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Consumer LGs can be tricky with their CEC support. Samsung has great support for CEC. We have had countless consumer brands working on our platform with direct customers but very little feedback on consumer screens.

While I do understand the cost difference between consumer and commercial grade screens, I strongly recommend you check out entry-level commercial series from different vendors. They are priced higher, but they

• provide 3x the warranty of consumer TVs
• have better support for signage applications (remote lock, daisy-chain, serial port, diagnostics, temperature readings, remote check, etc)
• are rated for 24/7 operation for commercial use -- consumer TVs are rated 8h/day for home use, meaning warranty won't cover commercial deployment or excessive usage
• can be mounted in portrait orientation -- consumer TVs are designed to be place only in landscape, meaning that their panel quality might degrade over time while ventilation will likely not work leading to higher failure rates (and likely warranty issues)
• usually have a more rugged chassis (and are heavier)

IMHO, and having feedback from our partners, I would say that commercial-grade panels are the only way to go for large deployments. For a few landscape screens in an office environment, consumer TVs will do the job. Others can comment too.

Don't get me wrong - most screens on Yodeck are consumer TVs, and all platforms will work fine with them. I just wanted to give you a heads up to help you making the right choice.

When we first launched Yodeck but in 2016, we were approached by an established digital signage integrator that was running their own software on the RPi. They were struggling with a specific project that their software could not handle. Turns out they also had huge reliability issues. After we provided a solution for this specific project, they came on board as Partners and have been really happy ever since, with more than 2000 screens deployed.

IMHO, you should focus on what you can do best. And try to buy/rent everything else. If you are an integrator with a creative design team, well, do just that and get a platform that works for you. Everything else will just get you off track. Ourselves, we do not do content. We don’t do turn-key projects. We do not provide creative services or a managed service. We just do software. That’s what we are best at.

You can indeed create your own platform; that is why there are so many smaller vendors, they are mostly in your line of business. But that is not a minimal investment route and the faster way to get you where you want to be. If I were you, I would go with a low cost turn-key solution based on RPi to get the business started. And if everything goes well and you do need to build your own software to avoid paying fees, you can do it and migrate your RPi to your own platform.

At Yodeck, we provide a Partner program that gets you a discount and can be setup within a day. And as volumes grow, discount grows fast above 40%, and you use your own pricing model for your customers. We even provide a whitelabel option for rebranding the CMS.

hi u/ggat Intuiface is an interactive digital signage platform that allows you to deploy both online and offline. With this feauture you can
save your content made with Intuiface locally and run them offline without absolutely no WIFI. Of course, it's a choice like I said before. you can choose to run it online too in which case you gain the ability to access external information in real time.

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here the link: https://www.intuiface.com/features/deploy-manage

Check out Yodeck. No need to setup anything. You can try it for free with your Raspberry Pi and play around. And if you use your own RPi for more screens, we provide a 20% discount for non-profits plus extra discount for paying annually. Might fit your budget.

Yodeck should work just fine. And they could schedule different menus for different hours of day, and or have the screens turn off during off-hours.

Yodeck is free for managing a single screen. No fees whatsoever. Works on any version of the RPi.

Seamless video looping is supported. In the next release in 1.5 month or so, we are releasing support for 4K video on the RPi 4.

Yodeck includes free and pre-configured RPi-powered Players (shipped from the US and EU). The management dashboard is really easy to use, making it super-easy for anyone to deploy and manage players, without sacrificing on features and extensibility. You can play around and see for yourself, since managing a single screen is free and without limits.

Try out Yodeck. Not free, but one of the most affordable services out there, $7.99/month per screen and the Player (Raspberry Pi) is provided free of charge if paying annually. And the dashboard is super-easy to manage.

We do support Playlists of Web Pages that you can rotated constantly. And you can run custom code on these to automate actions, e.g. log in using your credentials, making selection using web page menus, remove some parts of the web pages that you do not wish to see, and more. Next week we are releasing a new feature that allows you to keep the web sites in memory, so that they do not reload constantly, and set an interval to refresh only when required (e.g. rotated them every 10 seconds each and refresh the contents every 10 minutes). This works best with the newest Raspberry Pi 4 that has more RAM to keep the Web Pages in memory.

