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Technical Note

The standalone mode backup tool

This document is intended as a guide for content creators and installers that want to duplicate applications that are used in media players that are operated in standalone mode. The reader is presumed to have knowledge of the MultiQ Media players operated in standalone mode.

This guide applies to products with firmware version 3.6 or later.

Important!

MultiQ Products AB provides no guarantee that any of the examples shown in this document will work for any particular application or that the descriptions will be valid for future firmware or product versions.

MultiQ Products AB cannot and will not be held liable for any damage inflicted to any product as a result of the examples or instructions mentioned in this document.

MultiQ Products AB reserves the right to make changes to this document and to product specifications without prior notice.

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Technical Note – The Standalone Mode Backup Tool, Version 1, 9/8/2012 2

1 Revision history

A description of changes with revision number will be noted in the revision log below:

Version Date Comments

1.00 2012-08-09 Initial version

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2 Introduction

The standalone backup tool is an executable tarball file “createBackup.tgz”, that is used to copy the content and applications of a media player, media monitor or media kiosk operating in standalone mode to an executable tarball file “backup.tgz”. When the “backup.tgz” tarball file is executed in a second standalone media player, this unit becomes a clone of the first one. Using the backup tool you never need to set up a standalone application more than once and you can also keep safe backups of your standalone projects.

In this technical note the Client software 3.9 is used with Google Chrome as browser. The user interface may look slightly different in previous versions of the client software and with other web browsers.

Of course you can make as many clones of the original unit as you wish. The backup.tgz files can easily be mailed to other installers or be put on websites for easy download. The backup tool greatly increase the possibilities to use the standalone mode for extensive and complex applications since the applications only need to be setup once and can then be duplicated into an unlimited number of units.

Figure 1. The “createBackup.tgz” file includes software that creates the “backup.tgz” file that can be used to create an unlimited number of clones of the application of the original standalone unit.

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Note that in order to make a copy of the original unit, the second unit needs to have the same client software version as the original unit. Also note that media players in standalone mode lose their content if the software is updated.

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3 To use the standalone backup tool

To create a backup.tgz file first download the “createBackup.tgz” file to your computer from the MultiQ website.

3.1 Creating a “backup.tgz” file for your original application

Go to the “Import” tab of the unit that is to be copied. Click the “Add” button in the “Tarball installers” section.

Figure 2. The tarball is added to the “Tarball installers” section of the “Import” tab.

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Technical Note – The Standalone Mode Backup Tool, Version 1, 9/8/2012 6 Figure 3. Select and upload the “createBackup.tgz” file to the Tarball installers” section of the “Extensions”

menu of the “Import” tab.

Browse to the location of the “createBackup.tgz” file and select and upload the file to the media player. As soon as the tarball is uploaded it starts to run an application on the media player. This application creates a tarball file named “backup.tgz”. It takes some time for the backup file to be created.

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After a while you can try to retrieve the “backup.tgz” file from the media player by browsing to the IP address of your media player followed by “/backup.tgz”, as an example:

http://192.168.118.116/backup.tgz

The “backup.tgz” file will now be downloaded to your “Download” folder. Note that you may have to approve the download in a dialog box before proceeding.

Figure 4. The “backup.tgz” file contains a copy of your standalone application and content.

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Note that the “createBackup.tgz” file is only run once after each installation. If you wish to make an updated backup.tgz file from your original application you first need to delete the

“createBackup.tgz” file before installing it again.

Figure 5. To make an updated “backup.tgz” file you first have to remove and then reinstall the

“createBackup.tgz” file. This picture shows how to select and delete the “createBackup.tgz” file.

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After a few minutes you can download a new “backup.tgz” file that contains a copy of your updated application.

3.2 Installing the “backup.tgz” file on a second unit

Once you have retrieved the “backup.tgz” file it can be used to create a clone of the original unit on a second media player that runs in standalone mode.

Login to the second unit and click the “Add” button in the “Tarball installers” section of the “Import”

tab.

Figure 6. Add the “backup.tgz” tarball file to the “Tarball installers” section of the “Extensions” menu of the

“Import” tab of the second unit.

Once the “backup.tgz” tarball file has been added to the second unit it will reboot and after a while you will have a cone of the first unit up and running.

MultiQ Products AB reserves the right to make changes to this document and to product specifications without prior notice.

Technical Note

The standalone mode backup tool

Table of Contents

1 Revision history

2 Introduction

3 To use the standalone backup tool

3.1 Creating a “backup.tgz” file for your original application

3.2 Installing the “backup.tgz” file on a second unit