in some use cases this can be used in place of the magic mirror software as a light smart mirror display. while the magic mirror is fully customisable, there are broken modules that no longer work for one reason or another and have a certain degree of high maintenance. this is like back to basics. 👍
Hot sweet damn, this is exactly what I need for work, thanks! I've probably already tried every one of the other Pi-supported digital signage solutions out there, they all suck performance-wise and at least the last time I looked (last year) none supported the Pi4 yet, and I'll be damned if I ever pay a subscription for signage.
Cool for a single sign for sure. I work for XOGO digital signage which is a company that needs to charge at some point of course. However, one sign is free so probably the same customer as this project is designed for but much more advanced. An option. Good job presenting the opensource project!!
Very informative! Is there a feature install to use the PI as a picture and video kiosk from a thumbdrive? Both video and pictures. We are a STEM organization and want a slide show display of or projects during public events. Thank you for your outstanding work!
Just curious.... have you thought of making maybe a 2 button thing to speed up/slow down the teleprompter and turn it in to foot pedals? just a random idea that popped in my head :)
So I have a unique issue, I can’t use WiFi or hardline. I want to display signage that I load locally. Not transferred over internet. I can’t get ANY devices on the internet in said area.
hi, guys. i need advice. I want to display a looped video on a TV. are the earlier versions of Pi able to do this? Are there requirements I need to be aware of to display video? I plan to use an older monitor with VGA input and use an adapter to connect to HDMI coming out of the Pi, unless theres a simpler setup.
I want to create a university touch screen interface with raspberry pi and whenever a student touches it the options got displayed and the class schedules, etc please help me
This is what I would like to know also. I'm looking for a good inexpensive display for my RPi 4, roughly 7 or 10 inches. I could use something like this digital signage and make a digital photo frame with random photos of my family.
Is there a way of layering this onto a lite Raspbian install? I want to run with mosquitto_sub and a bunch of standard utils for screen blanking and waking. I have console hdmi suspend working now (can be triggered by script or remote ssh session)
Am currently trying to work out if I can utilise this to use for a switchable display unit by switching TTY output using CHVT (over an SSH session). I want to be able to issue remote commands to switch between a web display, video display and text display; I want to be able to script how it switches as a kind of "send-to" target. Also trying to find a terminal equivalent of xset (which lets you send the system into HDMI power-off or suspend) - the reason for this will be to tie it into an infra-red sensor that will switch of all displays when noone's in the room and then power them all on as you come in without having to reboot. Also is it plausible to stop/start the service program that runs the display rather than restart the entire device (doing this via SSH)?
@@matthewreid9502 I managed to get some things working but the Raspberry Pi OS developers treat the video output and handling system like the wild west - not entirely their fault as things seem to work and then stop working with kernel updates. For example - screen blanking after inactivity or by script edict - that's changed three, perhaps four times in method and utility required - and it *doesn't* work consistently for the Zero compared to, say, the 4b. I wanted to be able to issue blanking commands to all screens to turn them into DPMS power save but to retain this functionality I have to not only maintain a very old build (Debian 10 based) but I also have to not update the OS at all as a simple update will replace the kernel and bam, everything stops working for blanking. It's just too inconsistent; every time they update the kernel you are at severe risk of everything suddenly not working. I even tried switching to alternative OS's such as DietPi - some of those actually worked more consistently but I've not really found a happy medium for this build to date.
Want to try this out but I'm a pi newb and before I create a new image I'm hoping you could let me know if the following is possible... when the user touches a text box does a key board pop up? Also, would it be possible to somehow have something where if the network drops a custom page comes up? I'd like to have a page that comes up where the user can press a button that activates one of the digital outputs on the pi. Thanks!
@@NovaspiritTech Interesting thanks... are you aware of anything to create a custom 404 error page if the network drops? Or some sort of program that runs and keeps an eye on the network status? I would like to have some kind of fall back in case the network drops. Great video by the way.
I have 2 questions: 1. I was install in on pi 0 and run simple website with slide show, but for some reason its look like restarting after 2 slide. any one know why this can be happen? 2. Is there any version to run this on rpi4 I don't have any other rpi than 0W and 4?
I am getting an error when sd care is put in "8 flashes: SDRAM not recognized. You need a newer bootcode.bin/start.elf firmware, or your SDRAM is damaged. Using RP3 and able to run other things such as pi signage but not toldo technik
