digital signage

hi all,

i'm looking at setting up digital signage for a small cafe that will have the menu displayed on 3 tv's

each tv will be running a different slide. was thinking of running 3 x raspberry pi for each display. the menu will not be updated frequently - was thinking of just running them as a pdf/ppt file on full screen and just remotely updating them if necessary

does anyone have experience in this area?

cheers

 

I've used Infocaster in the past - http://www.imaginecommunications.com/products/playout/digital-signage/infocaster in the past, and did not have a good experience.

If I was doing it again, I'd probably look at some of the open source solutions on the market.

Xibo - https://xibo.org.uk/
Concerto - http://www.concerto-signage.org/

 

Screenly OSE http://www.screenly.io/

The OSE version will get you started.

If your running digital signage make sure you have spares Pi’s/SD cards with software ready to go. Disable the wireless and change the default logins.

Have a graphics designer design a professional looking template which you can easily update.

 

There is a reason even after 30+ years of this tech that most cafe's and restaurants still use chalk boards.

+1 xibo https://github.com/xibosignage/xibo

 

I think there are about a dozen open source signage tools out there now, all RPi compatible. I Googled it to check up on it, and found them all to be quite improved from last time I checked.

They all seem to do the same thing. Play around with a few and see what suits.

 

+1 xibo. we sparingly use it at my org, and it's been great.

 

xibo is great, set it up at a school I was working at, foolproof interface and the client will run on almost anything, there had been talk of an unofficial rpi client for it as well
other schools I know of that have used it have used the intel stick pc's for the client side