[OPLINTECH] Help with digital advestisement

[Chad Neeper]

Recently did a poor-man's version of this with an old computer hooked to a
nice, large LCD display. The pc was PXE-network booted to ThinStation,
which then launched Chrome web browser in kiosk mode (full screen) and
pointed to an un-linked-to page on the library's local web server.  I
tossed in a page that automatically scrolled through .jpg pictures pulled
from a folder on the web server at 60-second intervals. Very simplistic,
but also pretty flexible. Since the computer just points to a web page, the
web developer is free to make the page as complex as he/she wants... or
just leave my sample page in place and simply create new jpgs to drop in
the folder. To date, I think the library has just tossed new jpgs into the
folder and left it at that. Seems to work pretty well, especially for the
price (all open source software, just cost of a nice big display).

If you want something even simpler, do away with the whole PXE remote boot
thing and just manually point a browser to your web page and run with it.

YMMV,
Chad


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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Fred Miller Jr. <millerfr at oplin.org> wrote:

> The ACPDL is looking at displaying upcoming programs and digital display
> banners on a big monitor mounted on a wall. Was wanting to know what kind
> of programs I can look at to help get this setup started and run the
> advertisements for the library.
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