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Can anyone recommend a signage/kiosk OS and/or software for Raspberry Pi?

Use case: we display weather, cafeteria meal plan, clock, and news on some screens in the hallway. We used to use Screenly OSE, but it doesn’t work any more for reasons unknown. We are looking for an open-source solution that doesn’t require any cloud accounts.

#AskFedi

12 Oct 2022 at 9:26 | Open on fosstodon.org
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@kytta I'm preparing one for my employer as we speak. I've chosen linuxliteos.com/ for OS (on a Intel NUC but Rpi -especially rpi3 or 4) shouldn´t be a problem. It starts up without asking for an account or password and can be remote managed thru ssh and vnc. It has Chromium pre-installed so I use that. It can be configured to run full screen en automatically load a page.

12 Oct 2022 at 9:33 | Open on mastodon.social
totoroot

@kytta Two years ago, I used #FullPageOS for a project and was happy with how easy it was to set up :raspberrypi:
You give it a list of webpages and it can headlessly launch them after boot in a fullscreen Chromium instance.
IIRC you can set the duration between webpages to an arbitrary value (e.g. display every webpage 30s or 1h)
Last Release was in May of last year, so I'm not sure, if everything still works and is safe to use, but you might want to give it a try:
github.com/guysoft/FullPageOS

12 Oct 2022 at 10:05 | Open on fosstodon.org
Григорий Клюшников

Run a browser full screen without a window manager?

12 Oct 2022 at 11:00
Nikita

@grishka sure, but I'd prefer a more finished solution, that is easy to maintain and to install from ground up if something breaks

12 Oct 2022 at 11:16 | Open on fosstodon.org
Clayton Errington 🖥️

@kytta I’ve been wondering the same thing as well. Helping a friend startup a business and he needs a digital signage solution too!

12 Oct 2022 at 22:21 | Open on mstdn.social
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