Player Logs

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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:

  1. Navigate to 'Displays' in the left menu: displays_menu🔎︎
  2. Select a display.
  3. Click 'Edit' in the top right.
  4. Under 'Playback settings':
    1. Toggle debug mode.
    2. Set a log level. Debug is the highest level of logging:

displays_debug

5. Click 'Save'.


CX Portal

Access logs for a display via the CX Portal:

  1. Select a display.
  2. Click 'Logs' in the top right.
  3. Toggle the timeline view. The timeline view includes status history as well as logs:

displays_logs


Player

Access logs on the physical player:

Premium

  1. Enable debug mode for the display in the CX Portal.
  2. Press F5 to open the debug menu.
  3. Under 'Information' select the relevant option:premium_debug🔎︎
    1. Resource info - Information of the playing content and loaded content.
    2. Script info - Information on any scripts set to run.🔎︎ 
    3. Playback Monitor - In-depth information on all content set to play.
    4. Network Multicast View - Information on syncing commands.
    5. Software Log - A full Dise software log.
Dise automatically logs to Microsoft's Sysinternal tool, DebugView.

Lite

  1. Enable debug mode for the display in the CX Portal.
  2. Press 1 on the screen remote or on a connected keyboard. CTRL + i can be used on some Lite devices.
  3. Wait for the debug overlay to open:
    1. Player information.
    2. Player logs:

lite_debug


Log to File

By default Dise doesn't log to file to preserve storage space. This can be changed via two custom settings:

  1. Level of logging:
    1. Name: log.file.level
    2. Type: int
    3. Value: (Number 1-7, with 7 being the highest level of logging)
  2. Directory of where to log to:
    1. Name: log.file.filename
    2. Type: string
    3. 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

  1. Open dxdiag:
    1. Search for 'dxdiag' from the Windows start menu.
    2. Open Run (Windows Key+R) and enter 'dxdiag'.
  2. Click 'Save All Information'.
  3. Retrieve the log file from the Windows desktop.