Giada D77 ARM Signage Player User Manual

Giada D77 ARM Signage Player

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Safety Notice

• Read the user manual carefully before setting up the Giada product. • Disconnect the power cord before installing the internal components
• Most electronic components are sensitive to static electrical charge, please wear wrist-grounding strap when installing the internal components.
• Don’t disconnect the power cord when the system is running to avoid damage to the sensitive components caused by instantaneous surge voltage.

Product Introduction

Based on Rock chip RK3588 CPU, Giada D77 adopts onboard dual-channel memory as well as on board eMMC, plus M.2 interface for NV Me SSD storage expansion. With four HDMI display out puts, it supports max 4K resolution and hardware EDID function. WIFI6, 4Gmobile network are supported. The player is suitable to be applied in high-end digital signage applications.

Interface Description and Hardware Specifications

Interface Description

• Front I/O Port
  

• Left I/O Port
  

• Rear I/O Port
  

• Right I/O port
  

Hardware Specifications

Cortex-A55
Frequency| 2.40 GHz
NPU| 6 TOPs, support int4/int8/int16/FP16/BF16/TF32 acceleration
Memory| Type| 4 GB, Onboard 2-channel LPDDR4x
Socket| Onboard
Max Capacity| 8GB (Optional: 4G)
Graphics| GPU| ARM Mali-G610 MP4 GPU
Graphic Engine| OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.2, OpenCL 1.1/1.2/2.0, Vulkan 1.1/1.2
Multi-Media| H.265/H.264/AV1/AVS2 etc. video decoder up to 8K@60fps 8K@30fps video encoders for H.264/H.265
HDMI| 3 x HDMI (Max. 4096 x 2160 @60 Hz) 1 x HDMI (Max. 1920 x 1080 @60Hz)
Network| Controller| 1 x Realtek RTL 8211E Gigabit Ethernet
Interface| 1 x RJ45
I/O Interface| USB| 1  x USB3.2 Gen1 (OTG), 1 x USB3.2 Gen1 2  x USB2.0
Serial Port| 1 x RS232
Audio| 1 x MIC-IN, 1 x AUDIO-OUT
M.2 (2230)| 1 x E-key M.2 (2230) for Wi-Fi/BT module, Supporting Wi-Fi 5 /6
SIM| 1 x SIM Slot
M.2| 1 x B-key M.2 (3042) for 3G /4G
Storage| M.2 (2280)| 1 x M-key M.2 (2280) for PCIe3.0 X4 SSD (NVMe)
eMMC| 64 GB, Onboard eMMC
JAHC| JAHC| Watchdog / Auto power on/ RTC
Operation System| OS| Android12
Power| Power Type| DC-IN
Input Voltage| 12 V/2.08 A
Mechanical| Construction| Metal
Mounting| VESA Mounting Kit (JZ183)
Dimension (W x D x H)| 189.6mm x 148.3mm x 26mm (7.46” x 5.83” x 1.02”)
Color| Black
Environment| Operating Temperature| 0°C ~45°C (32°F~113°F) @0.7m/s Air Flow
Relative Humidity| 95%@40℃ (non-condensing)
Certification| | CE, FCC Class B, UKCA

Accessories Installation Steps

For safety reasons, please ensure that the power cord is disconnected before opening the case.

How to open the top cover and bottom cover

Unscrew the four screws and remove the top cover. (M.2 for SSD and M.2 for WIFI, M.2slot for 3G/4G and SIM card slot are on top side)

Unscrew the four screws, push the bottom cover and remove it. ( There are no removable parts on bottom side)

SIM Card Installation

This product supports standard SIM card with the size of 25mm × 15mm.

1. [Open] the SIM card holder and pull it up.
2. Insert the SIM card.
3. [Lock] the card holder.
   
   

3G/4G Installation

• 3G/4G Installation
  Default SMA connector and cable is for WIFI. Please change to 3G/4G SMA connector and cable.
  Please contact with Giada to confirm the compatible 3G/4G module.

1. Plug the 3G/4G module into the M.2 slot.
2. Secure the module to the standoff screw by tightening up the screw.
3. Connect the cable to Main and install the antenna.  

