Screenshot of a specific layout

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Again, I’ve been blessed with some strange behaviours in some PCs.

Some of my players have tickers (feed, Data Set and forecast) stopping after hours running. The layout executes fine (I have a video introduction to my tickers), but the content doesn’t show. If I reset the app, all works again.

For this reason, and many others, I would need to keep monitoring those players via screenshots.

Can I execute a shell command, or anything like this, to make a screenshot of the layout?

In some way, can I reproduce the CMS command for the screenshot by myself?

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You can set a screen shot interval in the Display Settings which will cause a screen shot to be provided every N minutes.

Alternatively you can write your own application to take screenshots and then have Xibo send those - you’d need to broadcast an intent to:

android.intent.action.SCREENSHOT

Which contained the uri to your saved image, like:

Intent shareIntent = new Intent();
shareIntent.setAction(Intent.SCREENSHOT);
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uriToImage);
shareIntent.setType("image/jpeg");

Xibo listens for these and sends the screenshots to the CMS for processing.