Within your Signagelive Network, you can add multiple Players at any given time via our user interface. This provides a simple, efficient way to add devices with their naming conventions rather than connecting and activating them one by one to your network.
The following guide will help you work through adding multiple Players to your Signagelive Network in a single process rather than individually. We’ve broken the guide down into different stages to give you the best possible guidance on completing this process without issue.
Step 1 - Requirements before you begin adding Players
The following list are things you will need before you can add Players en masse:
Please log into your Signagelive Account according to the instructions in this guide.
Before you do this process, it would be better for you to know the model/s of your devices before going through the process provided within this article.
You must know the Activation Code/s of your Players/Devices to complete the mass addition of Players via activation via a CSV file.
Step 2 - How to add multiple players via .CSV
The following steps below will help you add one or multiple Players for the first time:
Within your desired Signagelive network, please click on either the Network > Manage menu or the Settings > Licences menu. Either route will take you to the same process, so it is up to you on which of these methods you select.
Within either area, please select the Blue Plus Button (blue button with +) and click Player from the menu that appears when working through this process.
At this stage, you will be presented with a full range of hardware manufacturers and operating systems that apply to the Signagelive Media Player options. Please move on to the next step, assuming you see this information.
Now, from the Add Player to Network window, please select the manufacturer of the player you are going to activate as per the instructions and options provided.
After you've made your choice, at this point, you can either click on the ‘Select your Player Model’ drop-down that is shown, select your choice, and then it will give you full instructions on how to install it below. Alternatively, for this article, you need to select “Upload a . CSV of Player Details”.
Before clicking “Upload a .CSV of Player Details”, if you have not done this process before you will need to click “Download a .CSV Template” and this will download a file named “CSVUploadTemplate.csv” to your local computer.
Please Note: We recommend the use of Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel to open and edit your “CSVUploadTemplate.csv” file. Other applications are available, however these being the most commonly used for such a process.
With the “CSVUploadTemplate.csv” file now open in a suitable software that allows you to read and edit the .CSV (eg, Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel) you will see that we provide you with the following columns that need to be completed per device:
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Please now complete the appropriate information for the number of Players you wish to mass upload to your Signagelive network as per the provided rows. When complete, please ensure your .CSV file is saved. You may need to export this out of your selected editing tool, so ensure you export as a .CSV.
Please Note:
You MUST already have the licenses you want to use within the network already. Adding the licenses to the CSV is only to connect the existing license to the player, not to upload the license to the network.
When completing the tags section each tag will need to be separated by a space to show it is a different tag.
This is an example of how the CSV file could look once it is filled out:
model,hardwareId,licenceCode,name,address1,address2,town,postcode,county,country,activationCode,refCode1,refCode2,refCode3,refCode4,refCode5,refCode6,refCode7,refCode8,refCode9,refCode10,tagsXT1144,ABCD1234,1234-ABCD-1234-ABCD,Player Name,Street 1,Building 1,Saffron Walden,CB10 1UD,Essex,UK,ABC123,reference Code1,reference Code2,reference Code3,reference Code4,reference Code5,reference Code6,reference Code7,reference Code8,reference Code9,reference Code10,Player-tag1 Player-tag2
You will now need to go back and click the “Upload a .CSV of Player Details” button that you previously saw in the process, then select your saved .CSV file and this will proceed to allowing you to check your added information.
Once you have gone through this process you will be provided with a summary of the details in your .CSV in our user interface where you can amend and if you're happy, please now click the Add Player(s) button to proceed.
Your Players will now begin to activate and will soon be showing default Signagelive media shortly. You have successfully completed the process and your Network will now begin to show your connected Players shortly.
Please Note
If on the upload of the CSV you upload fields which are longer than the allowed length they will be shortened automatically.
If players from different manufacturers are being added, you'll need one CSV file per manufacturer.