ChyTV HD-150 User manual

Pub. No 2A02234, 1/28/08

Table of Contents

1INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................1

1.1 GETTING STARTED..............................................................................................1

1.2 CREATING CONTENT ..........................................................................................1

1.2.1 Section 6: ChyTV Overview......................................................................1

1.2.2 Section 7: ChyTV Author Quick Start Tutorial......................................1

1.2.3 Section 8: PowerPoint Quick Start Tutorial..........................................1

1.2.4 Section 9: Manually Creating a Page Using PowerPoint..................1

1.2.5 Section 10: ChyTV Elements Reference.................................................1

1.2.6 Section 11: ChyTV Tools Reference........................................................2

2CHYTV HARDWARE SETUP ..........................................................................3

2.1 INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................3

2.2 HARDWARE CONNECTION.................................................................................4

2.2.1 USB Version Connection Diagram..........................................................4

2.2.2 Ethernet Version Connection Diagram...................................................4

2.2.3 Connector Descriptions.............................................................................5

2.3 OPERATION..........................................................................................................6

2.3.1 Controls and Indicators.............................................................................6

3CHYTV PLUS HARDWARE SETUP..............................................................7

3.1 INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................7

3.2 HARDWARE CONNECTION.................................................................................8

3.2.1 Connection Diagram..................................................................................9

3.2.2 Connector Descriptions.............................................................................9

3.3 OPERATION........................................................................................................11

3.3.1 Controls and Indicators..........................................................................11

3.3.2 Selecting a Video Input...........................................................................12

4CHYTV HD 100 / HD 150 SETUP..................................................................13

4.1 INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................13

4.2 HARDWARE CONNECTION...............................................................................13

4.2.1 Power Supply Voltage Selector.............................................................13

4.2.2 Connection Diagram...............................................................................14

4.2.3 Connector Descriptions..........................................................................14

4.3 OPERATION........................................................................................................15

4.3.1 Turning On / Off.......................................................................................15

4.3.2 Setting the IP Address.............................................................................15

4.3.3 “Phoning Home”.....................................................................................16

