Thermometer Support

NoviSign’s Android APK player app now supports a built-in thermometer, available in some models of the NoviTizer (NoviSign’s hand sanitizer kiosk). This feature allows you to display content based on a person’s temperature reading.

Step 1: Studio Configuration (Online Setup)

If you’ve received a NoviTizer with a built-in thermometer, follow these steps to configure the content and assign the appropriate events.

1. Make sure that the 2 thermometer events are assigned to the Studio user which you are going to create the content by (you cannot contact our support to confirm that).
2. In your Studio user account, create some content (one or more creatives) to be played in a playlist. Also create one creative to show when a sick person is using the thermometer and one creative to show when a healthy person is trying the thermometer. In your playlist, while in edit mode, add the “Thermometer OK TEMP” thermometer event to the creative which is meant to be displayed for a healthy person and the “Thermometer HIGH TEMP” thermometer event to the creative which is meant to be displayed for a person with high fever.
3. In each of those two creatives, if you like to show the temperature, put this data expression: ${ID.value} in a label widget. That will show the reading number. So if you put there text such as: Your temperature is ${ID.value} Celsius degrees, then on the display ${ID.value} will be resolved to the actual temperature reading from the thermometer.

Step 2: NoviTizer Device Configuration

Follow these steps to configure the NoviSign player app on the NoviTizer device:

1. You need to configure the player app in the following manner:
   Probably, the NoviTizer, already came pre-installed with the NoviSign APK.
   Whether it was or wasn’t, make sure you have the latest version of the NoviSign APK.
   To download and install the latest NoviSign APK, go to our download website and download the top-most APK there: https://app.novisign.com/downloads/
2. On the entrance screen of the NoviSign’s app set your screen key.
3. Click the gear icon in the top-right corner of the entrance screen in order to enter the app’s settings.
4. Change the setting “Parameters Name” (under “Player” block of settings) to “ID” (without the quotes).
5. Change the setting “Parameters Key” (under “Player” block of settings) to “0” (zero, without the quotes).
6. Change the setting “Display Notifications” (under “Display” block of settings) to off.
7. Change the setting “Skip Incomplete Slides” (under “Play Mode” block of settings) to off.
8. Change the setting “Skip Slideshow Incomplete Slides” (under “Play Mode” block of settings) to off.
9. Change the setting “RF ID Reader” (under “Advanced” block of settings -> “External Interfaces”) to on, to allow keyboard events to the unit.
10. Enter the “External Interfaces” menu under the “Advanced” block of settings and change the setting “Enable Thermometer Events” to on.
11. Change the setting “Fever Threshold”. You can change to any number (i.e. 37.8) – equal to or above it, it will be considered as fever. This can be either Celsius or Fahrenheit degrees, but you must have it suitable to the thermometer settings (your thermometer can be toggled to work either with Celsius or with Fahrenheit scale).
12. Change the setting “Reading Threshold”. You can change to any number (i.e. 35) – below it, any reading from the thermometer will be ignored (as this thermometer takes a reading every 5 seconds no matter what, and we would like to filter out that “noise”. This can be either Celsius or Fahrenheit degrees.
13. Exit the settings and press “Go”.
14. Try the thermometer and see that all works as expected.