Requirements before you begin:
A BrightSign device that is activated against a valid Signagelive licence
A keyboard and mouse to connect to your device
Picture this: you're in a store, and a screen is showing content. This screen happens to be a touchscreen, so you go and interact with it, and as soon as you do, the content that was previously showing on-screen changes to some other interactive content. Once you've finished interacting with the screen, after some time it falls back to the default content that was showing before you touched it. This is the type of scenario that can be achieved with Interactive Kiosk Mode.
When a Signagelive Player is in Interactive Kiosk Mode, a default/published schedule will show on your media player. As soon as this screen is interacted with (this could be a mouse click or physical touch screen), a new schedule will play. When the screen is no longer being interacted with, it will fall back to its default/"idle" schedule.
Hopefully, this paints a picture of what Interactive Kiosk Mode is, so it's time for you to read on and learn how to use it!
Enabling Interactive Kiosk Mode
You can enable or disable Interactive Kiosk Mode on your BrightSign Player at any time. To do so:
Attach a keyboard and mouse to your BrightSign Player that is already running Signagelive.
Press CTRL + S to open the Settings menu.
Enable the checkbox for interactive kiosk mode.
Set the desired inactivity timeout.
Scheduling interactive content to your kiosk
All default and scheduled content that is scheduled to your player will play as normal while the kiosk is in an idle state (not being used).
You will need to publish an interrupt to your player, which is triggered automatically in Signagelive when someone interacts with the kiosk. In order to publish an interrupt for the interactive content that shows on the player when it is being used:
In Signagelive, go to Content > Publish
Choose to show the content As The Result of a Trigger.
Select to show the interrupt With a key press and on the next screen select Key T.
You do not need to set a key to stop the interrupt and you can either choose to play to the length of the asset or playlist or for a specified duration.
On the next screen choose the asset, playlist, or layout that you would like to show on the kiosk while it is in an active state.
Select your player and press Publish.
Once the content has successfully published, you can trigger the interrupt by either touching the screen (if touchscreen is supported on your hardware) or by clicking an attached mouse.
Please Note
The interrupt trigger key must be set to T as there is no option in Signagelive for kiosk-specific interrupts at this time. Although it is set to T, the keyboard is not supported, so you will need to use the mouse or a touchscreen as mentioned above.