boogster Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 Hi I have been asked to look into getting a solution in the staff room where by staff can see a diary of the week digitally instead of having to write onto notice board all the time. Something like a 50" screen but I am unsure as to what software/hardware to run this from. Can be a networked option or just standalone. Any idea guys Thanks
synaesthesia Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 Xibo is awesome, and the new (currently alpha) release is wonderfully quick. Testing it at the moment on a linux VM. Easy enough to use and manage, we've started doing this very thing ourselves with signage in certain areas. You can have different displays showing different things, overall themes, embed pretty much anything you want. And it's free, and works rather well on some older Atom miniITX machines we decommissioned this year. 3
jonwitts Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 My plus one for Xibo. The server side is great and I am just starting to test the very reasonably priced Android App for the remote screens! 1
mdench Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 Another +1 for xibo we used to use it for just main screens across the site but it seems to have taken off this year with the canteen using it for menus, english, geography and languages have just had screens fitted along with music having a tv so they have sound. All the departments have been shown how to use not had to help them since. On one occasion it was me going away to google something to work out how the teacher had managed to do something. We have it running on our internal facing webserver VM with the clients being HP supermicro pcs core 2 duo 2 GB ram. Though running out of these so will probs get some acer revo or similar. Connected to either 50" LG tvs or 27" philips LED screens they are beautiful i want to steal them and put them on my desk! 1
box_l Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 The Xibo Android app is working well for me too. No powerpoint support yet though? Much cheaper and easier than a pc based setup. Just bought 6 more TVs and HDMI sticks. 1
boogster Posted October 4, 2013 Author Posted October 4, 2013 Many thanks guys for info. Has anyone got any info on Xibo and how to set it up/configure etc. Thanks
3s-gtech Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 The info on the Xibo website is great (and covers all the issues I've ever encountered). Xibo - Digital Signage You can also set up the server side of it on an IIS server, if you're so inclined (we did this as we were retiring the old Linux host, but it's generally better on Linux). 1
boogster Posted October 4, 2013 Author Posted October 4, 2013 We require the monitor in the staffroom and the office based staff to be able to update information on it, is this capable and also what PC/hardware would you recommend to hook up to the monitor. Is there any web based solutions also out there?
synaesthesia Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 You can run Xibo over the web if you want to - as said the computer doesn't have to be powerful (we use atoms ala cheap little netbooks). You can set up Xibo how you like, make user accounts and have those accounts only able to change certain screens etc. It's very customisable.
fiza Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 The Xibo Android app is working well for me too. No powerpoint support yet though? Much cheaper and easier than a pc based setup. Just bought 6 more TVs and HDMI sticks. would you let me know what sticks you purchased and how much? Looking at doing the same.
box_l Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 SAMSUNG 32IN F5000 LED TV RIKOMAGIC QUAD CORE MK802IV - 8GB FLASH + BLUETOOTH (has HDMI scaling issues with this TV, not tested yet with the 50" ones yet, but works fine with some older 19" LG sets) Quite hard to get hold of in the UK, I had to get it from china. Point of View HDMI Smart TV Dongle with Wireless Keyboard : Media Adaptors : Maplin Electronics I think it's a re-branded MK802III This works great with the 32" TV BoX 1
fiza Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 This one? Rikomagic RKM MK802IV Quad Core Mini TV Box Player RK3188 Cortex A9 + 8GB Flash + Bluetooth + Android 4.2: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories
box_l Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 Yes, but the school cannot purchase from amazon. boX
fiza Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 Yes, but the school cannot purchase from amazon. boX The School cant order from amazon but can from China??
box_l Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 Heh, no. A third party who also provided the TVs could. We have now ordered 6 of the Maplins point of view sticks.
dean41 Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 we've just setup xibo. Raspberry pi sat behind a 32" tv. Got the whole setup for less that £400. Not bad considering a few companies were trying to charge us upwards of £4000 Got Xibo running Google calendar in one corner. BBC news in top corner. and daily bulletin scrolling across the bottom.
Chris_ Posted October 5, 2013 Posted October 5, 2013 we've just setup xibo. Raspberry pi sat behind a 32" tv. Got the whole setup for less that £400. Not bad considering a few companies were trying to charge us upwards of £4000 Got Xibo running Google calendar in one corner. BBC news in top corner. and daily bulletin scrolling across the bottom. How have you got it running on a Raspberry pi? I didn't think there was a client that worked on the pi yet.
caffrey Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 Is xibo working okay on the PI ? trying to get something acceptable to run on it but its really slow
jonwitts Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 We have it running on these: MINIX NEO X7mini - MINIX with the Android client licensed from Spring Signage https://springsignage.com/xibo-for-android/ and it is running really well. The box and license comes in at under £120 each... 1
caffrey Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 Hrrm they looks suspiciously like another device which I can't quite put my finger on... I've some PC's that would do the job (acer revo's) but I've another 2 displays to put in and I wanted to see if raspberry PIs had matured - android seems like a good idea for lower power.
Mr.Ben Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) We are using Intel NUC's with 27" TV's across the school. Last year's model (Celeron based) will only set you back £160 after including a 32Gb mSATA SSD and 2Gb RAM. They have dual HDMI outputs, which means we can have displays facing in both directions. The newer versions only have a single output :-( Total cost for each installation (with 2 screens) is around £320 using xibo Edited January 21, 2014 by Mr.Ben 1
caffrey Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 I've everything feeding back to a cab thanks to some HDMI over Cat5 adapters (saves space behind the TV) but cab space is an issue too! Nucs sound interesting
Mr.Ben Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 Just to note that you'll need to add another £40 if you want to run Windows, but offset that with the knowledge that the NUC's come with VESA Mounting plates that can be put on the back of a monitor or directly onto a flat surface. And the box they come in makes the Intel sound when you open it (All worth it just for that).
caffrey Posted January 21, 2014 Posted January 21, 2014 Advantage of the NUC appears to be the two hdmi, that saves running 2 x RPi's (I need to run on 2 screens), time to see if there's anything left in the budget ;p
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