[NTLUG:Discuss] Raspberry Pi Video Marquee Project

[terry]

FYI: There is a new raspbian release
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2013-09-25-wheezy-raspbian.zip<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest>


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:41 PM, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure I care if geeqie stalls when images are added to it's working
> directory.  Now that I have set it up and have the canteen PC set to access
> the nfs share - the Canteen PC is for anyone to use so someone could place
> an  image in the marquee directory - it is not likely, but if they do, it
> just stops and won't show the new image, until such time as I restart it,
> (or someone authorized - someone who has been taught the process).
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> There will be changes made at least once a week.  I plan to make it as
> easy as possible and teach at least two or three others the process, but it
> has to be fairly easy or I wont be able to get anyone interested in doing
> it.
>
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> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:46 AM, CoryC <oakleeman at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Ralph likely will have some insight on this as he is working on something
>> similar I think.
>>
>> I took a slightly different approach and use the following to setup my
>> RPIs at work to boot and open a full-screen browser to a web page:
>>
>> http://lokir.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/raspberry-pi-kiosk-mode-with-chromium/
>>
>>
>> Right now I'm just pointing them to zenoss report pages but am
>> experimenting with www.geckoboard.com to setup scrolling dashboards that
>> the RPIs boot to. Then I don't have to connect to the RPIs to change what
>> is shown but instead just change the content from the website.
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