To turn on, and control the Silver Lining ad bar on your network, you must create an account on the Silver Lining dashboard.

Creating and Managing Ad Bars

Once you have logged in to the Silver Lining dashboard, follow these instructions to create at least one ad bar for your Open-Mesh network:

1. In the left sidebar, click the top button “Ad Center”
2. Click on the ad bar that you would like to edit. The default ad bar is the “Text Entry Message Bar” which you can use to type text messages (including links) directly into the ad bar. 
   
3. To create a new text message in this ad bar, click “Text Entry Message Bar”
4. Enter the text for the message bar.
5. Click 'save text message' and this text message is now saved as your text message ad bar.

In addition to simple text messages, you can create an ad bar that displays the most recent tweet from any Twitter account. 

Click here to learn more about Twitter in your WiFi's ad bar..

In addition to the text message bar, and the Twitter feed, you can place ad invocation code from your ad server into an bar, in order to serve IAB Standard ad banners.   Use your ad server to target, control and track your ad campaigns.  Learn more about using ad zones.

Once you have created at least one ad bar, follow these instructions to assign message bars to routers on your Open-Mesh network:

Managing Routers

1. In the left sidebar, click the second button to “Routers”
2. Click "Synch Open-Mesh Devices"
3. In the list of routers that appears or updates, click on a router to edit
   
4. To edit greyed out fields including SSID and router name, you must login to your Open-Mesh dashboard
5. To add or change OpenX ad zones, text messages, or twitter feeds on your router's ad bar, select the appropriate ad bar
   
6. Click "save settings" to update your router