Hi Frank Apologies in advance for a non-Perl answer to a Perl question :-)
In case you want to see what's already out there, the search engine term for you is "assistive technology". I only know this because I once had to advise a government funding body on the feasibility of a start-up's proposal for developing the kind of system you're referring to. Hope that's helpful! Andrew On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 8:20 PM, SSC_perl <p...@surfshopcart.com> wrote: > I'm looking to get some ideas on how to make an "information > station" for my mother who has the beginning stages of dementia. I want to > display information on her TV, like when her next meal is, time of day, > date, etc., which of course would change daily and throughout the day. > > I was thinking that I'd get a Raspberry Pi and program that to > retrieve text files from a server depending on the time of day. I don't > know how well the RPi handles Perl - it seems to be geared for Python. I > would need to be able to display text in any size and style. My first > though was to use HTML, but I don't want to use a browser to display the > text onscreen. Would this require a GUI, such as Tk? > > Has anyone done anything like this before? Am I on the right > track with my ideas or is there a better way of doing this? > > Thanks, > Frank > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- Andrew Solomon Mentor@Geekuni http://geekuni.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/asolomon
