[OPLINTECH] Digital Signage

[Jessica D. Dooley]

Neat solutions!

 

If you have multiple displays at different sites to manage, Mvix Ceeno
products may be worth a look. Purchase their networked digital signage box
to serve as the "brain" of your display, and create, host, update, schedule,
and distribute content to all your displays from the CMS web interface. I
haven't yet used it, but I like the sound of it!
http://www.icatsignage.com/tour/ 

 

Jessica D. Dooley

IT Specialist

Adams County Public Library

dooleyje at oplin.org

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[mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] On Behalf Of Ken Butler
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:15 AM
To: oplintech at lists.oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Digital Signage

 

That looks pretty sweet Eric! We may have to look into that. 

 

We have used two different programs, one free and one that is a bit pricey.
The free one you can find at http://xibo.org.uk/. The install process is a
little lengthy - prepare to spend a morning on install and an afternoon
setting everything up how you want it and learning to navigate through the
web UI, but once it is set up, it's quite nice. One advantage with Xibo is
that you can access the web UI from any computer on your local network; just
type in the ip address of the computer with /xibo attached.

 

The paid solution that we are currently using is Digital Signage Assistant,
which can be found at http://www.bayscan.com/digital-signage-assistant.html.
The only downside with this software is that they are really picky about the
licensing. You can only have one "server" computer on which the actual
signage software runs, and one "client" computer that controls the server
and updates content. 

 

Either of these will do powerpoint presentations quite nicely, and should
even allow for embedded video. You may need to tinker a bit to get all the
effects and animations in powerpoint to work properly. I would personally
recommend Xibo. The time it takes to set it up is well worth the robust web
interface, and being able to access it via any LAN computer is handy. And of
course, it's free!

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Eric Lochtefeld <elochtefeld at oplin.org>
wrote:

"I was looking at digital signage and found this site.  Is anyone using
digital signage from digitalsignage.com?  What digital signage software are
others using and would you recommend it?"

We just recently added a digital sign. We only have one output so we just
use the free website: Prezi.com
You can see what we did here: http://prezi.com/l__i_angidid/digital-sign/

Eric Lochtefeld
Mercer County District Library
Library Assistant / I.T. Specialist
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