Library Digital Signage Displays - Networking

Wed Sep 16 10:52:01 EDT 2015

?We also use Pi and Rise.

Jeff Wisniewski

Web Services & Communications Librarian

University Library System

University of Pittsburgh

Jeffw at pitt.edu

412-624-4050

@jeffwisniewski

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++Raspberry Pi as the little engine that could.

We use RiseVision (risevision.com<http://risevision.com>) as a hosted, web-based signage platform.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Max King <mking9 at iit.edu<mailto: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<mailto: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<tel:718.260.5481>

http://library.citytech.cuny.edu

>>> "Vinke, Dana" <DVinke at TORRANCECA.GOV<mailto: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
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