Digital Signage Major Improvements
Over the past many months we've made significant improvements to our Digital Signage product. The software is more robust, easier to use, and with our new Android Signage, we can now offer a Stick version of the player at a very low cost. Below is a list of the significant items.
It's New - Digital Signage for Android!
We now offer a Digital Signage app for Android, and as a result now offer
Signage on a Stick at a very low cost. The plugs directly in your TV's HDMI port and uses Wifi for its Internet connection, It's small, hidden behind your TV, is low cost and coordinates beautifully with signing scheduling inside myumix.com.
Instant Updates
We have employed new technology on our servers and signage players that takes the changes you make inside myumix.com and applies them immediately. Change an image, a color, text...and your signage players will get the changes right after you press save.
Streamlined User Interface
We have improved the Presentations user Interface to make it more intuitive and easier for all customers to get fast, easy results in creating or updating their digital signage.
Less Reliance on a Live Internet Connection
We lowered the player's dependency on a live internet connection. The biggest benefit of relates to our weather widget. In the event your internet connection or the weather widget service (we use a third party weather feed) is temporarily down - your player will not be impacted - unless either is down for an extended period.
Player Software Versioning
- Windows - Versioning on the updated player begins with 8.2.
- Android - Versioning begins with 7.2.
Important Changes with the New Signage App Installed on your Windows PC
- The player serial number now begins with "UM" instead of CRC.
- If you are using a Windows PC with our Windows Signage app, the old version will need to be uninstalled and the new version installed fresh.
- On Windows, the new player requires
dotnet Core 3.1 Desktop runtime. The installer automatically links to it for an X64
processor. This provides improved compatibility with Windows 10 and 11.
- A fresh install to this player is required in order to get software updates we publish automatically without your intervention.
- On Windows, the program setup location for installation is now in AppData, not in Program Files.
What Stays the Same
In short, the process of using UMix Digital Signage remains unchanged. While we did streamline the UI to make it even easier and more intuitive to use, the overall process of scheduling remains familiar to you - as it continues to parallel our music and message scheduling processes.
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