Stop/start scheduled CMS events using Pearl Nano's front screen menu

You can use the Pearl Nano's front screen and the control key interface to manually start scheduled events up to thirty minutes before the scheduled start time.

When CMS is enabled on Pearl Nano, an Events screen is added to the screens you can view on the front screen. If you don't see the Events screen on the front screen, press the left arrow key (or the right arrow key) on the control key interface to cycle through the different views.

When an event is scheduled, the Event screen updates with the event name and a countdown timer. Five minutes before the scheduled event, the event name and timer on the Events screen turn red. You can select Start event using the control keys to start the event up to a half an hour before the scheduled start time.

When the event starts, the button changes to Stop event. Select Stop event when you're done or just wait for the event to stop automatically at the scheduled time. Recordings upload automatically to your CMS.

For important considerations before recording or webcasting to a CMS, see About Kaltura recording and webcasting and About Panopto recording and webcasting, or YuJa setup.

Important information

• Your Pearl device must already be registered with your CMS to appear listed as a remote recorder resource in Kaltura or Panopto. Contact your CMS administrator responsible for setting up hardware encoders for your organization if the Pearl device isn't listed as a resource or the calendar icon does not appear on the front screen.
• Pearl Nano's channel is treated as a single, primary video source in Kaltura and Panopto.
• For Kaltura, the channel used for live streaming is pre-configured by the Pearl administrator.
• Panopto users can select the resolution for the video source in Panopto when a new scheduled or recurring session is created. The encoding settings are applied automatically to the channel on Pearl Nano
• After the event ends, recordings automatically upload to the CMS. It may take a while for content to show up in Kaltura's media lists, depending on how busy the Kaltura CMS system is at that time. Recordings are associated with the user account that scheduled the event.
• If network connectivity is lost during a scheduled VOD event, the Pearl device continues to record the event locally. When network connectivity re-establishes and the event ends, the recording uploads to the CMS as expected.

For Panopto VOD events, if you manually stop a scheduled VOD event before the scheduled end time when the Pearl device doesn't have network connectivity, the Pearl device uploads the completed event's recording when network connectivity resumes. However, Panopto does not recognize that the event has ended. The event remains in the In Progress state in Panopto and you must wait until the original event's scheduled end time before creating a new event using that Pearl device.