4.3.4 Connecting with ChyTV Tools...............................................................16

4.4 AUTHORING CONTENT.....................................................................................17

4.4.1 ChyTV Tools.............................................................................................17

4.4.2 ChyTV Author...........................................................................................17

4.4.3 PowerPoint...............................................................................................18

5PC SOFTWARE INSTALLATION...............................................................19

5.1 PC REQUIREMENTS...........................................................................................19

5.2 CHYTVSOFTWARE OVERVIEW......................................................................19

5.3 INSTALLING CHYTVTOOLS............................................................................19

5.4 CONFIGURINGTHE IP ADDRESS OF A CHYTVUNIT....................................21

5.4.1 Overview....................................................................................................21

5.4.2 IP Address Configuration.......................................................................21

5.5 ADDITIONAL IP.TXT ENTRIES........................................................................24

5.5.1 Display Information................................................................................24

5.5.2 Name and Password................................................................................24

5.5.3 FTP Off......................................................................................................24

5.5.4 Network Priority......................................................................................24

5.6 INSTALLINGTHE USB DRIVER.......................................................................25

5.6.1 USB Installation Tips..............................................................................26

5.7 MANUALLY INSTALLING CHYTV ELEMENTS...............................................27

5.7.1 Adding the Elements Add-In to PowerPoint.......................................27

5.8 INSTALLING CHYTVAUTHOR........................................................................28

6CHYTV OVERVIEW.........................................................................................31

6.1 HOW CHYTVWORKS......................................................................................31

6.2 HOW PAGES ARE CREATED.............................................................................31

6.2.1 Page Elements..........................................................................................31

6.2.2 Pages..........................................................................................................32

6.3 HOW PAGES ARE PROGRAMMED FOR DISPLAY............................................32

6.4 HOW PROJECTS ARE ORGANIZED AND STORED...........................................32

6.4.1 CF Folder..................................................................................................33

6.4.2 HTML Folder............................................................................................33

6.4.3 Images Folder...........................................................................................33

6.4.4 Thumbnail Folder....................................................................................33

6.5 CREATING AND DISPLAYING PAGES ON CHYTV.........................................34

6.5.1 Page Elements..........................................................................................34

6.6 STORING AND REFERENCING DATA...............................................................35

6.6.1 Embedding................................................................................................35

6.6.2 File Referencing.......................................................................................35

6.6.3 Active Data................................................................................................36

7CHYTV AUTHOR QUICK START TUTORIAL.....................................37

7.1 OPENING AND TRANSFERRING A PROJECT TO THE CHYTVUNIT..............37

7.2 CREATING AND SAVING A NEW PAGE...........................................................38

7.3 ADDING A BACKGROUND IMAGE TO THE NEW PAGE..................................39

7.4 ADDING A CRAWLTOTHE PAGE ....................................................................41

7.5 ADDING VIDEO TO THE PAGE..........................................................................44

7.6 SAVING AND TESTING YOUR PAGE................................................................46

7.7 ADDING ACTIVE DATA TO YOUR PROJECT...................................................46

7.8 USING ACTIVE DATA IN TAGS........................................................................49

7.9 ADDING PAGES TO THE SCHEDULE................................................................54

7.10 TIPS FOR USING CHYTVTOOLS......................................................................55

8POWERPOINT QUICK START TUTORIAL...........................................56

8.1 OPENING AND TRANSFERRING A PROJECT TO THE CHYTVUNIT..............56

8.2 CREATING AND SAVING A NEW PAGE ...........................................................57

8.3 ADDING ACTIVE DATA TO THE PAGE............................................................61

8.4 ADDING CRAWL DATA TO PAGES..................................................................66

8.5 ADDING ARTISTIC ELEMENTSTO PAGES. .....................................................68

8.6 ADDING PAGES TO THE SCHEDULE................................................................72

8.7 TIPS FOR TWEAKING YOUR PAGE ..................................................................72

9MANUALLY CREATING A PAGE USING POWERPOINT...............73

9.1 POWERPOINT OBJECTS.....................................................................................73

9.1.1 Slides..........................................................................................................73

9.1.2 Backgrounds.............................................................................................73

9.1.3 Picture Boxes............................................................................................73

9.1.4 Text Boxes.................................................................................................73

9.2 THE POWERPOINT USER INTERFACE.............................................................74

9.2.1 The Menu...................................................................................................74

9.2.2 The Toolbar...............................................................................................76

9.2.3 The Slide List............................................................................................76

9.2.4 The Slide Layout Area.............................................................................76

9.2.5 The Notes Area.........................................................................................76

9.2.6 Context Sensitive Menus.........................................................................76

9.3 ADDING POWERPOINT OBJECTS TO A SLIDE................................................76

9.3.1 Creating a New Presentation.................................................................76

9.3.2 Setting the Background Color...............................................................76

9.3.3 Setting the Background Image...............................................................77

9.3.4 Placing an Image.....................................................................................77

9.3.5 Moving and Resizing an Image.............................................................78

9.3.6 Adding Text to a Page.............................................................................78

9.3.7 Formatting the Text Font, Font Style, Size or Color.........................78

9.3.8 Adding Shadow and Underline Effects to Text...................................79

9.3.9 Adding a Border or Fill to the Text Box..............................................79

9.3.10 Moving and Resizing the Text Box........................................................79

9.4 ADDING TAGS TO A SLIDE...............................................................................80

9.4.1 How the Image Engine Displays Tags.................................................80

9.4.2 Rules for Using Tags...............................................................................81

9.4.3 Adding a Tag in PowerPoint..................................................................81

9.4.4 Creating a 4x3 Fixed Aspect Ratio Video Tag....................................82

9.5 SAVING THE PRESENTATION AS HTML........................................................82

9.6 PLACING TEXT AND GRAPHICS OVER FULL SCREEN VIDEO......................82

9.6.1 Keying Defined.........................................................................................82

9.6.2 Keying in ChyTV......................................................................................83

10 CHYTV ELEMENTS REFERENCE.............................................................84

10.1 POWERPOINT CONFIGURATION......................................................................84

10.2 BASIC OPERATION............................................................................................84

10.3 CREATE NEW PAGE..........................................................................................84

10.4 SET BACKGROUND............................................................................................85

10.5 VIDEO WINDOW................................................................................................85

10.6 GRAPHICS...........................................................................................................85

