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ThinSign Standalone Digital Signage

ThinSign Standalone Digital Signage

This App plays in Fullscreen Videos Images Ticker & MP3 in continuous Loop.
ThinSign is a easy to use, digital signage that allows to play images, texts(ticker), videos, and mp3 music files on android based devices such as tablets or android tv box.
Content files can be either directly stored on the device in a given directory (and then will be played in a loop) or
you can also install some network sharing application like SAMBADROID to access the /sdcard/thinpc/ folder of the device from windows pc
To access your content of Android TV Box or Tablet you just need to click on start and than Run and put the IP address 192.168.x.xxx of your tv box or tablet.
you can see thinpc folder inside that you can see 4 folders video, image, ticker & audio.
so you can copy, paste or delete the content of your TV Box or Tablet using your existing LAN or Wifi network.
there is also one more semi cloud option you can use for ThinSign.
in that you need to download dropbox on your pc or mobile phone.
after install of dropbox you need to create one thinpc folder in your dropbox and sub folders inside the thinpc folder video image ticker audio.
and in the tv box or tablet pc you need to install the dropsync app
after install of dropsync app goto setting of dropsync and need to select local thinpc folder to sync with dropbox thinpc folder and method will be mirror option.
please note dropbox and dropsync has to be configured with same email ID.

ThinSign application can be used for shops, restaurants, hotels, elevators & corporate companies lobby.

Supported file types:
– images: jpg, gif, png, bmp
– video: mp4, WMV, 3GP
– audio: mp3
– Text: txt

In this ThinSign player version (without internet connection), the content files must be copied into the /sdcard/thinpc/ directory and will be played fullscreen in the loop.

The folders will be like this
videos : /sdcard/thinpc/video
images : /sdcard/thinpc/image
audio : /sdcard/thinpc/audio
text (ticker) : /sdcard/thinpc/ticker

You can Enable/Disable the ticker by clicking or taping 3 times in 5 seconds on screen.
you can also change the image delay time by clicking or taping 3 times in 5 seconds on screen.

After installing this app you can’t exit this app directly.

For exit the ThinSign player application you need to Click or Tap 10 times in 5 seconds on the screen.
so it will ask for username name and password.
username : thinpc
password : 11111

if you need more information and support you can email us on [email protected]

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Standalone Digital Signage Or Networked Digital Signage

Digital signage hardware comes in many guesses from indoor and the much more expensive outdoor digital signage, there are even more differenced the location.

Standalone digital signage.

This can be an indoor digital poster or an outdoor LCD enclosure that is equipped with a standalone media player. These range of products have many advantages, firstly the cost is very attractive and secondly they are easy to configure with little if any technical knowledge required.

Working from a media player that has the adverts loaded on to a memory card and it locked into the player allows for fast and affordable signage solutions, to update the content you can either add fresh content to a new memory card and then swap them for the old memory card or the content can be added to a flash drive that is then plugged into the media players USB port and the copy the content to the memory card already in the player.

Networkable digital poster.

As the name suggests this hardware is more expensive as it has built in extra technology such as the ability to connect to either a wired or wireless network making updating content simply and fast. These are ideal for multiple locations in a mall for instance as the labour time to update the content would cost more than the added network technology.

Just like network cabling an office, all you need is an outlet near the location of the digital sign and then just plug the hardware into the network and then from the central network office you should be able to see the IP addresses of the new signs and from here you can add the content.

Now updating contnet can be as easy and simple as FTP’ing a page to a website, using these new wireless LCD advertising displays, these are more convenient than the USB units and only cost around 15% for the convenience of remote updating content as well as being able to schedule the ads to run and update at set times throughout the digital signage network. Every business person can see the advantage of digital signage and how it can be used, now can you see how it could help you?

Graham is a technical author on the topic of digital signage as well as owning one of the world’s leading manufacturers of LCD enclosures, this range of LCD enclosure are used throughout the world.