Show a golf group's replay on the club screens

A camera sees a group arrive on the tee. The Nx recorder tells the bridge. When the group leaves, the bridge cuts a clip of the last few minutes, puts it into Xibo, and tells the club screen to play it. The screen then goes back to its normal content.

What the screen does

The screen normally plays its always-running layout (your ads or club content). When a clip is ready, the bridge sends a trigger code. The always-running layout has an action listening for that code, which switches the screen to the event layout. The event layout plays the clip once, then the screen returns to its normal schedule.

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Have these ready. The first four are needed once per club; the last two for every new feed.

• The bridge dashboard address and its password, from your administrator.
• An admin login for the Xibo CMS.
• The Nx server address, plus an Nx user and password with access to the cameras.
• The Xibo display (screen) is switched on and shows as logged in in the CMS.
• A short MP4 to use as the placeholder video. Any clip works; it is replaced by the first replay.
• Nx admin access, to add two event rules per trigger camera.

Do 2.2 to 2.5 once for each target: usually once per group of screens that shows its own replay. The screenshots are from the club's own CMS (Xibo 4.5). Click any picture to see it full size.

2.1 Sign in to the CMS

1. Open the CMS address in a browser, for example https://cms.glfn.com.au, and sign in with an admin account.

2.2 Upload the placeholder video

1. Library → Media → Add Media

   Upload a short MP4 and give it a clear name, such as hole2-clip. Any clip works: the first replay replaces it.

2. Find it in the list and note the number in the ID column. This is the placeholder media ID.

2.3 Create the event layout

This is the layout the screen switches to when a replay is ready.

1. Design → Layouts → Add Layout

   The designer opens on a blank 1920×1080 layout. Name it, for example Hole 2 replay.

2. In the left toolbar, open Video. Click the placeholder video's card, then click the canvas to place it. Drag the handles to size it; leave Scale type on Aspect.

3. Leave its duration alone. The panel says "This video will play for 99 seconds": that is the placeholder's own length. The bridge updates it to each replay's length, so don't set a fixed duration in the Advanced tab.

4. Click the layout's name at the bottom left of the canvas. In Edit Layout, fill in Code Identifier, for example hole2replay. This is the layout code. It stays the same when the layout is edited and republished, so the bridge always finds it. Save.

5. ≡ Options menu (top right) → Publish

   Publish the layout. A screen can't show a draft.

2.4 Add the trigger to the always-running layout

The screen only reacts to a trigger code if the layout currently playing has an action waiting for it. So this action goes on your always-running layout (at Parkwood, Main Layout), not on the event layout.

1. Design → Layouts → your always-running layout → Design

   If a published layout opens read-only, choose Checkout to get an editable draft.

2. Press Interactive Mode at the top so it reads ON. Click the layout's name at the bottom left to select the whole layout, then press Add an Action on the right.

3. Fill in the action as in the table, press Save, then ≡ → Publish.

2.5 Put the event layout on the screen

1. Displays → the screen's ⋮ menu → Assign Layouts

   Add the event layout, so the player downloads it in advance.

2. Note the number in the display's ID column, and check that it shows as logged in (a green tick). This is the display ID.

3. ⋮ menu → Trigger a web hook

   Optional test: enter the trigger code (for example hole2) and send. The screen should switch to the event layout. If it does, Xibo is ready.

What to copy into the dashboard

Open the bridge dashboard, sign in with its password, and go to the Settings tab. The Xibo CMS row is at the top; Sites and Feeds sit side by side below it.

You do this once. The Xibo connection is shared by every site and feed. To change it: press Edit on the Xibo row, press Test connection, then Save. Changes apply from the next clip, with no restart.

A site is one Nx recorder. Add one for each club.

1. Settings → Sites → + Add site

   Fill in the fields below.

2. Press Test connection. It lists the cameras on that recorder. Recording means footage is there to cut; Online — not recording right now is normal outside the camera's recording schedule (for example at night), but check it before relying on that camera.

3. Press Add site.

4. On the new site card, press Show & copy next to Webhook secret. Keep it for the Nx rules in step 6.

A feed is one trigger camera, the camera its clip is cut from, and the screens the replay goes to. This is where you choose the layout, the video and the screens from step 2.

1. Settings → Feeds → + Add feed

   Choose the site first. The camera lists fill in from that site's recorder.

2. Fill in the feed fields, then one target for each event layout this feed should show on.

3. Press Test feed. It checks that the cameras have recent footage, that the layout exists and which video it plays, and whether each screen is online.

4. Press Add feed. The new feed card shows its Start and End addresses with copy buttons.

Feed fields

Target fields

Use + Add target for another event layout. Screens that show the same layout go in one target's display IDs.

The recorder tells the bridge when motion starts and stops on the trigger camera. Each feed needs two rules. The addresses have this shape; copy the real ones from the feed card.

1. Nx Witness client → System Administration → Event Rules → Add

   Create the start rule as below, then the end rule.

2. Select only this feed's trigger camera in each rule. A rule covering several cameras sends them all to one feed.

1. Control → Feed: your new feed → Trigger via webhook

   This switches the screen to the event layout without making a clip. If the screen changes, the Xibo side is wired correctly. If not, see Troubleshooting.

2. Walk in front of the trigger camera for a minute, then leave.

3. Events tab

   You should see Motion start from Nx — feed name when you arrive and Motion END from Nx when you leave.

4. About a minute or two after you leave, a Job success row appears and the screen plays the replay: up to the last three minutes before you left, plus 20 seconds after.

5. Clips tab

   Every replay is kept here to watch back, even if something failed on the Xibo side.

Everything here takes effect from the next replay. Nothing needs restarting.