How to create Video Wall content with Wall Craft App?
With Pickcel's Wall Craft app and signage players, you can set up a digital signage video wall or synchronize content across multiple screens seamlessly.
Follow these steps to configure your video wall without needing a video wall controller.
Hardware Setup :
- Login to your account at console.pickcel.com
- Click on add screen & enter the 6 digit registration code you get on the signage screens
- Register all the screens that are part of the video wall
- Ensure all screens are connected to a router through ethernet
- Register a media player as a master device to play the sync content
- Connect an IP streamer device to Master device via HDMI. This device streams the content in sync across the signage screens.
- Once the devices are ready, go to apps in console and search for wall craft
Creating & Configuring Wall Craft App :
- Search for wall craft in Pickcel's Appstore
- Create wall craft app by providing all the required details
- Enter the ip address which can be found on the IP streamer device
- Enter the coordinates of the content to be played on the screens as explained below
To play sync content on multiple screens :
- To play same content across multiple screens in sync, you need only 1 wall craft app.
- Create Wall craft app with these coordinates - x : 0, y : 0, width : 1, height : 1
- Create a composition with the wall craft app and schedule it to the signage screens where content needs to be played in sync.
- Now create master composition where the actual contents are added to the composition that needs to be played on the screens.
- Publish this master composition to the Master device and the device will start playing the contents in sync through the IP-Streaming device across all screens.
To play content on a Symmetric Video Wall :
- Create wall craft app for each screen with their respect coordinate
- Here is an example for 2*2 video wall setup
- Left_Top_Screen : x : 0, y : 0, width : 0.5, height : 0.5
- Right_Top_Screen : x : 0.5, y : 0, width : 1, height : 0.5
- Left_Bottom_Screen : x : 0, y : 0.5, width : 0.5, height : 1
- Right_Bottom_Screen : x : 0.5, y : 0.5, width : 1, height : 1
- Create a separate compositions for each screen with the associated wall craft app
- Schedule the compositions to the signage screens where content needs to be played in sync
Publishing the content to the screens :
- Create master composition where the actual contents are added to the composition that needs to be played on the screens
- Publish this master composition to the Master device and the device will start playing the contents in sync once the download finishes.
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