With Display Control enabled, Rise Player automatically powers your screen on when content is scheduled to show and off when no content is scheduled to show—using HDMI-CEC, RS-232 or System-on-Chip (SOC) smart displays.
Requirements
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Display Control using CEC is supported in the following environments
- Rise Player for Windows, Ubuntu, Raspbian, Brightsign
- Rise Vision Media Player
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Display Control using RS-232 is supported in the following environments:
- ChromeOS
- Rise Vision Media Player and Promethean OPS-M
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Display Control for System-on-Chip (SOC) smart displays is supported in the following models:
- Avocor K-Series
- Avocor R-Series
- Promethean OPS-A2
- Promethean OPS-M
- LG Standard Digital Signage Displays (webOS 4 or higher)
Instructions
Enable Display Control
- Sign into your Rise Vision account
- Click Displays in the side navigation menu
- Click the name of the Display that you want to update
- Click the Manage tab on the right side on the left-hand menu.
- Toggle Display Control to On
- Use Modes to specify if you want to use HDMI-CEC or RS-232
- When you select RS-232, a window will open for you to specify the configuration for the serial port.
- Click the Save button to apply the change.
Sample RS-232 Configuration
The following is an configuration sample for a media player running Ubuntu with commands to turn an LG screen on and off.
serial-port=/dev/ttyS0
serial-baud-rate=9600
serial-data-bits=8
serial-parity=1
serial-stop-bits=1
serial-flow-control=NONE
serial-screen-on-cmd=6B 61 20 30 31 20 30 31 0D
serial-screen-off-cmd=6B 61 20 30 31 20 30 30 0DBehavior Notes
- If your media player does not support CEC, we recommend you purchase the Rise Vision Media Player. If that is not an option, adapters are available for purchase from Pulse Eight.
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