[NTLUG:Discuss] Raspberry Pi Video Marquee Project

[terry]

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On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 11:33 AM, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:

> FYI: There is a new raspbian release
> image
> 2013-09-25-wheezy-raspbian.zip<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest>
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> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:41 PM, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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