10.7 CRAWL................................................................................................................85

10.7.1 Crawl Parameters....................................................................................85

10.7.2 Crawl Data Source..................................................................................86

10.8 AUDIO.................................................................................................................86

10.9 TEXT EFFECT .....................................................................................................87

10.10 CLOCK.............................................................................................................87

10.11 ACTIVE DATA................................................................................................88

10.12 LOGO...............................................................................................................88

10.12.1 Logo File Name ....................................................................................89

10.12.2 Active Data............................................................................................89

10.13 FLIPBOOK.......................................................................................................89

10.13.1 FlipBook File Name.............................................................................89

10.13.2 Active Data............................................................................................90

10.14 CHYTVPLUS (FOR CHYTVPLUS UNITS ONLY)......................................90

10.14.1 RS-232....................................................................................................90

10.14.2 GPIO.......................................................................................................92

10.15 SAVE AS CHYTV...........................................................................................93

11 CHYTV TOOLS REFERENCE......................................................................94

11.1 PROJECT SELECTOR..........................................................................................94

11.2 MENU BAR.........................................................................................................94

11.2.1 File..............................................................................................................94

11.2.2 View............................................................................................................95

11.2.3 Control.......................................................................................................95

11.2.4 Options.......................................................................................................95

11.2.5 Help............................................................................................................98

11.3 PROJECT TOOL BAR..........................................................................................98

11.3.1 Project Button...........................................................................................98

11.3.2 Data Selector Buttons.............................................................................99

11.3.3 Preview Button.........................................................................................99

11.4 PROJECT DATA WINDOW...............................................................................100

11.4.1 Pages........................................................................................................100

11.4.2 Data..........................................................................................................101

11.4.3 Text...........................................................................................................102

11.4.4 Audio........................................................................................................102

11.4.5 Logos........................................................................................................103

11.4.6 Flip Books...............................................................................................103

11.5 PROJECT SCHEDULE WINDOW ......................................................................103

11.5.1 Adding ChyTV Pages to the Schedule................................................104

11.5.2 Adding a Page Tag to the Schedule....................................................104

11.5.3 Changing the Order of Pages in the Schedule..................................104

11.5.4 Project Schedule Command Buttons..................................................104

11.6 DEVICE SELECTOR..........................................................................................107

11.7 CHYTVTOOLBAR CONTROLS......................................................................107

11.7.1 Update All...............................................................................................107

11.7.2 Display Controls....................................................................................107

11.7.3 Drive.........................................................................................................108

11.8 CHYTVDATA WINDOW ................................................................................108

11.8.1 Pages........................................................................................................108

11.8.2 Data..........................................................................................................108

11.8.3 Text...........................................................................................................109

11.8.4 Audio........................................................................................................109

11.8.5 Logos........................................................................................................110

11.8.6 Flip Books...............................................................................................110

11.9 CHYTVSCHEDULEWINDOW........................................................................110

11.9.1 ChyTV Schedule Command Buttons...................................................110

12 TAG REFERENCE...........................................................................................112

12.1 SUPPORTED TAGS ...........................................................................................112

13 APPENDIX..........................................................................................................122

13.1 WARNINGS AND DISCLAIMERS.....................................................................122

13.2 TROUBLESHOOTING........................................................................................124

13.3 CHYTVPLUS RACK MOUNT INSTALLATION..............................................125

13.3.1 Single Unit Rack Mount Installation..................................................125

13.3.2 Double Unit Rack Mount Installation................................................125

13.4 CHYTVHARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS.........................................................127

