Summer 2022 - Igloo Control Panel

Igloo Control Panel is an app that allows remote control of an Igloo Media Player.

Summary of functionality:

Run video conferences
Share a portion of the Igloo Canvas to a video conference
Control Igloo Capture sources
Select content from Igloo Playback clipbanks
Take keyboard+mouse control over webpages through Igloo Web
Use Igloo Home to trigger content

Setup

For setup instructions please see here: https://360igloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EDoc/pages/3270608305

Meeting

Meeting tab

Video conferencing

Cast Video Call

Clicking this button will display a dialog to allow you to choose a Video Conferencing window to display on the Igloo canvas.

Show call and Hide call will show/hide this shared window on the canvas.

The position video call control changes the canvas position of the shared window, and scale video call changes its size.

Allows you to share a portion of the Igloo canvas to a Teams call.
Pressing the share screen button will highlight a region of the Igloo canvas, which can then be shared in a video conference using an app’s standard screen-sharing functionality.
The region can be position and scaled using the position share screen and scale share screen controls, to adjust what is being shared.

Sources

Available sources

The left hand side of this tab displays available sources from Igloo Capture. Click on a source to select it; controls for that source will then be displayed on the right hand side of the screen.

Selected source

The show source and hide source buttons will, as you might expect, show or hide that piece of content on the Igloo canvas.

You can adjust a source’s position and scale using the position source control and scale source slider, as for the Meeting tab above. The reset button will reset both of these parameters to their defaults.

Contextual controls

Additional controls will be displayed at the bottom of the right hand side of this tab based on the type of source that is selected.
Sources that can be played, paused, or accept volume changes will display controls for these actions:

PDF sources will display scrolling controls:

Playback

The Playback tab synchronises with the clipbanks shown in the Igloo Playback application and allows you to select clips and control volume and movie playhead position.

Apps

For details on each of the standard apps, please see here: https://360igloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EDoc/pages/3270608423

It is also possible to add custom apps. This is done by manually editing the settings.xml file, here is an example snippet to add a custom app called Spacewalk. The iconName file acts as the thumbnail shown in the Apps tab and is stored in the Images subfolder of the Control Panel settings folder.

        <browser>
            <isIPServer>0</isIPServer>
            <name>Spacewalk</name>
            <urlPostFix>:800/spacewalk/control</urlPostFix>
            <webAddress></webAddress>
            <enabled>1</enabled>
            <iconName>spacewalk_logo.png</iconName>
            <group>APP</group>
        </browser>

Home

This tab displays your currently active Igloo Home layout.

Click a tile on the layout to launch its corresponding content, or click the background to go back to Home on the Igloo canvas.

Settings

General settings

The first row of these controls allows selection of the target client machine through the provided list, or manually entering an IP address.

Target FPS sets the rate at which frames are sent to the IMP when sharing a window.

The show console and display FPS in title bar toggles are for troubleshooting.

The show cursor control decides whether the local mouse cursor should be visible on the Igloo canvas in any shared windows.

Audio settings

Select the audio source to be shared to the IMP, adjust its volume or mute it. These settings are relevant for the video conferencing element of the application - volume of Igloo Capture sources can be controlled on the Sources tab.

Cast Keyboard & Mouse

Clicking the “Cast Keyboard & mouse” button casts local keyboard + mouse inputs to the IMP to allow to control of a number of aspects of the system such as

Igloo Web
Igloo Home (see setup)
Unity based applications (see setup)

Press Ctrl+Q to quit this mode.