We do something like this at this college, where we have monitors outside of every computer lab, listing the computers free, room reservation information and scheduling information. Its all handed by a central web page (http://labwatch.engin.umich.edu/labs/display-monitor.php if you're curious), so all the systems need to do is display a web page. The infrastructure for displaying the number of hosts free is complex and fraught with danger, so I'd rather avoid talking about it. :) The scheduling is an RSS feed, I believe.
Currently, we're running DVI over cat5 from a storage closet or some other locked room to these monitors mounted on the walls. We run a fairly pared down linux build that auto-logs in and runs firefox with a 'kiosk-mode' extension, which takes over the whole screen. Eventually, we'd like to replace that with something like a raspberry pi or some other low-power tiny system that just runs a web browser. On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]> wrote: > My company (a school district) wants to put large monitors in some of its > schools to act as digital signs for the kids so I am wondering how other > folks have done this? We have looked at both streaming from a central server > to them or using a local machine hooked up to the display. I am very > interested in what you use and what you like/dislike about it. -- Jonathan Billings <[email protected]> College of Engineering - CAEN - Unix and Linux Support _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
