Hiya, I currently run PiCorePlayer and Jivelite on my Raspberry Pi w 7" touch screen. I additionally have an IR receiver attached to GPIO so that it can be controlled by a squeezebox IR remote. I use it to control a Squeezebox Receiver, while also giving it a good looking "Now Playing" screen. However, Jivelite doesn't show a clock on the Now Playing screen, and can't be (easily) customised to do so. So I have the clock screensaver currently enabled, which is great as a clock, but not so great when I want to see what song is playing.
So I'm thinking of playing around with running the Material Skin instead. I think it's better visually, too. However, I was wondering two things: 1) would it work with a Squeezebox remote control? What would i need to install to get it to work with my GPIO IR receiver? Or would a Flirc USB device be easier to set up? 2) does anyone know of either a pre-rolled free distro that supports a 'web kiosk' mode for the Raspberry Pi? Basically I want it to work like PiCorePlayer where everything runs from a RAM Disk so that power can be cut without risk of data loss/corruption. I found this one: https://www.binaryemotions.com/digital-signage/raspberry-digital-signage/ but it's 17.90 and I couldn't get the free version to find my WiFi network, plus it doesn't seem to support installing extras - so no IR. Does anyone know of anything similar? Alternatively, is there a way to turn Raspbian into a RAM-only distro, but with a method to write changes to disk (such as the cookies once Material is set up). I know in PiCorePlayer + Jivelite there is a setting to "write settings to SD card" so that next time you boot they are saved, but if I'm hacking Raspbian to run from a ramdisk, then I wouldn't think a 'write to sd' option would exist, right? Thanks all for your input! active: 1x transporter | 3x receiver | 2x raspberry pi (1x 2b, 1x 3b) w/ picoreplayer, jivelite, 7\" touch screen (controlling 2x receivers) | orangesqueeze as android controller deprecated: 2x classic | 2x boom | 2x controllers (aka the dark and terrible things that shall not be used again) lms v8.1.1 running as a docker in unraid on a hp microserver gen8 5410 albums with 44158 songs by 9914 artists - and always growing ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JadeMonkee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20481 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109624
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