SSD (M.2) Installation

1. Plug the SSD (M.2) into the appropriate slot.
2. Secure the module to the carrier by tightening up the screw.
   

WIFI (M.2) Installation

Please contact with Giada to confirm the compatible WIFI module.

1. Plug the WIFI module into the appropriate slot.
2. Secure the module to the carrier by tightening up the screw.
3. Connect the two cables to WIFI module and install the antennas.
   
   

Firmware Upgrade Guide

Preparation:

• D77 player
• Archive of D77 firmware provided by Giada technical support
• Host PC with screen and installed the Windows operation system.
• USB OTG Cable (RP-SMA Male↔RP-SMA Male)

After you get the Archive from Giada technical support, copy the Archive to your host PC, you will find below files inside:

• Android Tool – tool for updating
• D77 Firmware image.
• Driver Assistant – tool to install drivers and firmware image file
  

Upgrade the firmware

Install the driver in your host PC by following steps:

a. Click the Driver Assistant file. Launch RK Driver Assistant and press “Install Driver”.

Apply all changes and warnings during the installation.

b. Click “ok” after the installation finish

Connect the D77 with host PC

In order to connect the D77 with Host PC and run bootloader mode, you should perform following steps:

a. Please ensure that the power of the D77 player is disconnected
b. Run RK Android tool V2.93 under the windows of the host PC.
c. Connect the D77 player to the host PC via use OTG port (please refer to Fig 1for location of the OTG port)
d. Firstly, hold the D77 player recovery button (please refer to Fig1 for the location of the button), then connect the power adaptor to the player, you will see “Found a MSC Device” or “Found One Loader Device”. (Please refer to Fig2)

Please don’t loosen the button and don’t press twice until you see the ‘Found a MSC Device’ or Found One loader device

Start the firmware updating.

a. Click “Firmware” button and specify the path to the firmware file which is stored in the host PC(Please refer to Fig2).
b. Wait around 5 seconds to upload the program, FW information will display on the screen. After the “Upgrade” button turns to black, you can click “Upgrade” to update the firmware (please refer to Fig3 and Fig4).


c. In the end, you will see a report indicating a successful operation.

JAHC software

JAHC APP functions

The user can set up automatic startup and shutdown, one week as a circle

Startup(open) & shutdown(close) time setup System

Requirements:

• Giada player with JAHC APP function.
• Android OS includes JAHC APP (please refer to Fig1).
  

a. After enter the android desktop, click the JAHC APP icon and the JAHC interface will popup(please refer to Fig2)

b. Click “New” button to set open time (Fig3) and then click Close time button to set close time. One week as a circle, maximum 3 schedules per day. Select each schedule to set up the Open time and Close time.
c. After finishing the setup, click circles to launch the schedule. User can click delete to remove the schedule.

Caution: If the interval from shutdown time to next resume time is less than 3 minutes, the system will not shut down.

ADB SOP

The user can debug APP with ADB driver by below steps:

Use command ADB version to check if Windows ADB tool is installed.

Enter into ADB

a. Connect D77 with OTG cable to windows PC host.
b. Select ‘Connect to PC’ under android OS->Settings->USB->connect to PC.

c. Then you can use ADB shell command to enter ADB.

Multi display configuration

Caution: The D77 comes with built-in hardware EDID chip. If you connect a screen to D77viaHDMI cables and find no signal on screen, please use a needle to press the EDID button on rear panel of D77. See below pictures.

When you connect multiple screens to the D77, it works as copy display mode by default. Each screen will display the same content. In case you want to play different videos on each screen or enable the extended display mode and setup different video wall configurations, you can follow this guide.

Address the screens with videos one by one

This function can be accomplished by Giada its built-in demo APP named “Multi- screen player”.

Caution: Please notice that not all versions of firmware includes this built-in APP. If you cannot findthis APP on desktop, please contact Giada to get specific firmware and upgrade it to your device.

A. Power up D77 and open the “Multi-screen player

B. Select the videos path:

• Click the top right and than click “Set Build-in video path” > Select target video > Click “OK”
• Repeat the same way to select videos for other screens.
  

