Digital Signage

[Pat Duffy]

Hi all

We had an interesting thread here a few years back on digital signage. I'm hoping to re-open the discussion now to see if people have stuck with their suggestions (RiseVision / Google Slides / Screenly.io etc)

Am hoping to get a clean twitter feed with images running fullscreen on a Chromebook connected to a number of large TVs. Risevision does this beautifully, with animations, but apparently won't run on Chromebook

Freeware would be best, but can manage a small budget for this. Currently running Google Slides, which has it's advantages, especially collaboration, but something that pulls a clean social media feed, with no ads or other clutter, would be more conventient

Any suggestions welcome

Pat  

[Greg Ashe]

I am running RiseVision on several Chromeboxes so no reason why RV will not run on a CB! Have you tried it?

There is a full screen Twitter template available in RV too.

RV also supports Chromecasts

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[Pat Duffy]

Nope Greg, I just took their word for it that it wouldn't work 🤣(see attached) I'll give it a shot

Thx

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[Hassan Dabbagh]

Hi Pat 

I've started deploying (to anyone that wants them) a Pi Solution, it's very straightforward to setup and only has two moving parts : 

1) Pi (Full PageOS) can be installed from the Pi imager 

2) Kiosk is a cloud based solution that will display on the Pi, which will allow you to edit the content on the go or wherever you have a brower .

Workflow: 

1) principal and deputy have their own 3 slide google slides Embedded, (they can edit from their google drive) Very easy to do, open kiosk and choose embed google slides 

2) News feed running with news updated also on kiosk app

3) There's more skins that can be loaded as you need them from Kiosk but it's worth a visit and you won't be disappointed .

Caveat : I haven't tried to embed a twitter feed but based on what I can see it would be straight forward. 

Hassan Dabbagh

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Irish Community Archive Network

National Museum of Ireland

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Castlebar

Co. Mayo

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On Tue, 20 Sept 2022 at 11:37, Pat Duffy <padraigo...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Greg Ashe]

It does work fine - my Chromeboxes are managed and run in Kiosk mode they are all a few years old.

Create a new org unit called RV for your test Chromebook and then apply Kiosk-mode settings to this OU. Once you get it working on the CB you can plug in your TVs.

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[Imogen Bertin]

Sorry to report that screenly.io although sophisticated, and largely aimed at commercial markets, has got too expensive. There is a "free" version on Raspberry Pi but after reading the various forums I didn't feel my coding skills were up to it - might be fine for others. 

I did manage to get videos running on Screenly via Apple Keynote embedded slides. Our local community centre has not been able to find the budget since Covid, but we still have the Pi and screens, so I'm thinking I'll try Hassan's solution - but ideally I was hoping to run a second screen in the village shop (different location) for community notices - not sure if anyone has achieved dispersed-site signs? 

Thanks Pat for re-opening this subject. Has been near the bottom of my "to do" headaches list for a while...

Imogen

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[Greg Ashe]

Does the screen in the shop have internet? Or could it have? Then a Chromebox will work just fine with Risevision.

RV licensing 2 displays is about USD 250 for the year 

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[Hassan Dabbagh]

just a quick follow up, when I'm talking about kiosk I'm talking about https://www.kiosk.show NOT the inbuilt kiosk Mode on a laptop. 

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[Imogen Bertin]

Thanks Greg and Hassan. Risevision is similar in cost to Screenly, then. Though I had to beat them down on price. I'll have a look at Hassan's solution and see if it might work!

Best wishes

Imogen

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[Greg Ashe]

Also Google Chrome Sign Builder...

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[Pat Duffy]

Thanks Greg & all

Went with RiseVision, it's great 👌

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[Greg Ashe]

RV is great - they continue to improve and integration with Google Workspace is good - they have some great templates for pulling in events from Calendar

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[Andrew Howden]

Hello, We built a digital signage solution for schools that use Google Workspace: https://youtu.be/DBZcbYAc7Jc (https://www.signogic.co.uk/) we'd be happy to give a demo.

It uses an Amazon Firestick as a player, so it is cost-effective to set up and with integration into Google Drive etc. it is very easy to add content.

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