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SignMan - Digital Signage Manager

We had a bunch of flat screens at the Munich Maker Lab, but little use for them. So the all were put on the wall, and we decided to have them show random webpages and dashboards. However, configuring them all individually would have been a pain, so we needed something a little more automated. Cue the creation of SignMan.

SignMan allows you to manage a large group of screens and have them go through a list of websites, shown in full screen. The websites are managed and cued centrally, so all the screens need is a network connection.

In our setup, we use an OrangePi One board on each of the screens, running Armbian. They all connect to the SignMan server over HTTP, and then show one of the URLs we configured in the server component.

Components

  • Server - Server with WebUI to manage the screens
  • Client - Client component run on the screen's computer boards

signman's People

Contributors

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signman's Issues

Automate DB migrations

Every time we change something at the schema, we either need to manually migrate the database or nuke the db. Find a way to make that automated.

No hardcoded URLs

There are some hardcoded URLs in the server, such as the address of the server itself, or the default website. That should be fixed, by having some sort of configuration view, or dynamically determining the URLs

Generate the client script on the server

Instead of downloading the client separately, it should be generated on the server. Even better if it were to be auto-installed, thinking of something along the lines of curl http://signman/client_install | bash (yes, I know, not so nice, but we gotta start somewhere)

Description field for the URLs

The URL view is confusing if you don't use speaking urls. Add a mandatory unique description field and use that in the sign/url view instead of the URL

Client HowTo

How to setup a client?

  • Requirements
  • Best practices

No unnecessary browser restarts

The client restarts the browser every time its cron job is run. That shouldn't be necessary, or should at least be made optional

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