Managing 1 screen is completely free, so you can get a RPi4 and try it out with one screen before going full-scale. Sign up here.

I think you should check out Yodeck — it matches exactly what you need:

• Scheduling: you say what to show when, even when to turn screens off
• Streaming: we support both local IP video streams or YouTube Live streams
• Yodeck is one of the most affordable digital signage solutions out there. And we provide free hardware with annual subscriptions, so you can repurpose those compute sticks for something else.

We have close to 40-50 places of worship on board Yodeck and growing, so I guess your needs are close to theirs.

Reach out if you need anything.

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-1280x800-Electronic-Playback-M10/dp/B07QHVX78W/

Says it has clock and schedule. Idk if they’re programmable. If not: https://www.amazon.com/Century-Digital-Programmable-Packaging-Security/dp/B00MVF16JG/

Perhaps Yodeck and a Yodeck Player (RPi4 kit for $79) along with a screen like this?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07H7899W5/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Z3BNX309TJYDRVS5FR1T

It should keep it around $110 and the service is free and easy to use. And I guess the size should be ok.

From what I'm seeing, you might need a purpose-built input pad for these things.

Example 1 and 2

If you can find any details on that keypad input device, you might be able to see what sort of data stream/protocol comes out of it and emulate it with another device - like an Arduino, etc.

Cloud-based Android digital signage software is the best solution for your needs, allowing you to manage your digital signage remotely from a centralized dashboard. You can stream multiple file types of all sizes in the loop (presentation mode) with ease.

Yodeck is also an option, as all of the solutions mentioned in other posts.

Now, it works on RPi (we provide them for free) and on web browsers. Just wanted to take this opportunity to mention that we are in the process of building support for BrightSign as well! cc: u/Digitizit

I think BrightSign is a good option. We also planning to support these by Q2-2022. If that is out of the question, a well-built RPi 4 kit has broad enough support by many platforms out there, and pretty easy to switch from one to the other (requires reinstall though). We provide a high-quality tested kit for $79 at Yodeck. Iadea has also player options, but AFAIK they have less adoption by CMS vendors that BrightSign or RPi. There are also Android players, but I think that is more risky due to chipsets, OS versions, etc.

As suggested also by folks at r/sysadmin, Yodeck is likely a great candidate. If I am not mistaken (or biased), Yodeck is the most popular cloud DS platform on the RPi.

For your requirement to deploy media from an iOS app, although we do not have an iOS app ourselves, we provide a great integration with Dropbox. You setup a Dropbox folder and pair that with a Dropbox Playlist in your Yodeck account and assign that to your screens. Then, whatever you place in that Dropbox folder, gets pulled by Yodeck and delivered to your Yodeck Players within a few minutes.

You can try it out - Yodeck is free for a single screen. Managing two screens will be $15.98/month (and if you pay annually, you get 2 free RPi4 units).

Aside of the big ones (Navori, Scala, Onelan, etc) there was a guy promoting their solution in the sub, that was really impresive since it runs on RPI and can control many professional displays and some consumer TVs and they recommended to use web designer from google https://webdesigner.withgoogle.com/

let me recall the name of this solution

Digital signage services are being used for music/audio playback. At Yodeck, we have several partners having multi-site installations with hundreds of player just playing back a curated (and licensed) music playlist. Try it out, the service is free for a single player and you can build you own (using a RPi or any PC) or get one for $79.

I think that almost any decent digital signage solution can cover your basic requirements. For the ad-related part, some useful tips I can think of:

• Including your content along with ad-content, might require something more than just simple playlists or fullscreen playlists. This could be a scenario like "play 2 items from my own content playlist, and then 1 item from ad content playlist". Or, you could create layouts to combine your main content with ad side-content.
• Since someone might be paying for airtime, you might need to make sure that TVs are up and running. Turning on and off the TV and switching channel to the HDMI input the media player is connected to might be necessary. Even remotely monitoring that the TV is connected as expected.

