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 Diagnostics Resource.
Enable SSH programmatically. See Enabling the BrightSign Shell.
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, typeexit
.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 and BrightScript Debugger.
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.