TV Display

[Badaz52]

Hi,

 

We have a few TVs around school that display various bits of information to staff & visitors. At the moment we just do this by hooking up a PC somewhere in a cupboard and sending the signal via VGA/CAt5 video extenders to the TV's. This works OK but there is no scalability and it requires a PC every time. We have just been asked to install another 4 TVs and I'm thinking there has to be a better way than this. At some point in the past I was made aware of a product by Samsung I think it was whereby you have a piece of software sat on the network that you can configure with your information and then special TV/monitors with network ports that can receive this information.

 

Just wondered what type of software you use to do this? I don't want to have to install a PC every time.

[FN-GM]

We use Xibo on Intel Computesticks. Works really well. Every thing is managed via a web interface. The Computestick is technically a Windows machines so it might not be what you're after.

[DrCheese]

You can also get LG TV's that allow you install Xibo straight on them, which saves the hassle of having another computer nearby (& allows proper network management of power on/off times)

 

I've just bought one for reception, but we're awaiting power being ran to it before I can properly review it. (Fall back is HDMI input is still a thing if no good!)

[Katy]

We also use Xibo on Intel ComputeSticks (used to use tiny Dell Optiplex which originally had XP embedded on). Also they have released the WebOS client as mentioned above for the newer LG screens, think it's £120 a go though (vs free for the windows client although obviously if you're buying new hardware it makes no difference really - we're using the £115 intel sticks for ours and just re-installing Win 10 Enterprise 32bit over the top of the Win 10 Home 32 bit)

[skell]

Depending on what you want to display, we install Screenly onto Raspberry Pis. Works well for us.

[christhetech]

I've used Xibo before and it's very good and really simple to set up.

Depending on the screens that you are using, you can also upload the relevant information to them directly from a USB stick, or you could go with media players. There are plenty of cheap and cheerful Atom based mini PCs on the market, that can be set up as dedicated media players, if that's the way you wanted to go. They are small enough to be attached to the back of the screen, so they can't be seen. You can even go even smaller and have Raspberry Pi's running digital media if you wanted to.

[PD1279]

How about Rise Vision on Raspberry Pi

https://www.risevision.com/customers/education-1

[keyboards]

We use chomrebits, can easily remote into them, can easily change what is displayed, just give staff access to the slide etc and never have to worry again

[supportman]

Any solutions for Google Android TVs? We are getting a few of those soon and I stupidly assumed there would be some kind of app for it to work.

 

Should really have done some research!

[xowainx]

I came to post something similar to this, so to potentially avoid starting a new thread, if I wanted to stream the BBC News from iPlayer to a few TV Screens around the school, is there a simple way of doing it?

[PD1279]

As long on both wifi network should be able to screenshare somehow - this is answer to "supportman"

[Marci]

I came to post something similar to this, so to potentially avoid starting a new thread, if I wanted to stream the BBC News from iPlayer to a few TV Screens around the school, is there a simple way of doing it?

 

Technically a breach of their terms of use unless you've sought specific permission from them.

 

you’ll need permission if you want to use iPlayer to play a programme or clip to an audience.

(Can I reuse BBC content for my business? - Using the BBC)