Sign design
Campaign looks, promotion text and posters for events, shows and holidays are edited on the design page, which has its own password for marketing.
Add a sign
For when another display goes up. The number is what the display is set to.
Refresh schedule
When the signs wake up to check for changes. A sign only redraws if something actually changed, so an ordinary wake is short. Staff can always force an update by pressing the button on a sign.
Financing
Used for the estimated monthly payment on every sign. Change it once here and all signs pick it up at their next refresh — nothing to do on the displays.
Pick a boat from the list, choose the layout if the sign is hung on its side, then hit Update. Details, specs and photo come straight from the website. Boats marked no photo work fine, they just show without one. Choosing no boat leaves the plain Boats By George design on that sign.
A brand new display shows its own serial number on screen until you give it a number here. It picks the number up, and the showroom pricing that goes with it, at its next refresh — or straight away if you press the button on its back.
Battery figures are estimated from cell voltage. These units' own percentage is not a real gauge (it reads 101% on a unit that is two-thirds full), so the voltage is the number to trust; it reads slightly low because the sign is awake when it reports. Every reading is kept, and after a day or so each sign shows how fast it is falling and a rough number of days until it needs charging. Treat that as a guide: a lithium cell holds its voltage for most of its charge and then drops quickly near the end, so the estimate gets more honest the closer it gets.
Signs are not connected all the time. A change appears at the sign's next scheduled refresh, or straight away if someone presses the button on the back of that display. With a once-a-day schedule, press the button after changing a boat if you want it on the sign today.