVE] → [A PPLY ]; then you will see the SMP player start to play the playlist and the meeting

template be shown on the screen.

5-5 Arrange Meetings (Events)

After you nish conguring the system and meeting room display, you can start to arrange meetings and edit

meeting information in meetingPost.

1. Select [Calendar] on the toolbar; then you will see the page of “Calendar”.

2. In "Calendar" user interface, you can choose “Monthly” or “Weekly” view.

The current date will be marked in blue.

Monthly view

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Weekly view

3. If you have more than one meeting room, you can also switch to a different meeting room by clicking

on the name of that meeting room.

4. Click on “New Event” or the day number; then, you will see a pop-up window and can start to add a

new meeting/event.

5. In the New/Edit Event page, please ll in the necessary information in each eld.

Meeting room:

• Select one of the existing meeting rooms.

Time:

• Schedule the beginning and ending time of this event.

Display event time:

• Enable this function and the event time will be shown on the screen.

Display event […] minutes earlier:

• If the value is 10, this event will be shown on the screen 10

minutes earlier than the event time begins, so that visitors can learn about the upcoming meeting.

Event Logo (optional):

• Upload event logo file (jpg, gif, or png). The suggested image size for

selected template is listed on the UI. You cannot upload an image le which is larger than 1M bytes

or exceeds the width or height of the template.

NOTE

xPost DOES NOT support CMYK image format. Please DO NOT upload images files in CMYK

format. If you accidentally upload a CMYK image, it may cause some problems. Please contact

CAYIN for the solution.

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Event name:

• Enter event name here, e.g. “CAYIN Product Release”.

Description 1 (optional):

• Optional description eld.

Description 2 (optional):

• Optional description eld.

• Show the login user. This eld will not be shown on the screen. It is only for your reference.

6. After “New Event” is added, you can see the event on calendar.

You can modify or remove the event by clicking the [Edit] or [Delete] button.

NOTE

You cannot edit events in the past.

7. The event will be shown on the screen of the meeting room when it is due to start.

6. waynderPost Module

wayfinderPost is application software that CAYIN especially develops for public

spaces where conveying announcements, promoting events, and guiding directions

are crucial and changed frequently. This software is designed to incorporate with

CAYIN SMP-WEB series products. By integrating wayfinderPost’s editing and

managerial functions, CAYIN’s digital signage player can present dynamic public

announcements and direction guidance more easily.

wayfinderPost provides a content editing tool with easy operation workflow

comprising the following ve steps:

STEP 1: Login waynderPost

STEP 2: Set Up a waynding Display

STEP 3: Modify Template Settings

STEP 4: Connect waynderPost to SMP Player

STEP 5: Enter waynderPost Data

Step 2 to 4 only have to be done on the rst-time use. For daily maintenance, users only need to do the 1st

and 5th step for data entry.

6-1 Login waynderPost

You can enter waynderPost via the following two methods:

Method 1:

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Method 2:

If you are already in the Web Manager of xPost, you can switch to waynderPost from the upper side toolbar.

6-2 Set Up a Waynding Display

To use waynderPost, you must set up a display rst, and then select and edit a template for it.

6-2-1 Add a Display

1. Select [Template] on the toolbar; then you will see the page of “Display”.

2. In the “Display” page, click [Add] to add a new display. Fill in the “Display Name” and an optional “Note”

eld.

3. After all rooms are set, click [Apply] to save the changes.

NOTE

The number of displays you create here is limited by the license you purchase. You cannot create

more displays than the license. If you need more displays, please purchase more licenses.

6-2-2 Apply a Template

1. Click on the edit button of “Template” on the right-hand side of the specic display which you want to

edit.

2. In the “Select Template” page, you can choose a template from pre-loaded templates, and click

[Apply] to conrm your selection. For each template, you can see preview and information on this

page.

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6-2-3 Upload a Template

1. Click on the edit button of “Template” on the right-hand side of the specic meeting room which you

want to edit. Then, you can go to the “Select Template” page.

2. In the “Select Template” page, click [Browse…] to select a template le and click [Upload].

Type:

• Each template contains 1 or 2 types of presentation.

Table of places:

- Show multiple rows of data in a table.

Indicator:

- Show one set of data only.

Display:

• Indicate supported display orientation, “Horizontal” (landscape)

or “Vertical” (portrait).

Resolution:

• Indicate supported display resolutions.

NOTE

Templates must be prepared with suitable programs and adequate testing. Therefore, you can only

upload templates provided by CAYIN. Please contact CAYIN’s sales representatives if you need the

customization service.

NOTE

Table of places Indicator

The differences between these two types of waynderPost templates are indicated as follows:

Multiple rows of data in a

table

(e.g. Five sets of data. Each

set of data includes two

images and one description.)

One set of data

(e.g. One event with the

photo, even name, ballroom

name, direction)

6-3 Modify Template (Template Settings)

After you select a template for a display, you can further customize the template. If you do not change

settings of template, you still can start to input waynding data into the system with the default presentation.

1. Go to “Display” page. (waynderPost → Template)

2. For each meeting room, you will see a small icon, , in front of the URL link. You can click the icon

and modify each template design in the “Template Settings” page.

3. You can modify settings for each template type. You can choose either “Default” or “Advance”

settings.

Default

Most of the settings will be kept as the original template design. Few parameters can be edited.

Choosing this option can keep the template settings simple and t the original design.

NOTE

You can also click on the edit button on the selected template to enter the “Template Settings” page.

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Resolution:

• Select an appropriate display resolution. You must congure the display settings of

SMP player with the same resolution as the template settings here so that the screen can display it

properly.

Display:

• Choose either Horizontal (landscape) or Vertical (portrait) display type.

Type:

• Each template may contain one or two types of presentation, “Table of places” and “Indicator”.

Please check the “Type” information of each template.

Logo:

• Upload a logo le for this display.

Number of Row (For the type “Table of places” only):

• You can set the number of rows per

page on the display.

Advance

You can edit most of the template parameters, including changing background and font settings.

Resolution, Display, Logo, and Number of Row:

• These options are the same as the ones in

the “Default” mode.

Background:

• To replace the template background, you can choose to use a single color, an

image, or the default background.

Duration of data rotation:

• waynderPost can automatically rotate pages, in case the data is too

much to be fully shown on one page. You can set the duration per page here.

NOTE

xPost DOES NOT support CMYK image format. Please DO NOT upload images files in CMYK

format. If you accidentally upload a CMYK image, it may cause some problems. Please contact

CAYIN for the solution.

Font settings:

• You can edit font and size of the texts for each column.

4. After you congured, click [Apply] to conrm the changes.

NOTE

The preview image is only for your reference. When you change the font color, you will see the

correspondent texts in the preview image change the color, too. However, most congurations will

not be changed simultaneously in the preview image, so please conrm the nal presentation on

the screen.

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6-4 Connect waynderPost to SMP Player

After the display template is selected and modied, please go back to the “Display” page. You can see that

each display is equipped with one URL. The URL is the link between waynderPost and SMP player.

To connect waynderPost to SMP player, you need to create a playlist on a SMP-WEB series player and

copy the correspondent URL shown on the “Display” page into the playlist.

1. Select one of the URLs of one meeting room, and copy it to the clipboard.

NOTE

You may need to modify the IP address of this URL if your network environment is complicated. Please

make sure the IP address or domain name can be connected from the SMP player to the xPost server.

LAN

WAN

Intranet

Admin PC

Adminstrator

SMP 2

SMP 1

1F Main Entrance

2F Main Entrance

xPost Server

(IP: 59.120.150.76)

Set a playlist with the link:

http://59.120.150.76/cayin_hotel/wf/1

Set a playlist with the link:

http://59.120.150.76/cayin_hotel/wf/2

DISPLAY-1:

http://59.120.150.76/cayin_hotel/wf/1

DISPLAY-2:

http://59.120.150.76/cayin_hotel/wf/2

2. Open the Web Manger of the SMP-WEB series player, which will control the screen of this meeting

room. Click “Browser” and go to the “Browser” page. Click [Add new item] to create a playlist.

3. Paste the URL (from step 1) to the “Remote URL” field and set “Duration” to “Always”. Then, click

[SAVE].

4. Enable the added item and leave “Check le timestamp / URL every … seconds” unchecked.

5. Click [SAVE] → [APPLY ]; then you will see the SMP player start to play the playlist and the template

be shown on the screen.

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6-5 Enter waynderPost Data

After you nish conguring the display, you can start to input data into waynderPost.

1. Select [Data] on the toolbar; then you will see the page of “Data”.

2. If you have more than one waynding display, you need to switch to the right display by clicking on the

display name.

3. In the page of “Data”, there are two data sources of waynderPost module:

Enter wayfinder data manually:

• Enter data row by row manually.

Retrieve data from meetingPost:

• wayfinderPost can import event data from meetingPost

automatically after congured.

We will introduce these two data sources in the following sections.

6-5-1 Enter waynder Data Manually

1. Select “Enter waynder data manually”.

2. Click [Preview]; then you can check the template which you apply to this display. The preview can

remind you about the nal presentation of the display and also the columns of data which you should

enter on the “Data” page.

3. On the preview picture, you can see the selected template with number on it. The numbers indicate

the column on the “Data” page. (e.g. 1 means the rst column).

4. The rst blue row of the table indicates the title of each column. The title is for your reference and may

not be shown on the display. Please check the template style to make sure if the title will be shown on

the nal presentation.

You can enable/disable data column. If you only need to show two columns, please tick the checkbox

of the rst two columns, and leave others unchecked.

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NOTE

If you cannot see the preview clearly, you can also click on the preview image and download a full-

size picture of the preview that indicates the template and the size for each eld.

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5. Click [Add] to add a new data record. For each row, you can choose to enter either “Texts” or “Pictures”.

6. You can add several rows of data by clicking [Add] and enter data in those elds.

7. After you ll in all elds, please remember to click [Apply] to conrm the changes.

NOTE

The elds that waynder template can contain will be different, ranging from 2 to 4 elds. You can click

[Preview] to check the suitable number of elds for this template.

Texts

Pictures

6-5-2 Retrieve Data from meetingPost

When you use this function, the screen will display the current meetings in different meeting rooms, and the

direction of each meeting room.

1. When wayfinderPost is integrated with meetingPost module, you can choose to retrieve wayfinder

data from meetingPost. Please select “Retrieve data from meetingPost”.

2. Click [Preview]; then you can check the template which you apply to this display. The preview can

remind you about the nal presentation of the display and also the columns of data which you should

enter on the “Data” page.

3. On the preview picture, you can see the selected template with number on it. The numbers indicate

the column on the “Data” page. (e.g. 1 means the rst column).

NOTE

If you cannot see the preview clearly, you can also click on the preview image and download a full-

size picture of the preview that indicates the template and the size for each eld.

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4. The second blue row of the table indicates the title of each column. The title is for your reference and

may be shown on the display. Please check the template style to make sure if the title will be shown

on the nal presentation.

You can enable/disable data column. If you only need to show two columns, please tick the checkbox

of the rst two columns, and leave others unchecked.

5. After you ll in the title, you can dene the item of each column, so that you can retrieve the right data

from meetingPost to match the right column.

6. After you configure the data type of each column, you should start to select those meeting

rooms which you would like to display on the screen. Click [Add] to add a meeting room in the

waynderPost.

NOTE

Before you use “Choose meeting room”, please conrm that you add at least one meeting room in

the meetingPost module.

7. You can optionally choose one extra pictures for each meeting room, such as the arrow pointing the

direction of that meeting room.

If you want to upload your own icon, please click the number beside “Uploaded icon:”. Then, you will

see a pop-up window. Click “Add image le”, select a le, and click [Upload]. Then, the uploaded

images will be listed here for your choice.

NOTE

xPost DOES NOT support CMYK image format. Please DO NOT upload images files in CMYK

format. If you accidentally upload a CMYK image, it may cause some problems. Please contact

CAYIN for the solution.

