Dan_08 Posted January 27, 2020 Posted January 27, 2020 We have a TV in the main reception of our business. I would like to display any key events we have coming up or any important information. I would also like to display the BBC news live. Is there any free software that is user friendly that could do all this?
caffrey Posted January 27, 2020 Posted January 27, 2020 Look up XIBO as it's one of the more popular ones, other options include chromebits etc. 1
jthompson Posted January 27, 2020 Posted January 27, 2020 Getting the live feed of BBC News might be a bit fiddly as I expect you'd need to get through an iPlayer sign-in page to do it. An alternative there is to purchase something like this and attach it to your LAN - https://www.silicondust.com/product/hdhomerun-duo/. You can then stream any FreeView channel from it as a bog standard RTSP stream, which I'm sure you could include within a XIBO layout. 1
DrBeaker Posted January 27, 2020 Posted January 27, 2020 Getting the live feed of BBC News might be a bit fiddly as I expect you'd need to get through an iPlayer sign-in page to do it. An alternative there is to purchase something like this and attach it to your LAN - https://www.silicondust.com/product/hdhomerun-duo/. You can then stream any FreeView channel from it as a bog standard RTSP stream, which I'm sure you could include within a XIBO layout.Thanks!. I've been looking fof something similar to this for ages myself. They were either too complicated, too expensive, didn't work as promised looking at reviews etc. We had BBC News working through iPlayer via Xibo at one point years ago, but they changed something and we couldn't get it to work properly again. If the RSTP stream works that would be ideal.
jthompson Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 Slight correction, if you have an HDHomeRun and point a web browser to it, you'll get a channel list with a URL for each. The URLs aren't RTSP but HTTP. They can be opened as a network stream in VLC.
sted Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 something like a raspberry pi/chromebit/chromebox displaying a google slides presentation? i think you can embed stuff like bbc news feeds in a sheet 1
Danp Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 Have a look at Yodeck, we use this for all our screens now.
keyboards Posted February 3, 2020 Posted February 3, 2020 Ideally I'd go chromebox/stick but free wise, potentially create a slide and just navigate the TV to the url of that slide. VLC can to, but been years since I've done it
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