Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking

[Max King]

Hey Dana,

We use something very similar to what Junior described above: A Raspberry
Pi hooked up to a monitor, except ours uses a Shell script to grab image
files from a folder on our shared drive and cycle through them.

If you'd like the script, and how we set it up, feel free to contact me
directly.

Max


On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Junior Tidal <JTidal at citytech.cuny.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Dana,
>
> We use the open source version of Screenly -
> https://www.screenlyapp.com/ose/ .
>
> We have two plasma screens connected to a Raspberry Pi where Screenly is
> installed. There are on the network, and they use a web interface to drop
> images into the slide show. Images also can be activated or expired at set
> dates and time. The interface is pretty easy to use and mobile friendly, so
> you could theoretically upload pictures from a mobile device.
>
> What's also nice is that you can also post URLs and not just images.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Best,
> Junior
>
> Junior Tidal
> Associate Professor
> Web Services and Multimedia Librarian
> New York City College of Technology, CUNY
> 300 Jay Street, Rm A434
> Brooklyn, NY 11201
> 718.260.5481
>
> http://library.citytech.cuny.edu
>
>
> >>> "Vinke, Dana" <DVinke at TORRANCECA.GOV> 9/15/2015 5:31 PM >>>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to improve the way we are handling our Digital Signage
> Displays.
>
> Currently we are using PowerPoint slides, changing them to JPEG, then
> loading them on the display via USB. We have six locations with flat
> screens at each.
>
> We would like to network our signage to make things easier.  Does anyone
> using Digital Signage use software or a service to coordinate slideshows
> via the Internet? We are hoping for something that would be low cost,
> accessible, and relatively easy for staff to use without a lot of training?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Dana Vinke
> Dana Vinke | Principal Librarian of Operations| Torrance Public Library |
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