Comments on: Samsung’s MagicNet Signage Solution

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:38:01 +0000

I’m using a Samsung 460PN and I would like to upgrade the embedded operating system. Does anyone know how???

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:26:15 +0000

Has anyone figured out how to schedule a screen containing a powerpoint and then a screen containing a video and then have the ability to loop the two together all day long one after the other without having to make a lot of scheduling entries?

By: Mark Wheeler

Mark Wheeler — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:37:12 +0000

Thanks Larry

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:03:17 +0000

I’m using a 460PXN.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:02:52 +0000

Can anyone tell me why I can see my MagicNet Booting up on the screen and then it asks for a Boot agent?

By: Larry Doyle

Larry Doyle — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:19:54 +0000

Mark,

Short answer is yes. MagicNet will allow an HTML area if you have a URL. You also can pick just part of an HTML page to display if you know the coorindates.

By: Mark Wheeler

Mark Wheeler — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:15:14 +0000

Hi there Magic Net gurus.

Am interested in buying a couple of 400dxns with Magic Net ostensibly to display real-time production schedules.

These schedules could be presented in a variety of formats, but at the moment I’m favouring using html, so the first question is do these screens support this, and is it possible to automatically publish the URL to the monitor using Magic Net? Does anyone have any comments about the rendering of web pages? Essentially, the page will be simple HTML with some basic CSS for presentation so pretty much any browser should be able to handle it.

Also, those of you looking for help, I found the following info on the Hoffman Video website:

Basic explanation (PDF): http://www.hoffmanvideo.com/Website_Management/fileuploader/fileDrop/MagicNet%20Presentation%20S.pdf
More detailed guide (PDF): http://www.hoffmanvideo.com/Website_Management/fileuploader/fileDrop/magicnet_intro.pdf

Cheers,

Mark

By: Larry Doyle

Larry Doyle — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:11:19 +0000

Ted: I’m not sure about PXN, but on a DXN you can install the PowerPoint 2007 viewer and use a USB drive to upload the PP 2007 file. (At least, it works in practice.) MagicNet will only look for .ppt files in the Library.

Tim: It sounds like you have the screens set to Player rather than Scheduler. Player requires the MagicNet server to constantly run; Scheduler will load the screens and schedule to the display without needing the MagicNet server operational. It took me a while to figure that out. I don’t have MagicNet in front of me, but I believe the setting is under Remote Management –> MagicNet.

By: Ted Froats

Ted Froats — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:27:48 +0000

We are running 10 Samsung 400pxn’s with MagicNet and, with a few gliches, it has been running pretty good. There are 2 main concerns though:

1. It only comes preloaded with 7 fonts (and 2 of them are wingdings). If you try to show powerpoint slides with other fonts, the font substitutions will often distort the image on the display.

2. They can only read PowerPoint 2003 (and other Office 2003) documents. I can’t find an upgrade to allow it to read PowerPoint 2007 slides. Everytime we create a slide show for the panels, we have to back-save it to PowerPoint 2003.

By: Pierre Tchang

Pierre Tchang — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:55:26 +0000

We have 400pn displays from a while back. each one of the displays have Win CE as OS and MagicNet2 software. My concern is that I am unable to detect any displays at all. I have all configured properly with the same server name, each one of them have their own IPs. I am able to ping them on the network and browse online from the displays. I tried to look for the EWF but to no avail as I do not have any OPTIONS under SETUP.

any suggestions?