fiza Posted February 29, 2016 Posted February 29, 2016 Can anyone recommend hardware to be used as an xibo client? I want something which is around £100 and small. I was looking at the Intel Compute stick but I can only find it with Windows 10 home. Not sure if this will suffice?
pantscat Posted February 29, 2016 Posted February 29, 2016 It should work ok - all it needs is a network connection to the Xibo server. From a management point of view you might not be happy with having Windows 10 home though... A 1
fiza Posted February 29, 2016 Author Posted February 29, 2016 It should work ok - all it needs is a network connection to the Xibo server. From a management point of view you might not be happy with having Windows 10 home though... A Don't want to open up any security holes for students to exploit. Any other options?
pantscat Posted February 29, 2016 Posted February 29, 2016 No reason why it should, really. Stick your Xibo clients on a separate VLAN that student PCs can't get to.
caffrey Posted February 29, 2016 Posted February 29, 2016 Look at cenevo, or meegopad - there are a lot of clones out there. I can't vouch for them but it's something I've considered
pete Posted February 29, 2016 Posted February 29, 2016 Just as a FYI, the Intel Compute Sticks (Windows versions) have problems with Windows updates. See: https://communities.intel.com/thread/97522?start=0&tstart=0 You might want to hold off until Intel & Microsoft gets that sorted.
Norphy Posted February 29, 2016 Posted February 29, 2016 Something like this plus the Xibo Android client? Yes, that costs but the combined cost is still less than £100 1
GRitchie Posted February 29, 2016 Posted February 29, 2016 Doesn't need to be of a high spec at all tbh. It's only a CMS, I use a Linux based box. It is an i3/4GB RAM mind, but we had it laying around... The clients don't need much either. I've got a pentium 2GB RAM for one of them, and I'm sure it could run with even lower spec!
fiza Posted February 29, 2016 Author Posted February 29, 2016 No reason why it should, really. Stick your Xibo clients on a separate VLAN that student PCs can't get to. We don't utilise VLANs here.
fiza Posted February 29, 2016 Author Posted February 29, 2016 (edited) Something like this plus the Xibo Android client? Yes, that costs but the combined cost is still less than £100 @Norphy - Have you used one of those sumvision devices? do you uninstall everything except the OS and then load the xibo Android client? doesn't look like it has wireless. I was hoping to avoid having to pull up an Ethernet connection for xibo. Edited February 29, 2016 by fiza
Norphy Posted February 29, 2016 Posted February 29, 2016 (edited) I've not used the Sumvision boxes, no but I have used something similar who's name escapes me right now. It was in a previous workplace, @Roberto will probably remember it. I'm pretty sure the widget had wifi. We didn't uninstall everything, we just put the Xibo app on it. /edit Think it must have been a Minix one. This one is on Xibo's recommended hardware list and it has WiFi. Edited February 29, 2016 by Norphy
zag Posted February 29, 2016 Posted February 29, 2016 The new Raspberry pi 3 might work well? It has wireless too.
caffrey Posted February 29, 2016 Posted February 29, 2016 Is it working on RPi now ? Last time I looked it was still iffy, but that was back in the RPi 1 days
Roberto Posted March 1, 2016 Posted March 1, 2016 I've not used the Sumvision boxes, no but I have used something similar who's name escapes me right now. It was in a previous workplace, @Roberto will probably remember it. I'm pretty sure the widget had wifi. We didn't uninstall everything, we just put the Xibo app on it. /edit Think it must have been a Minix one. This one is on Xibo's recommended hardware list and it has WiFi. It was minix but we've subsequently had concerns about the long term quality of the boxen :-( Watch this space, as they say. 1
VeryPC_Anthony_L Posted March 1, 2016 Posted March 1, 2016 Been looking at the Intel Compu Sticks in the last week and although they look good I have heard varying comments myself on what they are like. I have personally not tested them so cannot fully comment. For a digital signage system I generally advise people to get something like an Intel NUC type machine and to have a hard wired connection. Although these are more expensive it is much easier to install an operating system on. Specs wise most players do not need to be anything special so a Pentium or Celeron machine would suffice with something like 2gb - 4gb of ram with 60gb hard drive. The reason I recommend having a wired connection is more for speed. Many signage systems use a streaming approach which would work much more effectively over a wired connection. If you are using wireless and the AP is having to handle lots of connections this can become judddery/ take longer to load content. Just my thoughts.
Ant Posted March 1, 2016 Posted March 1, 2016 Budget and space was my limiting factor so use Minix Neo X5 Minis. Seem to be working fine for us. I have also experimented with an Amazon Fire TV Stick we had lying around, but found it a bit sluggish.
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