Spinetix DiVA: Perfect Single-Screen Solution
Very often we focus on large digital signage deployments. Hundreds (or in the case of one story this issue, thousands) of screens sometimes across multiple campuses, require an effort not unlike a military campaign to deploy and adequately maintain. Impressive, but beyond the scope of most organisations.
In fact, most enterprises only ever contemplate a single screen. You know the kind, in fact, you may well be eyeing off a vacant wall right now: something mounted behind the reception desk, a waiting room, a foyer, a staff cafeteria, or a retail display window; and it’s utterly sufficient for the scope of the content and intended message. The intended scope may be anything from retail specials/promotions, staff noticeboard-style messaging, through to ‘get your flu shot now’ monologues from a trustworthy man in labcoat and company metrics/sales targets.
Spinetix is a Swiss signage specialist, building bulletproof solid-state media players for years and logical/powerful scheduling software. Spinetix DiVA is the company’s acknowledgement that there’s a world of single-screen signage customers who require a solution that’s easy-to-operate without sacrificing anything in the looks department.
The brains of the operation is the DiVA media player that sits on your computer network and plugs into the back of your screen.
Pushing content to your screen starts with logging onto the DiVA interface via a web browser. Being browser based means you can pull the levers from any computer or device in the office or even at home, which is great. The easy-to-use interface has three panes: Create, Schedule, along with a window mirroring what the DiVA screen is currently showing.
In the Create pane you can pull content into the DiVA player from your PC and then choose a Playout template to work with or create your own. There are a variety of Spinetix Playouts in landscape or portrait orientation and very often include plugins for an RSS feed, a clock or a info ticker. Choose the Playout that best suits, then drag ’n’ drop a background image, the principal media, and the RSS feed you’re pointing to etc. It’s super-easy to create something bespoke and something that looks sharp and professional.
Once you’ve designed your Playout(s), return to the Scheduler tab and, again, drag ’n’ drop Playouts onto the weekly calendar — Wednesday 11:30am, for example.
Drag one of the Playouts to the Default panel to set the message DiVA reverts to if nothing else has been scheduled.
Sounds easy? It is literally as easy as all that. There is, of course, some deeper dive editing, but not at the expense of ease of use.
With DiVA, Spinetix isn’t preaching to the choir, it’s reaching out to business owners wedded to the use of printed material. With DiVA, the shift to digital is as unintimidating as you can get — operationally and financially. And by making the move you enter a world of dynamic content; a world with apps such as calendars, tickers, weather, and other RSS feeds; that looks refined and can be managed from any device by a ‘fall off a log’ web browser interface even the work experience kid can operate.
With DiVA, you’re running out of excuses.
VIDEO: DIVA EXPLAINED
We asked Spinetix Sales Manager, George Preston, to give us a tour of DiVA while we were at the ISE show in Amsterdam. Check out our video here.
Madison Technologies (Spinetix): 1800 00 77 80 or madisontech.com.au/single-screen-digital-signage/
Spinetix DiVA: www2.spinetix.com/single-screen