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QUICK START
Quick Start Guide for
Cisco Digital Media Player 4305G
1 Checking the Package Contents
2 Finding a Suitable Location to Set Up Your DMP
3 Participating in a DHCP Network
4 Connecting to a DMP Display
5 Connecting to an AC Socket
6 Checking the LEDs
7 Logging in to DMPDM and Changing its Passwords
8 Configuring Video Output
9 Setting Up Centralized Management
10 Learning About the Remote Control for DMPs
11 Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security
Guidelines
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Revised: July 10, 2008 78-18681-02 Contains Macromedia® Flash™ technology by Adobe Systems, Inc. Copyright 1995-2003 Adobe Systems, Inc. All Rights reserved. Macromedia, Flash, Macromedia Flash, and Macromedia Flash Lite are trademarks or registered trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Note For information about supported features, see the Release Notes for Cisco Digital Media System on Cisco.com. 2
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Glossary Cisco Digital Media System (Cisco DMS) is a family of products and technologies, including the ones that this guide describes. A Digital Media Player (DMP) is a compact, solid state, addressable network device that delivers digital signage content and enterprise TV content to a DMP display, which is any directly attached television screen or other kind of monitor or projector that shows media to an audience. The display might be analog or digital and might be standard-definitio
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Learn More To learn more about DMS products, related technologies, and Cisco in general: Description Go To DMS overview http://www.cisco.com/go/dms Release notes for http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ Cisco DMS products ps6681/prod_release_notes_list.html User documentation http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/p for Cisco DMS s6681/products_documentation_roadm products aps_list.html FAQs and http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/p troubleshooting s6681/prod_troubleshooting_guides_lis t.html C
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1 Checking the Package Contents The product package for one DMP 4305G should contain all of the following: • A proof of purchase certificate that contains important legal information, which you should keep. This quick start guide and other product documentation. One DMP 4305G. Two signal cables: – HDMI – Composite/RCA One AC adapter and four snap-on plugs. If anything is missing from the package or appears to be defective, contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC). 2 Fi
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240V. To understand the supported lengths for different video cable types, see the “Connecting to a DMP Display” section on page 8. Environmental Tolerance Ranges The DMP 4305G is intended for indoor use. 1 Temperature US Customary Unit Modern Metric Unit Min. Max. Min. Max. Operating— 41°F 104°F 5°C 40°C long-term or short-term Nonoperating –4°F 140°F –20°C 60°C or storage 2 Relative Humidity Min. Max. Operating, 20 percent 85 percent nonoperating, and storage 3 Altitude US Customary Uni
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1. Ambient. 2. Noncondensing; ambient. 3. Above sea level. 3 Participating in a DHCP Network The factory default for a DMP 4305G is to obtain its IP address automatically from a DHCP server. If you will deploy your DMP at a physical location that does not have a DHCP server and you must configure your DMP to use a static IP address, complete the “Preconfiguring Your DMP To Run Without a Local DHCP Server” procedure in the user guide on Cisco.com for the version of DMPDM that you use: h
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Step 2 Plug the other end of the Ethernet cable into a network hub, network switch, or router that participates in a DHCP network. 4 Connecting to a DMP Display We recommend that you use a digital display, not analog. For the type of digital display, we recommend LCD, not plasma. Digital signage uses static images more often than it uses full-motion video. Most often, content is web-based or animated in Flash. The nature of these media types means that some pixels are not updated freque
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– MultiSync® LCD4010 – MultiSync® LCD4020 46" — MultiSync® LCD4610 57" — MultiSync® LCD5710 The maximum supported length for a video cable is: 10 feet—Composite/RCA and S-Video 16 feet—HDMI To attach a digital display to your DMP, we recommend that you use the provided HDMI cable for video and audio. However, to attach any of the recommended NEC display models to your DMP, you must combine the HDMI cable with an HDMI-to-DVI adapter (sold separately) for video, and use the provided
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Step 1 On the back of your DMP chassis, do one of the following: If you will connect your DMP to a digital display that has an HDMI interface, plug the male end of the HDMI cable into the HDMI interface on your DMP. If you will connect your DMP to one of the recommended NEC display models that does not have an HDMI interface, do all of the following: – Plug the male end of the HDMI cable into the HDMI interface on your DMP, then connect an HDMI-to-DVI adapter to the other end of
