Play Showreel or Fullscreen Layout on Startup

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Bryan Zhu

Is it possible to automatically play a showreel (or display a Layout in fullscreen) upon application startup? I currently have the desktop client set to start upon boot (Ubuntu 18.04), but I'd like to also have one of my showreels automatically play without me having to click the "Play Showreel" button.

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    Ichiro

    Hi Bryan,

    Thanks for your suggestions. At the moment, Nx Witness supports manually launch the Showreel.
    We don't have the function to automatically execute showreel or full screen at the moment.

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    Ichiro

    BTW, your request would be directed to the "NEW FEATURE IDEA" section.
    Our product team would check and review it.
    Thanks.

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    Luke McFadden

    This would be a great feature.  For us, we have some locations with a LOT of cameras, but the majority of our client hardware is low end.  So we like to utilize Showreels to display a smaller number of cameras.  If we could autolaunch them, it would be great.  We would use this on client machines on secondary screens, as well as some viewing stations that don't have any interaction other than observation

     

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    Glynn Thomas

    I've got this working on a client's machine. Linux running on an Intel nuc with client 4.0.3 (latest patch), running 4.0 (current release version) on the server. As long as we have showreel running, it goes straight back to showreel after a restart

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    Bryan Zhu

    That's great to hear Glynn! Was there anything specific you needed to do to set that up?

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    Glynn Thomas

    Being on a Linux OS, I added Nx Client to start up, ensured the unit auto login upon start up, ticked Nx client auto login.

    Created a new showreel, saved it, and then ran it, so its active.

    As long as its active upon the unit being powered off, it'll start up again.

    If you close the app by 'disconnect from server', it will not restart on showreel when reopened

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    Hi Glynn, Brian,

    Thanks for the suggestion. We'll try to get it fixed in the 4.2 version.

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    VMS-19175

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    Luke McFadden

    Has there been any progress here?  Are we able to auto-launch showreels from the CLI?

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    Loïc TONON
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    Hi all,

    One customer has exactly the same question.
    The main difference : He have 3 screen and he already use cli to force nx opening on screen 1 or 2 ,etc ...

    He needs to start showreel 1 on screen 1, showreel 2 on screen 2, and a fixed layout on screen 3.
    Currently only the last part is possible (screen 3, using --layout-name= and --screen=)

    Any way to start "Nx witness" with CLI to do that ?
    With a command prompt like :
    HD Witness.exe" --auth=http://admin:1234@192.168.1.200:7001 --showreel=showreelname:autostart=true

    Best regards

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    Loïc TONON

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    Hi Norman,

    What do you think about this, please ?

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    Norman - Nx Support

    Hi Loïc TONON,

    At this time, there isn't an available command line option to begin the client with the showreel.

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    Loïc TONON

    Hi Norman,

    Thanks for your reply.

    Do you think you could plan to add it in future updates ?

    Br

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    Norman - Nx Support

    Dear Loïc TONON

    Thank you. While I understand your desire for certain features, the decision to include them in our product ultimately lies with our dedicated product team. They carefully review all feedback provided in the feature feedback section, and take into consideration every request for future releases.

    Please know that our team always strives to provide the best possible experience for our users, but we do face certain limitations in resources and release cycles that may impact our ability to accommodate all requests. Nevertheless, please be assured that your feedback is invaluable to us as we continue to improve and evolve our product.

    Thank you for your understanding, and please don't hesitate to reach out to us if you have any further questions or concerns.

    Best regards.

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