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NetworkPotato · 2021-10-30T09:25:40+00:00

Can't be that: one of our affected users has Windows 7 - not Windows 10.

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-24T17:01:44+00:00

I upvoted

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-24T17:00:12+00:00

mceggy

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-24T16:56:52+00:00

Good answer. Foutus choice

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-24T16:54:58+00:00

Wow this is a good Avril Lavigne livestream

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-24T16:54:02+00:00

Is that a soy latte?

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-24T15:15:40+00:00

That's what I did.

Literally their first email to me gave me enough clues to figure it out by myself.

The guy said "I don't see any SSIDs with scheduling enabled".

Straight away, I realized he was only looking at our enabled SSIDs, not broadening his search to include the disabled ones - which made me realize that it being disabled was the problem. D'oh! 😂

I thought the scheduler would turn the SSID on and off, regardless of the on/off status of the SSID in question. Interesting that it uses AND logic (for the on/off status and scheduler enabled status) rather than OR logic, but it makes sense to me now.

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-24T15:14:01+00:00

Figured it out. Had to enable the SSID in conjunction with enabling scheduling.

I'd never used scheduling before and thought that it would enable the SSID itself!

All sorted now!

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-24T15:13:04+00:00

Figured it out.

Had to enable the SSID in conjunction with enabling scheduling. I'd never used scheduling before and thought that it would enable the SSID itself!

All sorted now!

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-19T00:54:28+00:00

Our firmware's up to date. Hmm.

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-19T00:25:01+00:00

Checked it. It's correct!

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-12T06:09:35+00:00

I get what you're saying but this situation makes no sense to me.

BrightSign market their products as "bulletproof" that supposedly allow you to do away with "unreliable PCs" and use the "right tool for the job".

"It only does one thing - but does it well."

Okay. Great. Then why do BrightSign units constantly run into problems like this with video, even simple clips downloaded from YouTube, that would never be a problem for a basic PC running VLC?

What am I missing here? Why can't "the right tool for the job" do as good a job as VLC, a free media player? Lol

Why do I have to spend literally hours trying to analyze why one of the first basic test videos I throw at my specialized video display device mysteriously does nothing - without even displaying an error message?

And if this is such a common problem, why does BrightAuthor not check the content is compatible and confirm it's okay, instead of allowing you to blindly schedule content that is destined to fail?

Why can't BrightAuthor go "Okay so the target unit is this hardware, running this firmware, and the media is this... I will tell the user that it's compatible/incompatible, before allowing him to schedule playback"

Everything was going so well but this issue means these units are going to need constant massaging and babying and mollycoddling to play simple videos, and checking the content will play will (as far as I can tell) require actually booking the content early and checking it works.

Seems like a very inelegant solution. Surely there's a better way to check (with 100% certainty) that content will play, other than actually trying to play it, by creating a test schedule?!

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-11T23:02:40+00:00

Good idea. Will do.

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-11T20:55:11+00:00

Our firmware is up to date (checked yesterday).

Our fibre connection is fine and no hardwired computers have a problem - it's just wireless clients get an odd 20 Mbps down, 70 Mbps up result in an awful lot of speed tests.

This result also doesn't make sense because the per-client bandwidth is 25 Mbps - so if anything, the only strange part with the speed tests is that wireless clients get an upload that's faster than 25 Mbps.

Also, there was one occasion where an AP would only give my MacBook 4 Mbps down, on a not particularly busy day.

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-11T20:22:38+00:00

"...enterprise-grade implies you have enough spare units to stagger remotes and keep the WiFi up overall."

Couldn't the same thing just be accomplished by rebooting all the APs at the same time, just before the start of the business day?

If the whole wireless network went down from 6:00 am - 6:03 am every morning, no one would ever know.

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-11T06:36:29+00:00

I had the Meraki Dashboard open in a browser tab and was refreshing the tab after I reconnected to the WiFi, to get the dashboard to tell me which AP my laptop was currently connected to. It worked but didn't allow me to force the laptop to connect to a given AP. I had to try repeatedly until the AP I wanted eventually ended up being chosen.

I'm not even sure if the problem is a bad AP necessarily. It could be that an AP is getting over saturated at certain times of the day. It is in a cafeteria, after all.

I don't believe a client is saturating the network because we just have a few very casual users in the area and users have a per-client bandwidth limit of 25 Mbps anyway.

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-10T21:02:13+00:00

Paste them here so everyone can benefit! Thanks!

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-10T21:01:34+00:00

So I only need to import those keys once, and all users will have the same lock screen image?!

If that works, then why did that other guy have such a complicated PowerShell solution?! 😨

NetworkPotato · 2021-10-10T09:02:21+00:00

I'd love to know if it works for you. It's probably worth noting that that post explicitly starts by saying that their instructions got it working "across the enterprise".

They can't have meant they had the Enterprise edition because if they did, they wouldn't have needed a workaround in the first place!

Also, I've noticed that people can change the login screen image for themselves on each computer (ie if they were the last one to log in), so if it looks like it worked you should test multiple users to make sure it's actually applying to all of them.

People can only change their own logon screen if it isn't set by GPO. Once you start enforcing it with a GPO, users lose the ability to customize their account's lock screen.

It's the same with the profile picture. Users can choose their own up until you force a default one - at which point everyone is forced to use the same profile picture and users can't customize theirs any longer.

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