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Chapter 18 Schedule Media to Play and Commands to Run

Concepts

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Or, you can set them to run automatically from a schedule, with or without recurrence. (We call this method “Play in Future.”)

Topics in this section tell you how to plan deliveries of assets and commands that you prepare for DMPs.

The schedule can manage multiple deployments simultaneously and — assuming that a DMP has a fast network connection and you send deployments to it that are not mutually exclusive — a DMP can receive multiple deployments simultaneously.

You can schedule future time slots for elements that you will deploy once or repeatedly to:

•One registered DMP, if it belongs to a DMP group which does not contain any other DMPs.

•Multiple registered DMPs that all use the same one DMP group as their parent.

•All of your registered external (FTP) deployment servers; the schedule treats all of your registered external servers identically.

Understand Future Deployments for Presentations

You can deploy only one presentation at a time if the assets that it uses should be stored directly on your DMPs. To check the free space on the SD memory card in a DMP, choose Digital Media Players > DMP Manager, and then look in the DMP List table for the amounts of free space in internal and external storage. Alternatively, log in to the local instance of DMPDM, and then click Internal Storage.

Understand Time Zones in the Schedule

	Displayed times for deployments in the schedule are relative to the time zone where you deployed your
	DMM appliance, not the time zone where you deployed any DMP, and not the time zone for any other
	locale. You set the time zone value for your DMM appliance when you used AAI to configure it and you
	can use AAI to correct the time zone value if it is wrong.
	Future time slots that the schedule describes will always designate hours in boldface numerals according
	to the UTC time zone offset for the locale where your DMM appliance is installed.
	When you work from any other time zone and view the schedule, this offset will differ from the offset
	at your location and the difference might be confusing. Furthermore, the offset might be confusing even
	when you and your DMM appliance are together in one time zone but you want to schedule time slots
	for a DMP that is in some other time zone.
Tip	In either of these scenarios, you can cause the schedule to designate hours from two time zones simultaneously.
	One of these time zones is always the one for your DMM appliance. To choose the second time zone (whether it is for your personal
	locale or the locale of a DMP), select a named UTC offset option, such as “America/Los Angeles,” from the untitled list above the
	schedule. The schedule is then updated immediately to show designated hours from the second time zone that you selected, in
	addition to the designated hours that it always shows for your DMM appliance.

•Small, plain numerals designate hours for the UTC-offset locale that you selected.

•Large, boldface numerals designate hours for the locale where your DMM appliance is installed.

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