raspberry pi digital signage

Question

Hi all,

I am a newbie to the world of raspberry pi. I would like to display images as a slideshow on a screen connected to multiple raspberry pi. ( This is for the purpose of setting up electronic notice boards at various portions of the campus and hostels outside the campus)

I want to display the images from a particular folder as in Raspberry Pi. Also, I want to synchronise the contents of the folder with a folder on the cloud(Google drive/Dropbox)/ftp

I have gone through various digital signage methods, but couldn't find a suitable solution.

Can u please suggest a method? I have around 30 such screens (monitors connected to Raspberry PI)

shabaz · Answer

Hi Vishnu, See here for an open source version: https://github.com/concerto/concerto There are more than a dozen listed here (mostly not open-source): https://elinux.org/RPi_Projects/Digital_Signage Info on how to get your google drive content onto the Pi: How to Back Up Google Drive to a Raspberry Pi

nabilbm · Answer

Hi,

concerto is a good solution for what you are looking to do.

but be carful as the PI graphic performance is not very good so avoid doing too many animations using Concerto.

here is a link how to build Concerto player on the PI:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/concerto-digital-signage/MiBkD5JOjE4/discussion

Nabil