Player Management | Webcockpit Knowledge Base

Description

In the Player Management, users with the role “Org. Administrator” can manage SOTEC players. This hardware allows to display a dashboard configured in Webcockpit on a screen in the restaurant.

Availability

Subscription: Pro
Scope: All markets
Limitations: Only for users in the "Org. Administrator" role

Hardware setup

Notes

Use only the original power supply (included in hardware delivery).
The player can be connected to the internet either via Ethernet or Wifi. For Wifi, additional setup is required (see Wifi setup).

Connecting the hardware (Internet via cable)

Connect the player and the screen together via the HDMI interface.
Connect the player and internet router with Ethernet cable.
Connect the original power supply to power the device
The player will now start automatically. After a short moment, the following web page for initializing the player will open in the browser window.

Web page for initialization of the SOTEC Player

Connecting the hardware (Internet via Wifi/Wifi)

Connect the player and the screen via the HDMI interface.
Connect the original power adapter to supply power to the device.
The player will now start automatically. After a short moment, a message appears that the device cannot establish an Internet connection:

Setup Wifi

Connect your smartphone or laptop to the players wifi hotspot: “player-hotspot”.

Once your device is connected to the hotspot, open a browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc.) and type 10.42.0.1 in the address bar.

On the page, enter the name and password of your wlan and press the “Submit” button.

WLAN SSID = Your Wifi name Password = Your Wifi password

Please pay attention to upper and lower case. After pressing the “Submit” button, it may take a few minutes until the wifi is connected and the initialization page appears.

If the initialization page is not displayed after 5 minutes at the latest, enter the access data again.

Set up software

Notes

Before the software can be set up, make sure that the player screen displays the One Time Code (See Hardware Setup).

Add player

Log in to Webcockpit with your user data. Please use a different computer for this and not the present hardware.
In the left navigation menu open the Administrator menu item and click Player Management. Then click the **New Device **button.

In the following overlay you can enter all the information you need. Assign a name of up to 30 characters and select a dashboard and a time period in which the data should be displayed. Make sure to correctly transfer the One Time Code displayed on the initialization web page. In the second tab, the restaurant is selected.

After successful initialization, the dashboards configured in Webcockpit can be displayed on the screen. Feel free to create additional dashboards.

Edit Player

Navigate to Administrator, then Player Management and click the pencil icon.

The overlay for editing the player information opens.

Add custom message

A custom message can be written for each device. For this purpose, the user clicks on the “New message” button (above) and selects the device. In the drop-down menu, all devices for which there is no message yet are displayed. After successfully creating the message, it will be displayed in the “Message” widget (see Dashboard Management). To edit the message, click on the “Pencil” button in the table in the row of the respective player. It is also possible to disable or delete the message.