How to Efficiently Restart Applications on a Player
2 min
To debug or restart your application on a BrightSign player:
- Connect to the player using SSH or Telnet:
- Enable SSH or Telnet from the DWS. See Diagnostic Web Server (DWS).
- Enable SSH programmatically. See Useful Telnet and SSH flags.
- Access SSH. See Accessing Telnet.
- Access the BrightSign shell (see Accessing the BrightSign Shell). Once connected, you will see the BrightSign> command prompt. To access the shell from the BrightScript debugger, type exit.
- Insert an SD card.
- Enter cd sd: at the prompt to switch to the SD card directory.
- On a new line, run script autorun.brs to start your application. This will reload the autorun.brs file, effectively breaking down and rebuilding your HTML/Chromium application.
For more information about the command line interface and shell commands, see BrightSign Shell and BrightScript Debugger.
Additional Notes
- Ensure that your network settings allow SSH and Telnet access. Port access should be open for ports 22 and 23 (respectively) unless the port defined by the user is different.
- SSH and Telnet must be enabled on the network.
- If you encounter problems, try power cycling the player or checking the network configurations.