Webpage - best practice?

[roanyg]

Issue

What is the best method to show a webpage on a Xibo player? I have made 8-10 layouts that shows webpages on 30 Xibo players. For example from the page Filmbib where I am only interesting in showing the first 5 film covers. I have hidden parts of the layout with colored rectangles to hide the aereas of the webpage that I don’t want to show. On top layers I have put my customized text and logos.

The webpage is not static, so these 5 film covers changes from time to time.

Even though I put a checkmark in “Preload”, the webpage is not loaded at all / loaded delayed some times.

Can I force the player to cache the webpage at the Xibo server or Xibo player and check for an updated webpage only once an hour?

My goal is that the webpages should allways be preloaded / visible when it is played.

CMS Version

4.0.10 xibosignage.com

Player Type

DSDevice DSCS9X (WiFi seems to load webpages slower than ethernet)

Player Version

Android 4-404

[Scoots]

Hi Roanyg, Welcome to the community!

So (and I could be wrong here) Xibo will use the built in browser to show web based elements.

Couple of things to try;

Using the Embed Widget instead of the web page widget? (I’ve had varying success with this)

Test the layout on a windows based player? My go to is windows if i am doing anything alittle bit more indepth than a video on a screen.

ps. Wifi is always slower than ethernet!

Let us know how you get on!

Scoots.