When ViPlex Express V1.8.0 and later or VPlayer V3.2.0 and later is used for binding a player to VNNOX Standard/AD, there is no need to create a player and the player is generated automatically in VNNOX AD.
Step 1 Choose 
> Player Management > Players.
Step 2 Click New.
Step 3 Select synchronous player or asynchronous player and click Next.
- Synchronous player: Bound to VPlayer
- Asynchronous player: Bound to the Taurus with ViPlex
Step 4 Enter a player name, associate a license with the player, select a solution update type, specify categories for the player, and then click OK.
Available licenses are displayed in the drop-down options next to Associated license. Licenses that are associated with other players or expired licenses are not displayed. If there are no available licenses, the player cannot be created. To view licenses, see 5.2.8.1 Viewing Licenses.
Solution update type:
- Manual: After a solution is associated with the player or the solution is modified, you have to click Update solution on the player list page to distribute the solution manually.
- Auto: After a solution is associated with the player or the solution is modified, VNNOX automatically distributes the solution.
Players are bound to VNNOX Standard by default. Users can transfer the players to VNNOX AD and also can transfer them back to VNNOX Standard.
Here we only introduce how to transfer players from VNNOX AD to VNNOX Standard.
Step 1 Choose > Player Management > Players.
Step 2 Select one or more players and click Transfer to VNNOX Standard.
Step 3 Click OK.
Step 1 Choose > Player Management > Players.
Step 2 Select a player and click Attribute, or select multiple players and click Bulk edit.
The player attribute page is displayed.
Table 6-1 Player attributes
The player attributes are illustrated in Table 6-1. Only some tabs and attributes are displayed during bulk edit.
Table 6-1 Player attributes
| Tab Name | Purpose | Description |
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Basic Info | Set the player name and update type, enable the player, associate with solutions, specify the non-scheduled content and time zone. | For detailed operations, see 5.2.4 Solution Publishing. |
Workgroup | Specify the workgroup the player belongs to and select the workgroups to which you will share the player in a non-public workgroup. | The system administrator can view all the players of all the players. Sub-users can view the players only in the public workgroup, their workgroups and sub-workgroups, as well as the players shared to their workgroups. |
Remote control plan | Set remote control plans to remotely control screens as scheduled. When the function buttons in power control are grayed, it indicates that the system has not obtained the power configuration information of the player.
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Status | View player status, associate with licenses, clean up media, set data threshold, and read environment monitoring data. | For VPlayer, clicking Clean-up will delete the media items that are not related to the solution currently being played. For the Taurus, clicking Clean-up will delete all the media items. If a media item is being played, a black screen will be displayed. After the data threshold is enabled, the threshold minus the data used by the terminal player is the remaining data of the terminal player. If the data required for updating the solution is greater than the remaining data of the terminal player, a prompt will appear. |
Media download status | Display the download status of each media item in the solution. | - |
Screenshot | Display the screenshot, recapture a screenshot, and turn off the screen in an emergency.
| In the player list, this tab is displayed only after you click Screenshot. For detailed operations, see 5.2.5.3 Capturing Screenshots. |
Remote control history | View the execution history of remote real-time and scheduled control commands, including the commands from VNNOX, and the brightness adjustment, volume adjustment, and power control commands from ViPlex. | - |
Position | Specify the geographic position of the player, including address, longitude, and latitude. Baidu Maps and Google Maps are available. |
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Step 3 After the attribute editing is done, click Save or Save & Close.