At Yodeck, we provide the hardware for free with an annual subscription (so no extra cost for switching the Mi Boxes), and the cost is roughly the same ($64/month for 8 screens). And it is really easy to use, you can try it for free for a single screen.

We had so many inquiries at Yodeck that we had to make an announcement that we do not use Java. Other vendors have done the same.

If the display is 675x300 then all graphics should be 675x300.

DPI will not matter, because it is pixel for pixel. I usually keep at Photoshop's default of 72 DPI.

I do LED walls of all different sizes, and this is one of the biggest problems is with content. No one gets that it is pixel for pixel, and they try and do all these different things to make it look better on their computer screen, ignoring the actual pixel resolution of the display.

I suspect something with using InfranView and then going to Paint is causing issues.

I know not everyone can afford Photoshop, so maybe try GIMP instead (Free Open Source https://www.gimp.org/), and ONLY use GIMP to manipulate and size images to your final 675x300 image size, do not use InfranView and Paint.

When resizing images smaller, in Photoshop I use 'Bicubic Sharper (reduction)', I think GIMP has something similar (I have not used GIMP in a while because I have the full Adobe CC package).

I think once you get used to using GIMP for cropping and resizing, you will be happier with the output.

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At Yodeck has two options that might fit you: a) being a Reseller, where the customer can manage their own (Yodeck-branded) account and 1st level support is provided by you and we support your team, and being an Affiliate, where you get a commission by signing up customers. When reselling, you can build Players on your own using RPi, or purchase them ready for deployment from our qualified suppliers in the US and EU.

There is also a Whitelabel option, which I guess does not make much sense, since it will be difficult for us to provide support to your clientele.

yup - pretty familiar with Enplug since I work there :) Were you able to check out the reviews on G2?

If you've got any specific goals or requirements, feel free to reach out or set up a demo.

I would strongly recommend an endpoint management software as it will let you manage and secure your devices as well as take care of your display settings from a single platform. Hexnode is an excellent unified endpoint management software that offers Digital Signage Display that could seamlessly control your fleet.
Check out a few reviews and see which additional features might be beneficial for you. I would also recommend going through a few articles and choose a solution that suits your needs the best.

With Hexnode’s Android Kiosk Mode, you can display your desired product catalog in an interactive PDF format. The product catalog can be set in kiosk mode on all the required tablets using a group policy. Any changes in the catalog can be updated by simply replacing the old file with the updated catalog in the group policy. Thus, your clients will always have the most recent catalog at hand managed directly by your organization admin.

You can also utilize Hexnode’s Launcher settings to automatically open the document as soon as your tablet is switched on. The kiosk mode will prevent the users from closing the document. Moreover, Hexnode’s integration with Samsung Knox makes device onboarding a breeze.

According to your requirements, I would recommend to try using Scalefusion Kiosk Mode software, manage or control it through a centralized desktop dashboard remotely. It's easy to mass enroll your displays with a 24/7 support team.

In your case, cloud-based signage Software would be the better choice. It will help you to manage your content distribution remotely from a centralised dashboard. And for this, I would recommend Scalefusion signage software.

You can turn your Android tablets or Android TVs into an attractive Digital Signage Display with the help of Content Management Solution that lets you upload content from any laptop/desktop & monitor the devices remotely.

Try the feature for free: https://scalefusion.com/digital-signage-kiosk-solution

Displays do not really have a portrait mode, it's the playback device that outputs in portrait mode when the display is mounted rotated in portrait.

I use all kinds of consumer and pro displays for tradeshows in portrait mode without any issues, as long as the source computer/device can rotate the output.

You can't do this with Apple TV (at least in the past you could not do this, unless something has changed).

You need a regular PC or Mac computer/laptop that can rotate the output for any display, and then use something like Reflector 3 ($15) to output the iPad to the rotated display.

You connect the laptop to the display, and change the display settings on the laptop to "Portrait" or "Portrait (Flipped)" depending on which way you hung the display, so the OS is rotated to view as normal on the portrait display.

