Hi guys,
Recently I stumble on Concerto in my search for a CMS system I can use to advertise contend on sites my company manages.
The requirement was cheap, only photos, to be able to change multiple photos on a single TV, to be able to change content on demand, on schedule, to be able to run on an android devices or/and browsers, and so on.
All of this is supported by Concerto, so I went to GitHub and downloaded OVA image file (
Concerto 2.3.6), run in on VirtualBox initially, then converted its drive as vhdx so I can run it on the Hyper-V cluster I manage and set it up successfully.
Configured some screens, attached content on them and tested it with a browser on my PC following the link
http://my-concerto-srv-ip/frontend/1 and incremented number for the rest of the screens.
Also tested in on some android 7.0 devices using
ConcertoTV_0_2_0.apk I also downloaded from GitHub. Runs great for now.
Doing that made me think a little and this is the place where I can ask questions:
1. How many screens I can configure, is someone running a large amount of screens using frontend? How stable Concerto is if 200+ screens are created in it?
2. Is there a way to keep the content on the browser or ConcertoTV_0_2_0 app if the connectivity is temporary lost?
(for example a few hours a device is offline, but operational or a certain site losses connection to the Head Office where the concerto server is located) 3. is there a way to set custom number for the link of a screen?
(example: instead of http:/my-concerto-srv-ip/frontend/17 to be http:/my-concerto-srv-ip/frontend/310201, where 3102 is the site number and 01 is the screen number of this particular site. We manage sites with internal company numeration like 3102, 3106, 3112 and many more.)
4. Concerto's content. How large can the content base become, before Concerto starts experiencing issues and unable to accept new pictures as content? Is there some storage limitations, database limitations? Current drive size is 8 GB and I plan to extend it at least to 100GB to accommodate content. (pictures my team will upload in the future)
5. is there some pluggins to review all the uploaded content, regarding if it is expired or active? I know clicking on a username will show me all the content the content already uploaded, but only by the specific user I clicked on, not all of the content that exist inside Concerto.
I still test it to determine if it will suit our needs and more questions can arise in the future, so I will update this conversation in this case.