8. Click [Apply] after you nish the conguration.

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7. lobbyPost Module

CAYIN lobbyPost is application software especially designed for

lobby digital signage, such as for administrations of hotel and

convention center to communicate with guests in lobbies. Powered

by lobbyPost’s content and managerial tools, the software,

incorporating with CAYIN SMP-WEB series products, can be used

to easily display advertisements, room types and tariff, currency

exchange rate, weather and more information.

lobbyPost provides a content editing tool with easy operation workow comprising the following ve steps:

STEP 1: Login lobbyPost

STEP 2: Set Up a Lobby Display

STEP 3: Modify Template Settings

STEP 4: Connect lobbyPost to SMP Player

STEP 5: Enter lobbyPost Data

Step 2 to 4 only have to be done on the rst-time use. For daily maintenance, users only need to do the 1st

and 5th step for data entry.

7-1 Login lobbyPost

You can enter lobbyPost via the following two methods:

Method 1:

Method 2:

If you are already in the Web Manager of xPost, you can switch to lobbyPost from the upper side toolbar.

7-2 Set Up a Lobby Display

To use lobbyPost, you must set up a display rst, and then select and edit a template for it.

7-2-1 Add a Display

1. Select [Template] on the toolbar; then you will see the page of “Template”.

2. In the “Template” page, click [Add] to add a new display. Fill in the “Display Name” and the optional

“Note” eld.

3. After all rooms are set, click [Apply] to save the changes.

NOTE

The number of displays you create here is limited by the license you purchase. You cannot create

more displays than the license. If you need more displays, please purchase more licenses.

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7-2-2 Apply a Template

1. Click on the edit button of “Template” on the right-hand side of the specic display which you want to

edit.

2. In the “Select Template” page, you can choose a template from pre-loaded templates, and click

[Apply] to conrm your selection. For each template, you can see preview and information on this

page.

7-2-3 Upload a Template

1. Click on the edit button of “Template” on the right-hand side of the specic display which you want to

edit. Then, you can go to the “Select Template” page.

2. In the “Select Template” page, click [Browse…] to select a template le and click [Upload].

• : Click the arrow and preview different resolutions and display

types of this template.

• Areas: Each template contains at most six areas for a variety of

combinations of room type and tariff, currency exchange, weather

information, images, Flash, video, and ticker. You can follow the

pre-configured usages or modify the data type of each area to

create your own ideal lobby display.

Display:

• Indicate supported display orientation, “Horizontal”

(landscape) or “Vertical” (portrait).

Resolution:

• Indicate supported display resolutions.

NOTE

Templates must be prepared with suitable programs and adequate testing. Therefore, you can only

upload templates provided by CAYIN. Please contact CAYIN’s sales representatives if you need the

customization service.

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7-3 Modify Template (Template Settings)

After you select a template for a lobby display, you can further customize the template. If you do not change

settings of template, you still can start to input data into the system with the default presentation.

1. Go to “Template” page. (lobbyPost → Template)

2. For each meeting room, you will see a small icon, , in front of the URL link. You can click the icon

and modify each template design in the “Template Settings” page.

3. You can congure different settings and areas for each template.

NOTE

You can also click on the edit button on the selected template to enter the “Template Settings” page.

Resolution:

• Select an appropriate display resolution. You must congure the display settings of

SMP player with the same resolution as the template settings here so that the screen can display it

properly.

Display:

• Choose either Horizontal (landscape) or Vertical (portrait) display type.

Background:

• To replace the template background, you can choose to use a single color, an

image, or the default background.

Areas:

• You can change data type of each area. The supported data type of each area varies from

template to template.

You can follow the pre-congured usages or modify the data type of each area to create your own

ideal lobby display. If you want to modify, just select a suitable data type for each area. You need

to congure more settings when you choose Weather, Room & Tariff, Currency, Image Slideshow,

Video, and Ticker.

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Weather, Room & Tariff, and Currency Settings

Number of Row:

• Specify how many rows you would like to show on the screen at a time.

Duration of data rotation:

• Specify how long one page of the data will display on the screen.

Title, Date:

• Modify the font color, type, and size of the texts of Title and Data.

