LeftClick players are intelligent players which can gather information to be displayed in a pre formatted definition on the display. This information will not be collected by the LeftClick Web Services portal. Therefore the information stays in your own organisation because the players can retrieve this internally inside your network. Even when the players is stolen the data will not be available. Information is only stored in the RAM of the player and on power loss the data is lost.
The information can be retrieved via different protocols and the player needs a direct connection to the data source. This corporate network infrastructure like firewall/proxy/authorization needs to be applied with the correct rules for the player to retrieve the data.
These network data transport protocols can be used:
These are NOT supported:
These data formats are supported with the supported transport protocols listed above:
The template plug-in can update as fast as every second but can also be delayed for hours/days/weeks. On each connection implementation we will adapt the correct update frequency which suits the desired solution.
Exchanging data is a important feature and can be done in different ways. The LeftClick Web Services portal has a REST/JSON interface to interact with programs. With software programming you can integrate our services in your own software. For example you can create/read the tickets, view the status of the players but also create new accounts. LeftClick provides a Ruby library for programming. The name of the GEM is LWS.
Before you use the library you need to create a device token from the portal. You can do this with these steps: