Each SteepleMate Kiosk, Billboard or Scroller has its own settings page, where you can rename the machine, change how fast and how often it shows content, and remove it from your church. You do this from the web, so you do not need to walk up to the machine.

This article covers changing settings. To check whether your machines are running, see Monitoring Machine Status.

Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: Open Machine Status/Settings

Open the Administration menu: From the left menu, choose Administration, then Machine Status/Settings.

1. Machine Status/Settings: Opens the list of your machines.

Step 2: Open the machine you want to change

Click the status icon: Click the red, yellow or green status icon at the left of the machine's row. The settings page for that machine opens.

1. Status icon of a Billboard: Opens the Billboard settings.
2. Status icon of a Kiosk: Opens the Kiosk settings.

Billboards and Scrollers use the same page and the same program, so a machine listed as a Billboard can be switched between Billboard and Marquee here (see Step 3). Kiosks have their own page (see Step 5).

Step 3: Change a Billboard or Scroller

The top of the page names the machine and sets how it is shown.

1. Location Detail: Where the machine is, in your own words, such as "Fellowship Hall".
2. Description: The machine's name, such as "Billboard 1". This is the name you see on the Machine Status/Settings list.
3. Physical Location: Pick one of your church's locations.
4. Default Function: Billboard or Marquee. The same program runs both, so this decides which one the machine starts as.
5. Left, Width, Top and Height: The size and position of the display window on the screen, in pixels.

Under Marquee Defaults, check Include Answered Prayers, Include Prayer Requests and Include Prayer Warriors to choose what a Marquee scrolls.

Step 4: Fine-tune timing and wording

The rest of the page controls how the Billboard and Marquee behave.

1. Polling Interval (seconds): How often the machine checks SteepleMate for changes.
2. Display Interval (seconds): How long each item stays on screen.
3. Countdown Timer: Turns on a countdown. Set the time, font size and vertical position next to it.
4. Request, Victory and Warrior Speed: How fast each list scrolls on a Marquee. 1 is the slowest.
5. Show Interstitial Billboards Between Lists: Shows your billboard images between the Marquee lists.

The Disconnected Indicator Size and Color set the small indicator that marks a machine as disconnected. The Retrieving and Title boxes set the wording shown for each Marquee list, and Font Name, Font Style and Font Size set how it looks.

Step 5: Change a Kiosk

A Kiosk has fewer settings.

1. Location Detail: Where the kiosk is.
2. Description: The kiosk's name on the Machine Status/Settings list.
3. Polling Interval, Display Interval and Announcement Auto Display Interval (seconds): How often the kiosk checks for changes, and how long items are shown.
4. Save Changes To Kiosk: Saves your changes.
5. Delete: Removes the machine (see Step 7).

The page also has an Admin Password box for that kiosk. Keep it private and do not put it in an email or a document.

Step 6: Save, or go back

When you are done, save your changes.

1. Save: Stores the settings. You see "Machine settings saved."
2. Back: Returns to the machine list without saving.
3. Delete: Removes the machine (see Step 7).

Changes do not reach the machine right away. They are stored and applied the next time the program starts on that machine. To see a change quickly, close the program on the machine and start it again. For a Billboard, press ALT + F4 to bring up the configuration screen, then choose Start.

Step 7: Remove a machine

Click Delete only when you are retiring a machine, or when a machine was registered by mistake. The machine disappears from your list and is no longer registered to your church. The page has no undo, so to use that computer again you would install the software and register it again. See Installing A Kiosk or Installing A Billboard.

Tips

• * Change one thing at a time, then watch the machine. A wrong Left, Width, Top or Height can push the display off the screen.
• * Use clear Descriptions ("Lobby Kiosk", "Gym Billboard") so the status list is easy to read.
• * If a Billboard goes black or stops cycling, see Troubleshooting a Black Screen on SteepleMate Billboard before changing settings.
  
• * Who can open the page: Administrators, and members of your church's machine alert group.