How to Efficiently Restart Applications on a Player

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) docid\ qxt4yhey7iej m9dh73wm enable ssh programmatically see brightsign shell docid\ fxxyu9jmocutc6xe2p7l2 access ssh see brightsign shell docid\ fxxyu9jmocutc6xe2p7l2 access the brightsign shell (see brightsign shell docid\ fxxyu9jmocutc6xe2p7l2 ) 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 docid\ fxxyu9jmocutc6xe2p7l2 and brightscript debugger docid\ nwbqjwdo43dysqmhzyscl 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