Player Group Basics

Player Groups are used to

• Organize into Groups for playlist assignment, reporting, and dashboard views.

  • Content can be assigned to a Player Group instead of individual players

• Control Access to the Player

  • Player Groups can be set so that only members of specific User Groups can see the players

    • Users can not assign or edit the playlist for a Player in a Player Group they do not have access to

    • Administrators in Korbyt can only use the management tools on players in the player groups to which they have access.

• Player Groups are also how Alerts and Permissions for players can be set

  • The CMS can send emails to selected users when a member of a Player Group has a Status Change (Active to Inactive, for example)

Creating Player Groups

To view player groups

• Click on the Mega Menu in the upper left, in the Device Management column, click Player Groups

  

• This screen shows player groups and can be viewed as a List or as Cards

  • Selected in the upper right

Individual Players can be member of Multiple Groups

Player Group Types

Player Groups can either be Static or Dynamic

• Static Player Groups are manually managed to add or remove players as members

  • Membership is managed “by hand” using check boxes

• Dynamic Player Groups select their members based on rules that examine Player Meta Data

  • Players become members by having Metadata that matches the group’s criteria

    

Creating Player Groups

To create a new player group

• Click Add Player Group.
  

  

• Provide the necessary information in the Details section.

  

  • Group Name, and optional Description and Tags

• Select Add Static Players or Add Dynamic Rule

  • Add Static Players

    • Click the check boxes to select a player to be a member of the group

      

  • or

  • Add Dynamic Rule

    • Use the Dropdowns to Select the Field, Operator, and Value

      

    • If there are multiple operations, you can select if they use the AND or OR logical connector

  • Click the Save button in the upper right

    • This will close the window

Player Group View Options

On the Player Groups Screen, you can view the Groups in either List or Card View, similar to viewing players.

Viewing Players In a Group

You can also view details of specific players in a group

• Click on the Folder icon in the upper right

  • This will open the Groups on the left side

• Click on the group that you want to see the members of

  • This list of players can also be viewed as a group of card tiles

Player Group Actions and Settings

Clicking the Pencil for a player group opens the Edit Player Group window which allows you to change group membership, but also control other settings and actions for the group

Player Group Actions

Similar to Player Actions, Player Group Actions allow you to send a command to the players to carry out a specific behavior.

The specific Actions available will vary based on the type of players in the Player Group

Groups that are the same player operating system offer more Actions than mixed OS groups

These commands require that the Player is Active to carry out. Commands sent to Inactive Players will wait until the player becomes active again.

Player Group Blackout / Sleep Schedule

Blackout and Sleep Commands are not supported on all Players

• Blackout - Sets a time when the player will not perform normal Check-In behavior. Can be helpful if there are times when network traffic is critical and slow. Will stop content updates from happening during the Blackout period

• Sleep Schedule - Sets a time when the player unit will go into a sleep mode. The Screen behavior and programming will decide what shows when the Media Player goes to a sleep state. Most will also enter a power save mode, but that is not guaranteed

Player Permissions

Player Group Permissions is a way to control which users can view, edit and schedule content to specific players.

The Default Setting for a Tenant is that Player Group Permissions is turned off.
If you would like to use Player Group Permissions the Feature has to be enabled in your Tenant’s Settings (Gear Icon)

To Enable Player Group Permissions

• First, open the Tenant Settings, by clicking on the Gear Icon in the upper Right

  

  • Select the Signaget tab

  • Click to the toggle to Enable Permissions on Player Groups

    

• Click the Save button int he upper right

Now that Player Group Permission is turned on, it will be a section on the right in the Edit Player Group screen

To Set a Player Group Permission

• Expand the Permissions section to the right of the Player Group

  

• Disable Global Access,

• You will see that Tenant Administrator is a group that checks itself

  • Tenant Administrators will always have access to all areas of Korbyt

• Then select the other Groups that you wish to have access to the players that are members of this group

  

• The users who are not in the groups selected will not be able to see the members of this player group or edit playlists that are assigned to the players in the group

  • User Groups are created by System Administrators, for more information see How To Manage CMS Users And User Groups

• Click the Save button in the upper right

Player Notifications

Korbyt supports alerting Content Management System (CMS) Users if a media player changes status becoming Inactive or Active.

This will require a Player Group to be created, as Notification is a setting available in a Player Group.

To create a Player Notification

• In the Player Group, expand the Player Notification Recipient section

• In this section, you can specify which users get notified about the player events and through what communication channels

  

• The Email communication channel sends an email from “noreply@korbyt.com” through Korbyt email services and is the only channel supported without customized settings

  • Other channels will require configuration in the Tenant Settings > Delivery

• Player Status Changes (going from Active to Inactive) is a Default message

  • Other Status messages are options and will require compatible hardware

If you would like the email to be sent to a group email address, simply add a user to Korbty with that email address. You can then select tham as the recipient of the emails

Content Assigned

This area shows content that has been assigned to the player group through Playlists

Content assigned to the group can be removed from the group with the Red X

Install Scriptlets

Scriptlets are small sections of code that can be installed into a player to make it act in a custom way that is not a normally supported option

Scriplets, by their nature, are custom and have to be matched to the specific player and end goal