Information display screens around the school?

[CAM]

Will have to tinker with that piece of code over the hols.

 

Unfortunately Xibo looks set to be a no-go. The guy managing our network believes the bandwidth constraints will be too high. The example was 4x50Mb preentations making 200Mb bandwidth.

Edited July 16, 2009 by CAM

[steveg]

According to the Xibo site, the client will only pull the content from the server once, and then check for updates at set times. So if you only update the content once a day, thats only 200mb a day, which is nothing really.

 

Steve

[tsimons]

we used digital signage few weeks and it was horrid.

The "Computers" they use to display dont work and kept breaking..

 

We are now with "The Life Channel" who are AMAZING!

The Life Channel: Home

 

Take a look

[plexer]

Will have to tinker with that piece of code over the hols.

 

Unfortunately Xibo looks set to be a no-go. The guy managing our network believes the bandwidth constraints will be too high. The example was 4x50Mb preentations making 200Mb bandwidth.

 

Hardly much of an issue really on a modern switched network.

 

Surely it can pull the data when no-one else will be using it like early in the morning?

 

Ben

[CAM]

Depends if I can schedule movie clips for night time and text-based room changes for when I get in.

[TwoZeroAlpha]

Depends if I can schedule movie clips for night time and text-based room changes for when I get in.

 

You can pretty much, there's an option in the client for how often it checks for updates. If the machine is to be on 24/7 then you just need to schedule the delay so that it updates at night. However this won't allow text based changes to go over instantly.

 

My refresh timeout is 5mins, excessive maybe, but content is there pretty much as I add it.

 

Steveg is correct, once the data is over it's only the changes that get pulled down. My xibo client is wireless and has a skynews feed. I've not noticed any drop in network or internet speed.

 

Finally 4x50mb presentations!!! wow, what are you putting in them!

 

If you want to show movie clips you could always put them locally on the client machine and use

 

 

or something similar. Then you can just modify the movies on the share and it should reload automatically, better still if you couple it with the meta refresh tag.

[CAM]

the 50MB presentations were his example. Occasionally they go higher if I get a lot of images to display. Generally they are closer to 10MB.

[ptotham]

we have start using xibo only on one display so far but seems very good, we have alot of streams and widget from the internet so far so good, going to start playing with power point presentation at some point, we currently use one las boxes as well but were looking for some that easier to managed and rather than buying more one lan boxes that are expensive we using up old kit and xibo client doesnt need anything special. Plus i believe some files you put into the local xibo folder on the machine so it doesn't pull across the network.