Then run Reflector 3 on the laptop, and then cast from the iPad to the Laptop using AirPlay. Both the Laptop and the iPad need to be connected to the same wireless network (your booths own wireless router, do not try to do this using facilities WiFi).

Try Intuiface composer/player. It's interactive digital signage platform that allows to you edit, control the content pretty much live time and display from wherever in the world you are. You can take advantage of Analytics feature that allows you to collect all kinds of information about your display project like how many times you played and where, and if it's shown on touch screen how many time of what image people clicked on.

the link is here: https://www.intuiface.com/

Check out Yodeck and our Partner program. You get significant discounts as a reseller. We also provide the VPN setup easily for advanced troubleshooting (if ever needed). We have more than 300 resellers worldwide, for many of whom this is a new venture as well.

I don’t know if the math will work out for your business plan, but it never hurts to shop around and see options.

Yodeck supports uploading and displaying excel files. You might need to adjust page breaks so that the output is displayed properly. Yodeck also supports Dropbox and OneDrive for syncing playlists. So, if you setup a Dropbox account to sync that folder to the cloud, it should work fine.

A Raspberry Pi Zero might struggle to load a heavy dashboard site. If it is simple and light, it might work ok, but refreshing might take a while. I would go for any of RPi 2, 3 or 4.

You might find Yodeck useful. It is free for a single screen. You can setup your dashboard to refresh and turn the screen on and off on a schedule.

If you are using RPi, you can check out Yodeck. It is free for 1 screen. It will work great with any version of the Pi (1GB of RAM or more). In our next release (June 18th), we will support transitions powered by the GPU (really smooth and slick). Or you can mix videos and overlay stuff on top, e.g. have a video in the background and overlay your menu.

Here are a few suggestions:

• I would create a layout (a.k.a. split-screen). On the one side you could have that Google Sheet with the available slots. And on the other side, you could have your logo and contact details, or even some other promo content.
• You could also schedule the screen to turn off during the night to save on screen panel life. Just make sure that the software/hardware you use and the screen you buy are compatible for this specific feature.
• For the screen, if there is direct sunlight outside the office, you might need to consider a good professional signage screen with good enough visibility.

Yodeck can do that for you, and it is free for a single screen. You just need a player ($79).

Check out Yodeck (vendor speaking). We currently have a multinational group (manufacturing) on board with more than 600 screens spread all over the world. I think we tick all the boxes you mention:

• Video playback is super smooth, especially for 1080p video. We are now releasing 4K video support as well, in case you have such hi-res content.
• We support RSS feeds, either as textbox or as a ticker.
• We support web content, and also provide a scripting language for supporting automatic logins, navigation and modifications on the web page.
• We provide "Workspaces", which is a cool way to segment content and access rights for distributed content management teams. The multinational above uses that to delegate access to HQ, division and individual plant levels.
• Cloud-based content management, accessible from anywhere, and with Enterprise-grade features.
• Hardware is provided for free as part of annual subscriptions. We use the Raspberry Pi, which has proven highly reliable, powering tens of thousands of screens with just a handful of returns.
• We provide volume discount that can significantly lower TCO.

If the coffee-shop is not 24/7, then you need something that can turn the tv on and off on a schedule, to save panel life. Same with power cuts - you want playback to start as soon as the power is back.

Check out Yodeck. Quite affordable for your case and hardware is included.

At Yodeck, we provide a complete whitelabel partner program. You have all the customization you will ever need:

• custom domain
• custom CMS branding
• custom player branding (some only provide unbranded players)
• preconfigured customization inside the player software
• custom CMS language file (to override strings in the CMS), along with selecting which language is the default for your CMS and which other languages you want to provide
• custom notification emails
• custom content library to build and provide only to your customers (Widgets, Layout Templates, etc)
• APIs to connect your monitoring solution to our platform for all your customers
• ready to launch within 1 business day
• no limitation on your pricing
• a bunch of options for tuning behavior to your business needs
• discounts based on total volume, annual vs monthly payments, and more

Yodeck might be a good fit, as most solutions will do (as in features). Yodeck is been used extensively in restaurants. You can easily schedule different content for different hours of the day of different days, just like using a calendar. Playlists can have videos, images, pdf. You can give it a shot with a single screen and see if it works for you before, or schedule a demo with a rep.