EXAMPLE

You want to show the weather information of totally 15 cities, but you only have limited space on

this area. You can set “Number of Row” as 5 and 10 seconds for the duration. Then, the weather

information will be divided into 3 pages, and each of them will show information of 5 cities. The

screen will rotate these 3 pages every 10 seconds.

Image Slideshow Settings

Duration:

• Specify the duration of playing each image.

Video Settings

Display ratio: Specify the ratio of video showing on the screen.•

If you choose “Auto”, video will be shown based on the ratio of this selected area. If you play a video

with ratio 4:3 in an area with ratio 16:9, you can select 4:3 to keep the video in the original ratio.

Ticker Settings

Text Color, Font Face, Font Size:

• Modify the settings of the texts.

Direction:

• Dene the direction of the ticker. If you select “Left”, the texts will move from right to left.

Speed:

• Adjust the moving speed of the ticker.

4. After you congured, click [Apply] to conrm the changes.

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7-4 Connect lobbyPost to SMP Player

After the display template is selected and modied, please go back to the “Template” page. You can see that

each display is equipped with one URL. The URL is the link between lobbyPost and SMP player.

To connect lobbyPost to SMP player, you need to create a playlist on a SMP-WEB series player and copy

the corresponsive URL shown on the “Display” page into the playlist.

1. Select one of the URLs of one display, and copy it to the clipboard.

NOTE

You may need to modify the IP address of this URL if your network environment is complicated.

Please make sure the IP address or domain name can be connected from the SMP player to the

xPost server.

LAN

WAN

Intranet

Admin PC

Adminstrator

SMP 2

SMP 1

Building A -

North Entrance

Building A -

South Entrance

xPost Server

(IP: 59.120.150.76)

Set a playlist with the link:

http://59.120.150.76/cayin_hotel/lb/4

Set a playlist with the link:

http://59.120.150.76/cayin_hotel/lb/5

LOBBY-1:

http://59.120.150.76/cayin_hotel/lb/4

LOBBY-2:

http://59.120.150.76/cayin_hotel/lb/5

2. Open the Web Manger of the SMP-WEB series player, which will control the screen of this meeting

room. Click “Browser” and go to the “Browser” page. Click [Add new item] to create a playlist.

3. Paste the URL (from step 1) to the “Remote URL” field and set “Duration” to “Always”. Then, click

[SAVE].

4. Enable the added item and leave “Check le timestamp / URL every … seconds” unchecked.

5. Click [SAVE] → [A PPLY ]; then you will see the SMP player starts to play the playlist and the template

will be shown on the screen.

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7-5 Enter lobbyPost Data

After you nish conguring the display, you can start to input data into lobbyPost.

In lobbyPost, there are several different types of data. In general, you can categorize them into two types:

1. Table type: All data are arranged in a table. Please note that the following three types of data will be

shared by all lobby displays. You cannot apply different data to different lobby displays.

i. Room & Tariff: Enter the name, tariff and related information of guest rooms.

ii.

Currency Exchange: Select country, currency and related information.

iii. Weather: Enter weather information manually or automatically.

2. Non-Table type: The content in this category is not arranged in a table. Most of them are multimedia

les.

i. Ticker 1 & 2: Text messages

ii. Flash 1 & 2: Flash area

iii. Logo: Logo image

iv. Clock: Clock made by Flash

Video: Play video les in SMP player

vi. Image Slideshow 1 & 2: Image slideshow function

We will introduce each data type in the following sections.

7-5-1 Room & Tariff

Setup Room & Tariff data, you must select appropriate elds and enter your room information accordingly.

1. Select [Data > Room & Tariff] on the toolbar; then you will see the page of “Room & Tariff”.

2. Select field: The elds selected here will be shown on the screen in left-to-right order.

Enter eld title and enable this column by clicking on the checkbox right beside the title. For Room &

Tariff, you can show maximum ve columns of data. The title may be shown on the screen based on

your selected template. Please check the template style to make sure if the title will be shown on the

nal presentation.

Please match the appropriate type to each eld (column), so that the data will be shown correctly in

the table on the screen. After conguration, please click [Apply].

3. Add Room & Tariff: After the elds are set, click [Add] to add rooms and related information.

Title

Data

Type

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Picture:

• Upload picture images.

