Groups.xml

It is used by the Players and the Acquire Advanced Editor.

Players are placed in groups.

Each Player has a number of outputs.

An annotated example is shown below.

⚠️This file is created by the Acquire Advanced Configuration app and should not be edited manually

<!--

Groups

cms_datetimeformat: format of datetime in the CMS row summary

(default "MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm")

cms_grouplistcellwidth,

cms_grouplistcellheight: size of cells in group list screens (Status & Player Switcher)

(default 150 x 80)

tcp: true/false, use TCP communication, otherwise UDP

debug:extra logging etc. in the Editor

cms_screenshotallscreens:screenshots on CMS status screen gets all screens? else just main

cms_screenshotquality:if screenshots on CMS status screen

cms_addplayerstop2p:add new players to rdserver.ini

-->

<!--

Group

- A group of players, eg: "all columns" or "pilon" or something

- Each group of players can have one or more playlists

- For Example, for Cosmo: Lobby, Talon, Chelsea

unique!

cms_playlistrowheight: this group's playlist's row height in the CMS (px)

(default 80)

lat,

lng:latitude/longitude of this group

cms_updatedbyeditor:set by editor when adding visualisations etc.

-->

<!--

Player

- A Player PC

- In the CMS, each player is one column in the group's playlist

- Player Settings:

id: Unique Player ID (players use kiosk id which can be

overriden by a playerid.txt in the neversend folder)

server: for TCP mode, the players' TCP server address

port: for TCP mode, the player's TCP server port (def. -1)

portrs: for TCP connection to Remote Screen (currently not exposed in Setup)

backupplayerid: ID of the backup player that will impersonate "id" if the

"id" stops working

backupserver: as "server" but for backup player

backupport: as "port" but for backup player

backupportrs: as "portrs" but for backup player

sync: Sync Mode (1=Transmitter)

If = 1 then other players in this group will sync there

playback with this player.

cms_playlistcolwidth: the player's column width in the Editor (px)

(default 100)

NOTE: the outputs are shown scaled down to fit in the Editor

playlist row cell (cms_playlistcolwidth x

cms_playlistcolheight) so, those sizes must be large

enough to accomodate all outputs.

cms_isnew: for internal Setup app used only: the player is new so do special one-off stuff

and mark as not new

-->

<!--

Player Output

- In the CMS, each output will be one media drop-point in a column of the

group's playlist

- Its up to the player to actually work out how to output this,

but if a player output several videos per line in the playlist they are

defined here

- Player Output Settings:

side", this must match on the player config file

width: The width of the output in pixels

height: The height of the output in pixels

cms_allowanysizemedia: in the Editor you can normally only drop media into an

output if it has the same dims as that output.

setting this to true allows ANY size media to be

dropped on the output

(default=false)

cms_locked: do not edit in the Configuration app (toggled in that app)

cms_linksizes: the Configuration app, the this content size always matches the output size

cms_testCardFile: a test card image (grid+circles+text) to use for this output when the Editor makes the test playlist

created\saved by the config app and sized to the actual output

cms_swatchFile: an colour swatch image (HLS grid) to use for this output when the Editor makes the test playlist

created\saved by the config app and sized to the output's content size

-->

</player>

</group>

</groups>

Groups.xml

The groups.xml describes all of the players on your system.