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Users can remotely control terminal players in real time or as scheduled and sync time for terminal players.

When users transfer players to VNNOX AD, scheduled control data will be transferred together with the players.

Step 1 Choose Player Control.

Step 2 Click an icon to enter the corresponding page.

Table 4-3 Function description

Function	Description
Brightness Control	Adjust screen brightness.
Volume Control	Adjust screen volume.
Video Source Switching	Switch between internal video source and HDMI video source.
Player Restart	Restart terminal players which takes about 20 seconds. The player is offline while being restarted.
Screen Status Control	Switch between normal display and black screen.
Monitor	View terminal player disk usage and data usage and clean up media.
Power Control	Turn on or off screen power. Allows for screen power control through board power and multifunction card power configuration.
Time Synchronization	Sync time for terminal players.
Synchronous Playback	Turn on or off synchronous playback.
Playback Management	Capture screenshots of the current playing content to check whether the playback is normal.

Step 3 On the left of the page, select the target online players.

Step 4 Perform any of the following operation as required.

- Remote real-time control

Applicable to brightness adjustment, volume adjustment, video source switching, player restart, screen status control, monitoring, power control and synchronous playback.

Users can view real-time brightness, volume, video source status, screen status or power status. If multiple online players are selected, only the real-time status of the first player is displayed.

- - For the player restart function, click Restart Now.
  - For the monitoring function, click Media Cleanup. If users want to clean up the media being played, the screen may go black.
  - For playback management function, click Recapture. After a screenshot is captured, the screenshot, the date and time when it was captured, and solution source are displayed.
  - For other functions, set the function parameters and click Apply.
- Remote scheduled control

Applicable to brightness adjustment, volume adjustment, video source switching, player restart, screen status control and power control.

In the Scheduled Control area, perform the following operations as required and then click Apply.

- - Create a plan: Click to set command parameters and then click OK.
  - Change a plan: Select a plan, click , change command parameters, and then click OK.
  - Delete a plan: select one or multiple plans and click .
  - Enable a plan: Set the toggle button to .
- Time synchronization

Select a time synchronization method as required and then click Apply.

Table 4-4 Description of time synchronization methods

Method

Applicable To

Time Reference

Description

Manual

Taurus

Time of the selected time zone

After you select a time zone, the new time will be displayed.

NTP

VPlayer

Taurus

Time of NTP server

Click to add a custom server.

RF (Radio Frequency)

Taurus

Time of the reference device

You need to buy and install RF devices before time synchronization.

Group ID: Set a same group ID for multiple Taurus units and these units belong to the same group.
Set as reference device: Sync the time of other devices in a group with the time of the reference device.
NTP: When NTP is turned on, the time of the reference device will be synchronized with the time of NTP server. When NTP is turned off, the time of the reference device will be synchronized with the time of the selected time zone.