Player Logs
- 13 Jun 2024
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Player Logs
- Updated on 13 Jun 2024
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Player logs are available in multiple places. A debug setting can be added to a player to increase the level of Dise logging across all log viewing methods:
- Navigate to 'Displays' in the left menu: 🔎︎
- Select a display.
- Click 'Edit' in the top right.
- Under 'Playback settings':
- Toggle debug mode.
- Set a log level. Debug is the highest level of logging:
5. Click 'Save'.
CX Portal
Access logs for a display via the CX Portal:
- Select a display.
- Click 'Logs' in the top right.
- Toggle the timeline view. The timeline view includes status history as well as logs:
Player
Access logs on the physical player:
Premium
- Enable debug mode for the display in the CX Portal.
- Press F5 to open the debug menu.
- Under 'Information' select the relevant option:🔎︎
- Resource info - Information of the playing content and loaded content.
- Script info - Information on any scripts set to run.🔎︎
- Playback Monitor - In-depth information on all content set to play.
- Network Multicast View - Information on syncing commands.
- Software Log - A full Dise software log.
Dise automatically logs to Microsoft's Sysinternal tool, DebugView.
Lite
- Enable debug mode for the display in the CX Portal.
- Press 1 on the screen remote or on a connected keyboard. CTRL + i can be used on some Lite devices.
- Wait for the debug overlay to open:
- Player information.
- Player logs:
Log to File
By default Dise doesn't log to file to preserve storage space. This can be changed via two custom settings:
- Level of logging:
- Name: log.file.level
- Type: int
- Value: (Number 1-7, with 7 being the highest level of logging)
- Directory of where to log to:
- Name: log.file.filename
- Type: string
- Value: (Path and filename)
Example:
- Name: log.file.level
- Type: int
- Value: 7
- Name: log.file.filename
- Type: string
- Value: C:\temp\logfile.txt
Dxdiag Logs
- Open dxdiag:
- Search for 'dxdiag' from the Windows start menu.
- Open Run (Windows Key+R) and enter 'dxdiag'.
- Click 'Save All Information'.
- Retrieve the log file from the Windows desktop.
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