It can be useful to split up your screens with part of Live TV, HDMI in, and part display of other information.
What You'll Need
- An OptiSigns Standard plan or higher.
- NOTE: Running the Live TV app only requires a Standard plan, but running the Live TV with Ads app requires an Engage plan or higher.
- Video source. This is most commonly a TV set-top box, but could be anything from a video game console to a streaming device.
- USB video capture card. This transforms the video into a usable format for the OptiSigns Live TV app.
- Device running OptiSigns. Currently, we only support Windows PCs (with an Intel i5 CPU at minimum) and OptiSigns Pro or ProMax players. Ensure you are running the latest version of the OptiSigns app.
- A screen to display it on.
You'll connect it up in this fashion: Video Source → USB Capture Card → Player / PC → Screen.
Let's jump in and get started:
Then go to https://app.optisigns.com/
Click Files/Assets -> Apps
Then find the Live TV app:
Give it a name & click Save
Then you can put this TV app in a Playlist or a Zone of your SplitScreen.
That's all! Congratulations!
When you assign the SplitScreen to your WIndows Mini PC it will play the video input and other splitscreen content.
Troubleshooting common problems:
1) Make sure your USB device is working and showing content in other apps like OBS Streaming.
2) Troubleshoot, change video, audio sources by go to OptiSigns Player's side menu select Live TV input sources.
And select the correct input source.
If you have any additional questions, concerns or any feedback about OptiSigns, feel free to reach out to our support team at support@optisigns.com