Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking

[Thomas Dowling]

++Raspberry Pi as the little engine that could.

We use RiseVision (risevision.com) as a hosted, web-based signage platform.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Max King <mking9 at iit.edu> wrote:

> 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 |
>> 3301 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90503 |310.618.5955 voice |
>> 310.618.5952 FAX | DVinke at TorranceCa.<mailto:dvinke at torranceCa.gov>Gov |
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Thomas Dowling
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Wake Forest University
President, Library and Information Technology Association (LITA)
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