13.5 CHYTVPLUS HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS...............................................129

13.6 CHYTVPLUS GPIO INTERFACE...................................................................131

13.6.1 ChyTV Plus GPIO Pinout Diagram...................................................131

13.7 CHYTVPLUS RS232 INTERFACE.................................................................132

13.7.1 ChyTV Plus RS232 Pinout Diagram..................................................133

13.8 CHYTVPROGRAMMERS GUIDE....................................................................134

13.8.1 ChyTV Programming Overview..........................................................134

13.8.2 ChyTV Commands.................................................................................134

13.9 INTERNATIONAL APPENDIX...........................................................................143

13.9.1 Changing the Text Used for the Clock Day of Week and Month...143

13.10 WARRANTY..................................................................................................145

1 INTRODUCTION

1Introduction

Welcome to ChyTV™, the next generation in digital signage! This Hardware/Software Setup

Guide illustrates the three main phases of ChyTV setup. When setup is complete, ChyTV is ready

to display your custom-createdpages.

With ChyTV, you're up and running in a flash. CompactFlash®, that is. Your ChyTV comes from

thefactorypre-loaded with a variety of demonstration pages. Once the ChyTV is connected to the

incoming video source and the display TV/monitor, the looping demo can then guide you through

a variety of ChyTV samples and features.

1.1 Getting Started

There are three main setup procedures that must be performed to run ChyTV:

Hardware Connections– Explained in Section 2 (ChyTV), Section 3 (ChyTV Plus) and Section

4 (HD 100 / HD 150).

Software Installation–Explained in Section 5.

ProjectSetup –Explained in Section 6.

1.2 Creating Content

This user guide contains alot of information about creating content for your ChyTV. The

following sections provide tutorials and reference information about using CyhTV Tools,ChyTV

Elements and Microsoft PowerPoint to create pages for display on ChyTV units:

1.2.1 Section 6: ChyTV Overview

This section describes how the ChyTV unit displays pages, how pages are created and organized,

and the various elements that are used in ChyTV pages. Recommended to provide a basic

understanding of the whole process.

1.2.2 Section 7: ChyTV Author Quick Start Tutorial

For those who want to jump right in, the Quick Start Tutorial is a step-by-step guide that takes you

from creating a project through creating a page in ChyTV Author, then scheduling the page for

display on the ChyTV unit.

1.2.3 Section 8: PowerPoint Quick Start Tutorial

The PowerPoint Quick Start Tutorial is a step-by-step guide that takes you from creating a project

through creating a page using Microsoft PowerPoint and ChyTV Tools, then scheduling the page

for display on the ChyTV unit.

1.2.4 Section 9: Manually Creating a Page Using PowerPoint

This section describes, in depth, the procedures used to create pages in the Quick Start Tutorial.

Recommended for a deeper understanding of how data and tags are used in PowerPoint.

1.2.5 Section 10: ChyTV Elements Reference

The ChyTV Elements Reference describes in detail all of the buttons in the ChyTV Elements

PowerPoint Plug-in.

1 INTRODUCTION

1.2.6 Section 11: ChyTV Tools Reference

This section describes in detail all of the menus, windows and controls available in ChyTV tools.

2 CHYTV HARDWARE SETUP

2ChyTV Hardware Setup

2.1 Introduction

ChyTV-IP

ChyTV-IP2

The ChyTV system mixes incoming video with graphics created using ChyTV Tools, and outputs

the mixed video to a television set or video monitor. The ChyTV system should be connected

between an external TV tuner, such as a cable box or VCR, and a television set or video monitor.

It can also be connected between a direct composite video source, such as a DVD player or VCR,

and the television or video monitor.

IMPORTANT!!!! Please note that an RF (antenna), cable or satellite source cannot be connected

directly into the ChyTV system! The signal fed to the ChyTV system must be a video source from

a cable/satellite box or a VCR/DVD player, or originate from a direct composite source such as

VCR/DVD playback output, a video camera or some other type of composite video feed.

2 CHYTV HARDWARE SETUP

2.2 Hardware Connection

2.2.1 USB Version Connection Diagram

2.2.2 Ethernet Version Connection Diagram

When using an RF video source, such as cable or satellite, an external tuner is required. A

television's internal tuner cannot be used. This is because the ChyTV unit must be provided with a

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