LIfe Channel alternatives

[HodgeHi]

Hello,

I have ben asked to look into and cost up some life channel alternatives. I looked into Xibo briefly before we had Life Channel installed, and is one I will be looking into again as there has been some development since.

Can anyone recommend an alternative to the Life Channel. I also would like to provide a solution that allows for the embedding of Live TV, such as from a MythTV setup.

Thanks.

[plexer]

Concerto

Ben

[Blue_Cookeh]

Our Life Channel subscription is up this year (thank God, I wouldn't have signed up to it!) and I'm hoping to get Xibo running on a Raspberry Pi... seems like the perfect solution to me.

[HodgeHi]

The initial read about Concerto seems quite interesting. However, when trying got get it to run, it turned out to be a different story. I am not quite sure what is going on. When loading the page in Safari 5.1.5 I get a whole load of text looking like this

dChild('id', $content->id); $c_xml->addChild('title', htmlspecialchars($content->name)); $c_xml->addChild('user_id', $content->user_id); $c_xml->addChild('body', htmlspecialchars($content->content)); $c_xml->addChild('start_time', $content->start_time); $c_xml->addChild('end_time', $content->end_time); $c_xml->addChild('submitted', $content->submitted); } //echo $xml->asXML(); return $this->xml_handler($xml); } //Take XML and apply rules to generate content items function xml_handler($xml){ //Setup some defaults if needed if(is_numeric($this->rules['items_per_content'])){ $items_per_content = $this->rules['items_per_content']; } else { $items_per_content = 3; } if(is_numeric($this->rules['max_items'])){ $max_items = $this->rules['max_items']; } else { $max_items = 0; } //Process Header if(array_key_exists('header', $this->rules)){ $header_arr = $this->rules['header']; $header_template = ''; if(array_key_exists('template', $header_arr)){ $header_template = $header_arr['template']; //Populate it with the default template } if(is_array($hea...

At the bottom is the following errors

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/common/user.php:413) in /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/admin/index.php on line 103 Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/common/user.php:413) in /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/admin/index.php on line 103 Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/admin/app/pages/controller.php on line 61 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/common/user.php:413) in /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/admin/index.php on line 212

I'm not quite sure how to fix this.

The diagnostic page is rendering OK except there are no results being returned at all. I would accept bright red failed results at the moment.

[HodgeHi]

The initial read about Concerto seems quite interesting. However, when trying got get it to run, it turned out to be a different story. I am not quite sure what is going on. When loading the page in Safari 5.1.5 I get a whole load of text looking like this

dChild('id', $content->id); $c_xml->addChild('title', htmlspecialchars($content->name)); $c_xml->addChild('user_id', $content->user_id); $c_xml->addChild('body', htmlspecialchars($content->content)); $c_xml->addChild('start_time', $content->start_time); $c_xml->addChild('end_time', $content->end_time); $c_xml->addChild('submitted', $content->submitted); } //echo $xml->asXML(); return $this->xml_handler($xml); } //Take XML and apply rules to generate content items function xml_handler($xml){ //Setup some defaults if needed if(is_numeric($this->rules['items_per_content'])){ $items_per_content = $this->rules['items_per_content']; } else { $items_per_content = 3; } if(is_numeric($this->rules['max_items'])){ $max_items = $this->rules['max_items']; } else { $max_items = 0; } //Process Header if(array_key_exists('header', $this->rules)){ $header_arr = $this->rules['header']; $header_template = ''; if(array_key_exists('template', $header_arr)){ $header_template = $header_arr['template']; //Populate it with the default template } if(is_array($hea...

At the bottom is the following errors

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/common/user.php:413) in /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/admin/index.php on line 103 Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/common/user.php:413) in /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/admin/index.php on line 103 Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/admin/app/pages/controller.php on line 61 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/common/user.php:413) in /Volumes/Data/Websites/concerto/admin/index.php on line 212

I'm not quite sure how to fix this.

The diagnostic page is rendering OK except there are no results being returned at all. I would accept bright red failed results at the moment.

diag_screen.png

[eformula]

Hi

If you are still looking you might want to check out Noticeboardtv who are able to use the existing Life Channel equipment and save costs.

[Blue_Cookeh]

Hi

If you are still looking you might want to check out Noticeboardtv who are able to use the existing Life Channel equipment and save costs.

I requested a quote on keeping the equipment and it was into the £2000 mark... In the end I just bought our own TV bracket, 40" TV and a Sapphire Mini-PC Edge-HD to stick in our false ceiling for ~£650... works extremely well. Just going to build up a custom PHP site to manage content for the office staff and a front end scrip, probably in Python, to manage the information ticker and content playback.

I also looked into Xibo but didn't really like it... it was a little to techie oriented in my mind for the teaching staff to use.