NOTE

xPost DOES NOT support CMYK image format. Please DO NOT upload images files in CMYK

format. If you accidentally upload a CMYK image, it may cause some problems. Please contact

CAYIN for the solution.

Room Type, Quantity, & Tariff:

• These three data types are text elds. After dening the title and

data type for each column, you can ll in the data here.

Room Availability:

• Boolean value. Show visitors whether these rooms are available or not. You

can further click on the title to change the message to your own language.

4. After the rooms are set, click [Apply] to conrm the changes.

7-5-2 Currency Exchange

1. Select [Data > Currency Exchange] on the toolbar; then you will see the page of “Currency

Exchange”.

2. Select a base currency using the scrolling selection boxes. You can enter the message your want for

the base currency.

3. Select field: The elds selected here will be shown on the screen in left-to-right order.

Enter eld title and enable this column by clicking on the checkbox right beside the title. For “Currency

Exchange”, you can show maximum three columns of data, which are “currency (country)”, “buy”,

and “sell”. The title may be shown on the screen based on your selected template. Please check the

template style to make sure if the title will be shown on the nal presentation.

Please match the appropriate type to each eld (column), so that the data will be shown correctly in

the table on the screen. After conguration, please click [Apply].

4. After the elds are all set, click [Add] to add the target country (currency) and enter data. lobbyPost

supports to display national flags. You only need to select a country and its national flag will be

displayed automatically. If you do not want to show national ags on the screen, please click “Hide

country ag”.

5. After the rooms are set, click [Apply] to conrm the changes.

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7-5-3 Weather

1. Select [Data > Weather] on the toolbar; then you will see the page of “Weather”.

2. Select field: The elds selected here will be shown on the screen in left-to-right order.

Enter field titles and enable these columns by clicking on the checkbox right beside the titles.

For “Weather”, you can show maximum four columns of data, which are “city”, “weather & icon”,

“Temperature”, and “Notes”. The titles may be shown on the screen based on your selected template.

Please check the template style to make sure if the titles will be shown on the nal presentation.

Please match the appropriate type to each eld (column), so that the data will be shown correctly in

the table on the screen. After conguration, please click [Apply].

3. After all fields are set, you can start to enter data. There are two options for you to enter weather

information: “Enter data manually” and “retrieve data automatically from the Internet”.

Enter data manually

Select “Enter data manually”. Then, click [Add] to add information.

City, Temperature, Weather, Notes:

• You can enter texts here.

Icon:

• Click and you will see a pop-up window. Choose a suitable icon and click on the

image.

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Retrieve data automatically from the Internet

Enable “Choose a city”. After you select a city, a temperature scale, and a data source, please click

[Add] to add information.

City and Notes:

• These are texts. You can change manually.

Temperature, Weather & Icon:

• This information will be retrieved automatically from Yahoo.

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4. Click [Apply] after you conrm the changes.

NOTE

If you choose “Retrieve data online”, you must make sure the xPost server connect to Internet properly.

7-5-4 General and Image Slideshow

For all “Non-Table” type data, every display has its own settings. You must configure the information

individually for each display.

Select [Data > General or Image Slideshow] on the toolbar; then you will see the respective page.

Then, select display from the menu rst.

Ticker message

Enter text messages here.

Flash

Click [Browse…] and upload you own Flash (.swf) le.

Logo

Upload a logo image (jpg, gif, or png).

NOTE

xPost DOES NOT support CMYK image format. Please DO NOT upload images les in CMYK format.

If you accidentally upload a CMYK image, it may cause some problems. Please contact CAYIN for the

solution.

Clock

Select the default, pre-loaded clock, or upload your own clock (format: .swf)

Video

Set the path of the video les in the Media Folder of the appointed SMP player.

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Image Slideshow

Upload image les (jpg, gif, png). Click “Add more image le”; then select les in your local PC.

NOTE

xPost DOES NOT support CMYK image format. Please DO NOT upload images les in CMYK format.

If you accidentally upload a CMYK image, it may cause some problems. Please contact CAYIN for the

solution.

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