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If you will connect your DMP to an analog display, do all of the following: – Plug the yellow jack on the RCA cable into the CVBS interface on your DMP. – Plug the red jack on the RCA cable into the AUDIO/RIGHT interface on your DMP. – Plug the white jack into the AUDIO/LEFT interface on your DMP. Step 2 Connect the other end of the cable (or cables) to the corresponding interface (or interfaces) on your DMP display. Step 3 If the DMP display is not already turned on, turn it on now
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Step 1 Assemble the DMP power cord: a. Identify the correct plug type for your region (U.S., E.U., U.K., or Australia). b. Snap that plug into the AC adapter. Step 2 Connect the DC barrel connector to the 5V DC power supply on the DMP chassis. Step 3 Connect to an AC electrical outlet that you know is grounded, and that uses the correct voltage level for your locale. Supported levels range from 100V to 240V. To protect your DMP from electrical surges, we recommend that you use a surge pr
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The LEDs tell you if your DMP has power and if it has obtained an IP address. A solid green LED indicates that a power source is available. A solid red LED indicates that your DMP is trying to obtain an IP address. After your DMP has an IP address, it turns off the red LED. The LEDs do not blink unless they are exposed to infrared signal interference. 7 Logging in to DMPDM and Changing its Passwords Step 1 When your DMP display shows the Cisco logo and shows an IP address for your
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Tip To reconfigure this splash screen in the future to persist for less than or more than the factory-default duration of 30 seconds, select Settings > Browser, enter a new duration in milliseconds in the Splash Screen Display Time (in milliseconds) field, then click Apply. Next, select Administration > Save Configuration, then click Save. 14
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Step 2 Point your browser to the IP address that you wrote down. Step 3 At the login prompt for DMPDM, to log in as the “DMP Web Account” user, enter the username admin and the password default. Caution Security in your network might be compromised unless you change the factory-default passwords in DMPDM for both of these: The DMP Web Account user. The DMP Service Account user. To protect your network against this vulnerability, you must complete the rest of this procedure. If you h
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DMP Service Account is a user account with FTP login privileges. (The DMP Service Account account is available only when the FTP service is enabled on a DMP.) Alternatively, if you have many DMPs and will manage them centrally, you can use the fully licensed DMM-DSM software on your DMM appliance to change both of these passwords globally for all of the DMPs that you have added to a DMP group. Before you can use DMM-DSM in this way, however, you must first complete the “Setting Up Centr
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To understand URI encoding and its recommended syntax for submitting query strings, see RFC 1630 at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1630. Step 4 To change the DMP Web Account password on one DMP by using DMPDM, select Administration > DMP Web Account. Enter your new password in the Password field, enter it again in the Repeat Password field, then click Apply. Next, select Administration > Save Configuration, then click Save. Alternatively, you can use DMM-DSM to change the password simul
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d. To save the task so that it becomes available for your use, click Submit. e. To send the password changing instruction simultaneously to multiple DMPs in your digital signage network, do the following: – Select Schedules > Play Now. (Alternatively, users of DMM-DSM 4.1.x should select Schedules > Immediate Deployment.) – Select a group from the DMP Groups object selector. – Select the check box for each DMP where the DMP Web Account password should change. – Select from the Select
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made to credentials will prevent your trusted DMM appliance temporarily from communicating with your DMPs. To restore proper communication, you must now repeat Step 3 in the “Setting Up Centralized Management” section on page 23. Step 5 To change the DMP Service Account password on one DMP by using DMPDM, select Administration > DMP Service Account. Enter your new password in the Password field, enter it again in the Repeat Password field, then click Apply. Next, select Administration
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d. To save the task so that it becomes available for your use, click Submit. e. To send the password changing instruction simultaneously to multiple DMPs in your digital signage network, do the following: – Select Schedules > Play Now. (Alternatively, users of DMM-DSM 4.1.x should select Schedules > Immediate Deployment.) – Select a group from the DMP Groups object selector. – Select the check box for each DMP where the DMP Service Account password should change. – Select from the Se
