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:
1. Enable SSH or Telnet from the DWS. See Diagnostic Web Server Diagnostics Resource.
2. Enable SSH programmatically. See Enabling the BrightSign Shell.
3. Access SSH. See BrightSign Shell Access.
Access the BrightSign shell (see Methods to access 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 details about using the CLI and shell commands, see the following documentation:

Additional Notes

Ensure that your network settings allow SSH andTelnet 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.