[OPLINTECH] Help with digital advestisement

[Joe]

We use concerto, which is an open source server-client based program for 
doing this.
The server runs a simple LAMP and the client is just a web browser 
pointing at a specified address that the server cycles feeds through.  
The neat thing, is that you can include more than one message on a 
single feed.  For instance, on ours in addition to the main 
picture/advertisement, there is also the time and weather along a column 
to one side and a space for a tag line at the bottom..

As a solution, it's designed for larger installations (it was designed 
to push digital signage across a college campus), so would make more 
sense in a multiple client/multiple location situation.

For just one display, I like Chad and Don's solutions better.

Thanks.

Joe

Joseph Knueven
Director
Germantown Public Library
51 N. Plum St.
Germantown, OH 45327
937-855-4001
knuevejo at oplin.org

On 11/24/2014 3:47 PM, Don Yarman wrote:
> We do an even poorer man's version: we load image files on a USB
> drive, plug it into the TV, and set it to slide-show mode.
>
>                  Don Yarman, Deputy Director
>                  Delaware County District Library
>                  84 E Winter St; Delaware OH 43015
>                  yarmando at delawarelibrary.org  740.362.3861
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> Currently listening to "Waistcoats & Weaponry" by Gail Carriger,
> and reading "The Necromancer's House" by Christopher Buehlman.
>
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> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Chad Neeper <cneeper at level9networks.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>> ______________________________
>> Chad Neeper
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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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>>
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>>>
>>> Fred Miller Jr
>>>
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