As I said, most solutions will do. It has to do more about ease of use, ease of deployment and price. At Yodeck, we provide the Players preconfigured with your settings (e.g. wifi), and they are free of charge if you go for an annual subscription.

At Yodeck we provide the RPi hardware 100% for free. It is very easy to use, yet flexible.

I understand that it might not fit your budget, although we do provide substantial discounts for educational/NPO customers. But, you might be able get your budget stretched if you pitch the solution as an emergency broadcast platform. Yodeck supports Emergency Alerts that can be optionally integrated with any emergency alert system you already have. You can also broadcast emergency alerts without a third party system. You just log in, click a button, and broadcast preconfigured messages to different screens, e.g. escape routes, muster points, weather warnings, and other dangerous situations.

If you are interested, reach out and we can investigate pricing.

There are many options for hardware. The thing is, you need to be careful on your hardware selections. Else, you might end up running around fixing things.

Consumer TVs work fine, but are not supposed to work 24/7, are not rugged as commercial-grace displays, and you should not use them in portrait orientation.

I don't know about the reliability of the Firestick. We use the Raspberry Pi, which is an extremely reliable piece of hardware. The added bonus is that the Raspberry Pi can

• turn the panel on on boot, so your TV don't go black from a short power failure
• turn the panel on/off e.g. on a schedule, saving on panel life
• can monitor the HDMI connection and report on the HDMI cable connection and status of the panel (on/standby/etc)

On top of that, you get more flexibility with remote troubleshooting in case something does happen, which is essential if you have screens all over the place and need to troubleshoot.

For sure, you will also be needing essential features, like proof-of-play (playback reports), and others, depending on who you will be selling screen time to.

We are build just that for Yodeck - a Web Player that you can view online or embed in your intranet page, along with a Windows-based screensaver. Pushing as a popup and having proof-of-play on an employee level sound nice, we will add that to our roadmap too!

Here is my two cents:

• Hardware: Raspberry Pi is rock-solid. We have shipped out tens of thousands of units in the past 5 years and we only have had just a handful of returns. It can work under extreme conditions. You also have a selection of software platforms to use on that. I can't really speak for other platforms, but you may be limiting your software options.
• Software: You can find solutions that are 100% free for a single screen. That includes Yodeck - all plans are free for a single screen and works on the Pi. You can also use Screenly OSE (also works on the Pi), but it is quite limited, LAN-managed, and there is actually little reason to do it for your case.
• Displays: Depending on the usage/budget, you could go for a consumer display vs a commercial-grade digital signage display which is 3x the cost and offers little advantage in your use case.

IMHO, some additional things to consider:

• Content format - you need to make it as simple as possible for a non-tech content manager (HR, Marketing, administrative personnel) to put new stuff on the screen. At Yodeck, we support any video/image format, all Office formats and PDFs.
• Turning the TV on and off - most providers (Yodeck included) can turn the screen on and off using HDMI-CEC. This can be useful to save on panel life, electricity bill and just being as "green" as possible.

Yodeck supports all office docs. So, you can even use excel. I would suggest you go for Powerpoint and upload that (ppt directly or pdf export). That retains quality, with all texts being vectors that scale fine.

We also support creating similar layouts within Yodeck itself, but that may not be what you need.

Then, you are looking for Yodeck! $7.99/screen per month, and free Player included with annual subscriptions. And you can try it for free with a single screen, to make sure it works as expected.

Check out Yodeck. It's reasonably priced, comes with preconfigured Players that are a breeze to install even on existing screens, and content management is really easy to do. You can signup for free and check it out yourself. No need for servers or anything, just an Internet connection (wired or wireless).

