Raspberry Pi signage solution/operating system?

[tony power]

I need a good solution to play videos/media offline saved on raspberry pi on signage but can be managed from lan using ip of raspberry pi connected to LAN.
Also I want it to boot automatically and play videos depending on settings configured.


I found screenly but from description I can tell that is made to play remote videos from links/share with caching if it goes offline.

I am travelling for work and tomorrow I will get my pi back to download/test signage operating systems.

Please give suggestions.

[B.Goode]

Please give suggestions

PiPresents and Minimal Kiosk Browser are two more options for Digital Signage.

For further options, a search with an internet search tool for a string like "raspberry pi digital signage" will return a number of hits worth investigating.

[fruitoftheloom]

http://www.binaryemotions.com/digital-s ... l-signage/

[tony power]

Please give suggestions

PiPresents and Minimal Kiosk Browser are two more options for Digital Signage.

For further options, a search with an internet search tool for a string like "raspberry pi digital signage" will return a number of hits worth investigating.

I did it without any os for signage just used raspbian and omxplayer pre-installed by default

Created folder and put all mp4 videos there

Created bash script named videoplayer.sh to run after boot directly

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#!/bin/sh

# get rid of the cursor so we don't see it when videos are running
setterm -cursor off

# set here the path to the directory containing your videos
VIDEOPATH="/mnt/storage/videos" 

# you can normally leave this alone
SERVICE="omxplayer"

# now for our infinite loop!
while true; do
        if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null
        then
        sleep 1;
else
        for entry in $VIDEOPATH/*
        do
                clear
                omxplayer -r $entry > /dev/null
        done
fi
done

Then booted thr bash script by putting this line in /etc/rc.local
Before exit 0 line

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/home/pi/videoplayer.sh &

Finally ssh is enabled to access and upload videos via sftp using filezila

[vpetersson]

I found screenly but from description I can tell that is made to play remote videos from links/share with caching if it goes offline.
/quote]

From your description, Screenly would be a great fit. Screenly OSE (the open source version) is designed to be a stand-alone version. You upload videos directly to it (there's no cloud component). Hence it doesn't cache per se, as it is actually residing on the Raspberry Pi. It's capable of playing both videos, images and render web pages.

The quickest way to take it for a spin is to either grab the disk image (https://github.com/Screenly/screenly-ose/releases) or use Noobs.