Using pi as a wifi text display?

[lordluca]

Hi, I'm new here, so please be nice

I'd like to use pi as a remote text display managed from android device.
So:

Pi is connected to TV and via wifi to the internet. And it is in my let's say shop.

I want to send a message from my tablet that I'm stuck in the traffic and the shop will be open in 30 minutes so the TV in my shop window will display it as a full screen still or scrolling text message

Can you suggest any soft that can do that?

Thank guys:)

[sprinkmeier]

Draft:
RasPi in kiosk mode serving a page from localhost, ssh in and update the page (using vi of course :-)


First hurdle to overcome would be how you communicate with the Pi
port forwarding? tweet? email?

[lordluca]

I'm new to pi, so is there any step by step tutorials out there to cover this things?
I'm not the Linux guy (yet) so this is all not very clear for me, but I want to learn

[sprinkmeier]

not sure about complete instructions for the particular project you have in mind, but there are instructions for the individual steps.
Search for "kiosk mode" to set up a Pi that'll launch a browser in full-screen mode on boot.
Get it to load a local file, a simple one with auto-refresh and marquee text (or some modern equivalent, it's been a while since I've done HTML :-)
To talk to your pi, check out "port forwarding" and "remote access" to see if you can get access to your pi from the outside world.
Or look at some libraries that can folow a twitter feed, or read email or something. Anything to let you get a bit of text to your Pi from your phone.
Then all you need is a little glue..

[lordluca]

That helps a lot!

Thanks friend, i'll go this way

[fruitoftheloom]

Raspbian Jessie OS & kweb browser in Kiosk Mode

viewtopic.php?f=66&t=40860

Remote access to the RPi over the Internet see:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... taccess.md

[lordluca]

ok, so i finally got it installed... now, can You tell/show/link me how to put a simple text message on raspberry's display from my phone via internet?

thx

Raspbian Jessie OS & kweb browser in Kiosk Mode

viewtopic.php?f=66&t=40860

Remote access to the RPi over the Internet see:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... taccess.md