C. Load the videos. Click “Screen: HDMI-0”, “Screen: HDMI-1”, “Screen: HDMI-2”, “Screen: Build-in” to load the video one by one;

Caution: Please do not click “Screen: Build-in” until loading videos to all other screens. Because the “Screen: Build-in” is home screen and you will not longer able to find this main menu after loading video to this screen.

D. Exit the video playing: Simple right click the mouse and you can stop playing the video one by one

Video wall configuration

Caution: Giada only provides scripts for user to configure the video wall for demo purpose.

Caution: The same resolution screens are recommended when configure the video wall. In case you use different resolution screens, the content will be stretched to fit the screen.

Caution: Under video wall mode, when you use the CMS to set the playback content for one of the HDMI ports, it may cause abnormal display. In this case, it is recommended to exist the “videowall” mode.

Caution: In the script, the 4x HDMI ports (starting from left HDMI port alongside antenna) IDs are defined as HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, DP, DSI respectively.

Specifically, when connect 2 screens only, the HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 will be recommended. Otherwise, you may experience incorrect proportion graphic.

When connect 3 screens only, the HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, DP will be recommended. Otherwise, you may experience incorrect proportion graphic.

D77 can support following video wall configurations

• 4-screens: 64:9, 16:9, 16:36 video wall
• 3-screens: 48:9, 16:27 video wall
• 2-screens: 36:9, 16:18 video wall

What do you need to configure the video wall

• Host Windows PC
• 1x USB OTG cable
• Capability to run ADB command
• Download following “HwComposerEnv_xxx.xml” script file from https://www.giadatech.com/D77-RK3588-high-performance-ARM-digital-signage-player

These are script files supporting different video wall configurations. Please download the corresponding script file according your needs.

a. Using “HwComposerEnv_4x1.xml” to setup 4-screens 64:9 video wall,

b. Using “HwComposerEnv_1x4.xml” to setup 4-screens 16:36 video wall,

c. Using “HwComposerEnv_2x2.xml” to setup 4-screens 16:9 video wall

d. Using “HwComposerEnv_3x1.xml” to setup 3-screen 48:9 video wall

e. Using “HwComposerEnv_3x1.xml” to setup 3-screen 16:27 video wall

f. Using “HwComposerEnv_2x1.xml” to setup 2-screen 32:9 video wall

g. Using “HwComposerEnv_1x2.xml” to setup 2-screen 16:18 video wall

h. “HwComposerEnv.xml” is used to reset the configuration.

Note: Above script files are suitable for landscape orientation, if you wish to use portrait orientation, please enter the system and select Setting > Display > Screen rotate > 90 or 270 degree.

e.g. If you want to change 4-screens from 16:36 to 36:16 video wall setup, you can pushthe“HwComposerEnv_1x4.xml” into D77, and change the screen rotate from 0 degree to 90degree.

Use ADB command to enter or exit the video wall mode

A. Connect the D77 with host PC (Refer Part 6)

B. Push the target “HwComposerEnv_xxx.xml” file into the D77

Enter ADB, (Refer Part 6.2)

Run following commands step by step:

adb root –> To get root access

adb remount –> Executing “remount” adb push HwComposerEnv_xxx.xml /vendor/etc/HwComposerEnv.xml –> Write and rename the configuration file into D77

adb reboot –> Restart the system. (Or restart by power bottom)

adb shell wm size Pixel(W)xPixel(H) –> Setting the desktop resolution by a Weight-height ratio(e.g. If you pushed the config 4-screens 16:9 file.

Write adb shell wm size 3840×2160)

C. Exit video wall model

Enter ADB, (Refer Part 6.2)

adb root –> To get root access

adb remount –> Executing “remount” adb push HwComposerEnv.xml /vendor/etc/HwComposerEnv.xml –> Write the standardconfiguration file into D77

adb shell wm size reset –> Resetting the desktop resolution

adb reboot

Contact Information

Shenzhen JIEHE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
Website: www.giadatech.com
Phone: +86-755-3330 0336
Email: support@giadatech.com
Address: 1~2/F, Block A, Tsinghua Information Harbor, North Section, Shenzhen Hi-tech Park, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China

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References

• Giada Technology | Professional Digital Signage Media Players
• High performance ARM signage player - Giada D77

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