MediaXtreme MediaZone
Keywest Technology
14563 W. 96
th
Terrace
Lenexa, Kansas 66215
800.331.2019
www.keywesttechnology.com
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23 Mar 2009
Change 06
Ftp Refresh=00:00:30
Local Refresh=
These settings would cause the player access a remote site (anywhere in the world with internet
access) and contact the server named “ftp.myserver.com”, open the folder “mydatafolder” on
that ftp server, and open the text file “my.txt” (remember, could be an Excel file .xls). FTP
servers require usernames and passwords to access the data…these security entries must be made
in Settings.Ini. FTP Refresh will cause the player to check in every thirty seconds if set to
00:00:30 as in the above example.
Long Variable Crawls
At times, variable data of extended length may be desired. This may be news crawls, stock
tickers, informational crawls, etc…using standard variables is not feasible. The LONG
VARIABLE CRAWLS feature was designed for these type long data strings.
LONG VARIABLE CRAWLS works a bit differently than standard variables in that TEXT
SUBSTITUTION and TOKENS (#RO) are not used, instead the actual name of a CRAWL
PAGE created in MediaCreator5 is the trigger for the system to use dynamic data.
To setup the player for LONG VARIABLE CRAWLS access the SETTINGS.INI file again on
C:\MX5Player\Settings. Open with notepad and scroll down to the [LONG VARIABLE
CRAWLS] division. Simply specify the variable and related page name as follows (multiple
entries are permissible so that multiple crawls may be used):
[Long Variable Crawls]
News_Ticker=news.pag
AirportFeed=airport.pag
Stocks=stocks.pag
The three variable entries are News_Ticker, AirportFeed, and Stocks…each entry is tied to a
MediaCreator5 Crawl Page (news.pag, airport.pag, and stocks.pag respectively).
This still requires a data source. As with the standard local and ftp variables described above,
use Settings.Ini [Data Acquisition] entries to acquire the data. For instance, the settings
NOTE
FTP data acquisition requires a connection over an intranet or the Internet (usually
both). FTP also requires User ID and Passwords. All entries in SETTINGS.INI must
be exact…any error will cause a failure to acquire data. If data is not coming through
properly, check all of these settings first—they may be confirmed by manually
accessing the FTP site from any PC