AMX IS-SPX-1000/1300 manual Configure NTP Through the Http Interface, Administration Date/Time

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Synchronized Content

The IS-SPX Player comes pre-configured with some public NTP servers, which are fine to regulate local date and time, but with the following limitations:

Time precision around 200 milliseconds.

The firewall needs to let NTP traffic through (UDP port 123).

Synchronized content playback across several screens requires higher precision and reliability.

When using the IS-SPX Player in a multiscreen display scenario, the time precision between the IS-SPX Player must be increased. Increasing the time precision may be done with one of these four options:

Configure a local or ISP provided NTP server Use a third party hardware plug & play server Use a software based NTP server on a PC

Use one IS-SPX Player as NTP server for the other IS-SPX Player.

Configure NTP Through the HTTP Interface

Open your IS-SPX Player’s Browser-Based Configuration Pages and choose the Date/Time tab on the left, and clicking on the Time Sources tab. The Data/Time configuration page for the IS-SPX-1300 is shown in FIG. 67 (the options on this

page are the same for IS-SPX-1000 Players):

FIG. 67 Administration - Date/Time page

Once you are on the Date/Time configuration page, do the following:

1.Make sure the NTP Server button is selected.

2.Insert the address of your NTP server(s). Leave the Monitor only options unchecked. This option is needed only for advanced configurations.

3.Leave the “Pause device and startup” to “0 s”. If your IS-SPX Player is using a local NTP server, you can increase this value to ensure that your device will boot after your server, in case of power loss or other circumstances.

4.Click on Apply to enable the new configuration

After you have configured all your devices with your local NTP server(s), they are ready to play synchronized content.

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