Thinking about Xibo - advice please

[mjgreen]

Hi all,

 

We have been using a paid for solution for digital signage which has, quite frankly, been a bit of a disaster.

 

I am hearing and reading a lot about Xibo and I think it might be the solution for us.

 

Firstly, its been years and years since I have ever done anything with Linux. I understand that the system was originally developed for Linux but there is a Windows version available. Does the Windows version work well? It would defenitly be my preference to stick with a Windows server solution if possible.

 

Also, does it 'plug in' to Moodle in anyway? I must admit I dont know too much about Moodle but it is something that we will be introducing in the near future and my colleague asked the question.

 

Thanks all!

[glennda]

There is no way to put it into moodle (that i know of).

 

You can install it on apache/mysql on windows (xamp i think its called)

 

Toby

[mjgreen]

Is Windows Server advisable or a Windows 7 machine?

 

Can i use a virtual machine?

[Mr.Ben]

Xibo does not directly plug into Moodle, however both can be run on XAMMP, so they could sit on the same server. I sit them both on a virtual Windows 2008R2 server.

 

Xibo can get its headlines from an RSS feed and you can use this to create an RSS feed from the iCal part of moodle: ical2rss: PHP script to convert iCalendar to RSS

(I can't vouch for this as I haven't tried it yet though!)

 

Regards, Ben

[mjgreen]

Awesome, thanks guys. Think I will seyp a VM and have a play with it

[Chris_Cook]

The windows client works well, the linux client is new, and doesn't support powerpoint shows IIRC. I've not tried the server app on a windows server. Ours is currently hosted on a virtual ubuntu server machine.

 

You can maybe display pages from moodle on xibo, so you don't have to update two systems. Authentication might be interesting. How were you thinking a moodle plugin would work? What would you want to use it for?

 

I think you can include the username and password in the url for basic http authentication. If you do that, you want to set up a new user with minimal access and no write access to anything, as the username and password can be sniffed off the network very easily. I think it would look something like

http://username:[email protected]/index.php

 

If you use the windows client and a domain login for the client pc, then you can use integrated windows authentication/ntlm.

Edited December 13, 2011 by Chris_Cook

[mjgreen]

To be honest I dont really know anything about Moodle. Unfortunatly our school is well behind in that area and we need to not just catch up, but jump ahead. My colleague is looking into it at the moment so he was just interested.

 

Anyway I am going to go ahead with a VM and give it a try

 

Many thanks to everyone