Guest kerrymoralee9280 Posted April 22, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 (edited) Hi, Our VLE obviously has password protection. The thing is we want to be able to display VLE pages on our OneLAN box. Does anyone know of a way to do this because at the minute we just get a blank screen because the OneLAN cannot authenticate with the VLE. Just mean when we add a html page to display can we type something like (and I know it won't be this simple): http://vle.kerrymoralee.com/wewanttodisplaythispage.html USER:user PASS: password Edited April 22, 2008 by kerrymoralee9280
mant01 Posted April 22, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 Hi I have not tried to show protected VLE pages before only public ones. I will have a dabble for you though. Also, have you heard there is a major update coming soon which will take it to Version 6. It looks good, but I was told that because i am on NTB115 I would get charged £416 to get it done (due to hardware upgrade etc). I went beserk and contacted my supplier who is working on getting it done cheaper (if not free). Cheers
richard.thomas Posted April 22, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 How good is OneLAN? I'm currently looking into digital signage solutions for the school, could have up to 9 screens!! At the moment i'm really liking the Samsung Solution.
western Posted April 22, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 We are a reseller for Onelan and samsung. In my opinion the onelan system is far better than the samsung system and works out to be about the same price as you can buy consumer LCD's
Guest kerrymoralee9280 Posted April 22, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 It's pretty expensive stuff but as kmount said OneLAN rocks. I realise version 6 is being released, but we haven't bought yet - we've just got a loan box. The reseller said that by the time we buy version 6 will be installed as standard. I don't know how it will look but I heard they were adding transitions and stuff like that.
richard.thomas Posted April 22, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 It's pretty expensive stuff but as kmount said OneLAN rocks. I realise version 6 is being released, but we haven't bought yet - we've just got a loan box. The reseller said that by the time we buy version 6 will be installed as standard. I don't know how it will look but I heard they were adding transitions and stuff like that. Loan box from who? I'm interested in that... As i said earlier we're looking for about 9 screens would be good to have a test!
western Posted April 22, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 we loan box's out but you have to be in the north west!
Guest kerrymoralee9280 Posted April 22, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 We got our's off our local United Carlton. Not sure whether theres a supplier in your area. It's only for a couple of weeks but it has given us a brilliant insight into what they can do and surprisingly how easy they are to use. Anyways, back to post in hand - anyone got any solutions?
Domino Posted April 22, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 is there no way to make it a public viewable section of the VLE?
mant01 Posted April 22, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 soz KerryMoralee9280....i got sidetracked with my own woes today....i promise ill have a look later tonight or tomorrow...
Guest kerrymoralee9280 Posted April 23, 2008 Posted April 23, 2008 @Domino: I'm not sure - Our manager is in the middle of contacting ITSS to find this out - but they seem to have a lot on at the minute so we are getting a slow reply. If this is not possible is there a way to do it on OneLAN?
mant01 Posted April 23, 2008 Posted April 23, 2008 Hi, I have a bit of go and I dont think its currently possible under this current software version (5.2.2). Hopefully it will allow this in future upgrades.
saihaynes Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 How good is OneLAN? I'm currently looking into digital signage solutions for the school, could have up to 9 screens!! At the moment i'm really liking the Samsung Solution. OneLan is an awesome product and having had a preview of version 6xx I can only say there are more great features being added. We just purchased the OneLan digital signage solution after a great deal of research and currently use it to deliver content to all 11 plasmas. 1
marknhopgood Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 (edited) One consideration for Onelan is that it's difficult to control more than one screen if you want to show different content on different screens. I'd be interested to know if anyone has experience of running onelan in a multi screen / multi channel setup. I know that the guys at plasmanet are offering template design advice and data connectors so that you can update onelan content directly from excel etc. Edited July 23, 2008 by marknhopgood
ICTNUT Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 I have a OneLan box and currently deliver to 5 LCDs around the school without any issues(running version 5.2.2.) LCDs are linked over a seperate cat5e network running via a cat5e extender per screen. I do want version 6 but you have to buy that as verison 5 boxes don't support it.
webman Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 I'm not familiar with OneLAN at the moment (hopefully getting one this year though); but from the responses it doesn't seem it will do HTTP authentication. Do you have linux shell access to the box? If not, I would suggest using curl or wget to download the password-protected page, and store it on a publically-accessible section of the VLE server/site or another server. Run this on a cron/schedule to update how often you like.
ICTNUT Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 @Webman: You are correct it does not do HTTP Auth and you do not have shell access although if you really wanted to......! OneLan (v5.x.x) is based on Fedora and I think is pretty standard in it's setup. Depending on the VLE I am sure you could create public pages, we use moodle and can create these with no problems while keeping the courses restricted.
marknhopgood Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 I'm not familiar with OneLAN at the moment (hopefully getting one this year though); but from the responses it doesn't seem it will do HTTP authentication. Do you have linux shell access to the box? If not, I would suggest using curl or wget to download the password-protected page, and store it on a publically-accessible section of the VLE server/site or another server. Run this on a cron/schedule to update how often you like. To authenticate via http you can encode the username and password in the URL. You can test this via a browser. What's the url you want to connect to? I have some scripts that may be able to do this for you.
chriswood Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 We will be launching an update soon with ADAP authentication. With regards to sending different content to different screens this is possible using multi channel publisher and NTB 40's or 50' s acting as subscriber units to a publisher unit probably an NTB 605. The publisher unit can send different layouts to different NTB 40's/50's which would be positioned behind the plasma/lcd screens around the school. Hope this helps
markcomms Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 (edited) Hi, Our VLE obviously has password protection. The thing is we want to be able to display VLE pages on our OneLAN box. Does anyone know of a way to do this because at the minute we just get a blank screen because the OneLAN cannot authenticate with the VLE. Just mean when we add a html page to display can we type something like (and I know it won't be this simple): http://vle.kerrymoralee.com/wewanttodisplaythispage.html USER:user PASS: password Try using url=http:// :@ in Firefox, and if this shows the webpage you want then the URL will work the same way on the NTB. HTH Edited July 24, 2008 by markcomms
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