Xibo

Digital signage for home usage - kitchen display

Asked by Michael Tyrrell

Hello, I've literally stumbled across xibo trying to find a way to repurpose an older (dell inspiron 6400) into a "kitchen display" this is more of a question of relevance. What I'd like is a display which looks like a dashboard, with weather, the family Google calendar, news, RSS and that sort of thing. I'd also like an ability to search for recipes etc. Which I'm not sure is possible with this kind of application? I have watched some videos and seen some pictures of xibo displaying some of the stuff I would like in a beautiful dash which is what I'm after, but after playing with many Linux flavours I'm trying desperately to avoid taking a Web page based route, I'd like more functionality then a simple Web page I've created to display and search for my stuff. Therefore before I download and install, play with and pull my hair out, can this work?

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Erik Jones (epiktetus) said : 		#1

I'm fairly new to Xibo as well, but I have been spending some time configuring it and I think it might work the way you'd like.

It can display RSS and several web pages on one screen easily enough, so most of what you're looking for shouldn't be hard at all. The challenge would be the last item, searching for recipes, but since it's just a running program, you switch out of it for that and come back when you're done. Actually, depending on where you like to search, it might be doable too, if not optimal.

If you'd like, I'd be happy to put together a sample screen shot of your use-case, it would be good practice for me.

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Michael Tyrrell (mikeytyrrell93) said : 		#2

If you could do that, that would be great, thank you for your answer as well, seating towards this route for sure.

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Michael Tyrrell (mikeytyrrell93) said : 		#3

Leaning, apologies

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Erik Jones (epiktetus) said : 		#4

Screenshot sent by email.

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Gene Harber (geneharber) said : 		#5

Erik - I am just getting started with Xibo, but my goal sounds similar to Michael's. Would you be willing to send a screenshot to me as well?

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Erik Jones (epiktetus) said : 		#6

I just posted it online for all to see if they like:
http://imgur.com/3FK7tLG
As I said to Michael: "I slapped this together in about 10 minutes, so forgive me if it's a bit ugly, I'm sure with a little time you could easily make it look nicer. You can interact with the web pages, click links, etc, but they'll refresh to the default page every x minutes, so you'll have to be careful with the timings if you don't want to be frustrated by that. Full disclosure: My server is Linux, but the client is Windows, and I'm not sure what the Linux client does. Also, the scroll wheel doesn't work on the embedded pages and there is of course no scroll bar, so you have to highlight/drag to trick it into scrolling. It might be better to do your web surfing in a different program and just use this for viewing."