I really appreciate your detailed suggestion and description of what you’ve done. Especially, I like that you attribute the app developer. You’re a good egg.
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digger@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I do something like this for work. I’ll share what I use. Take what works for you, leave what doesn’t. My feelings aren’t hurt.
Hardware: I have two TVs that are driven by Amazon Fire sticks. The software is an Android app, and we picked up the sticks on sale for $20 each. I’ve not tested the software on other hardware, but it should work on any Android based device. I have plans to switch to Android on a Raspberry Pi or similar. It’s only matter of time before Amazon breaks my setup, but for the time being (and for the last two years) this works without issue and was extremely cost effective.
Software: I want to recommend “Slideshow” by Milan Fabian. It’s an incredibly full featured slideshow app that will display anything that you throw at it (image files, videos, PDFs, spreadsheets, and more). It can also display web based things like a webpage or YouTube video. You can set timers so that certain content is displayed certain times of day. You can set times and dates so that content that is no longer relevant is no longer displayed. My description here really doesn’t do it justice. You should check it out.
My use case: I work for a school that is in a shared space. Beginning at 7am, the TVs show a slideshow of announcements from the school. It also cycles a music playlist of MP3s that are uploaded to the device. At 4pm, the TVs switch over to a web-based dashboard of where individual classes are in the building and which supervisor is closing the building (I built the dashboard in Home Assistant and it is unrelated to the Slideshow app). At 6pm, the screen goes black and the music shuts off until 7am the next morning. Because we share the space, there is a different slideshow that shows on the weekends based on what that group wants to display. When Monday comes back around, it’s back to my content. My team builds our slideshow in Canva and then pushes it to the device, but you could easily use Google Slides.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
baconmonsta@piefed.social 4 days ago
Thanks for your input!
I’m already using https://pisignage.com/ for automatically advancing slides in the building. Now I just need a simple presentation tool to manually advance the slides during classes
digger@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Tell me more about your use case.
baconmonsta@piefed.social 4 days ago
We offer digital workshops for teenagers. We have tv’s around the building for signage use and for the occasional screen mirroring. Then we have mobile tv’s on wheels to use for welcoming presentations while new participants sign in. Currently we use laptops for that but it’s a pain and takes time when we need to find a laptop somewhere and set it up for each screen and laptop. Preferred would be something that can just dangle from the back of the tv and we could update the assets on it via wlan. This should be doable.