Yodeck supports PowerPoint presentations (as document slides or converted to videos), so you can keep the same content. And you can also create Playlists to include that PowerPoint file along with videos or anything else. And you can also add Widgets (dates, clocks, weather, scrolling news texts, etc) to include more information that might be interesting to your guests.

Try using Yodeck. Free for 1 screen. You can connect to a calendar and display events from there (here is the details and a sample screenshot). Your client will only need to update the calendar through his smartphone. The calendar on screen can be updated every few minutes. And you can also create a layout and make it more visually appealing than just displaying a number.

Alternatively, they can use the app from their phone and update a text (we call it RichText Widget), but I think the above approach might be simpler.

We have had 1-2 confirmed cases of direct customers switching from Mvix to Yodeck, but I have little feedback to share. But if you have a RPi laying around, you can try it out for free.

If you do not get enough feedback from the community, you can also check out Digital Signage category on Capterra and read reviews of candidate platforms. That should help to find highly reliable yet user-friendly solutions.

Yodeck allows to remote manage everything. An annual subscription includes preconfigured hardware players as well, ready to be used, so no need to purchase separate hardware, install apps, etc, etc. You can have screenshots, remote actions (shutdown, reboot, turn screen on/off, etc), you have detailed reporting (player online with content up-to-date) and more. Should be fairly easy to setup, either for a couple for screen or a couple of thousands. Reach out if you have any questions. We also have several financial institutions among 10.000+ companies using the platform, so I am pretty sure it can cover your needs.

Make a 20min video with just that slide on a USB drive, perhaps the screen behaves better with that :-)

If you are planning to use the RPi, check out Yodeck. It is free for a single screen. You can use HDMI splitters or 1-to-many HDMI extender (love the Lenkeng LKV373A) to drive multiple displays with the same content coming from a single RPi player.

If the TV is timing out, there should be an option in the menu to keep it always on. Else, you might need to get an simple digital signage solution (ours here) or build something DIY using e.g. Screenly.

No need to. You could use WiFi and have 1 Player per screen.

Check out Yodeck, it should cover your needs. Given your requirements, you might also do with a free solution. I suggest you get one unit and do a proof of concept, so you make sure that people that will use it are on board.

Yodeck allows you to do just that. It comes with several templates you can use for free (and much more are on the way), and you can easily build your own Layout. You just need a Player (RPi4) and the service is free for a single screen.

Yodeck costs $7.99/mo per screen and we provide the media player for free (RPi4). The service is well-balanced between feature-set and ease-of-use. We also have nice partnership options, including whitelabel, that you may find interesting - we have something like 230 reselling partners worldwide.

Yodeck should definitely work for you. The service is free for a single screen, you just need a Raspberry Pi. If you do not know what that is, then buy a ready to use RPi-based Media Player from our site for $79. Should be straightforward, reach out if you are having trouble.

If you are planning to stick to 4-5 screens, an on-premise solution might be an overkill. While I do understand the gov policy on cloud, on Yodeck we do have countless school districts, 2-3 research laboratories, counties, town halls, etc, even certain federal agencies. For a small project like that, I am sure a cloud solution can get approval. Why limit your options?

Check out Yodeck. Ideal for your project size, easy to use and free for 1 screen so you can try it out. Annual subscriptions get you all the Players you need for free (Raspberry Pi 4).

Yodeck should do what you want. You can display web content in a Playlist, so that all 6 pages can be shown on a screen. It supports any kind of screen/resolution, auto-zooming on Web Pages so they look exactly the same across screens. Yodeck uses the Raspberry Pi 4, which has an embedded WiFi dual-band adapter. It is credit-card sized, so you can easily place it behind the screens. And it is one of the most affordable solutions, giving the hardware for free with an annual subscription (pricing). Despite my bias, I think that it should work for you. Try it out, it is free for a single screen.

Yes, you check the video wall how-to and an asymmetric video wall built by one of our partners. I guess this is what you want.

Try out Yodeck. Very easy to use - it is free for 1 screen so you can try it out yourself with a Raspberry Pi. We provide free RPi4 units with annual subscriptions. Overlays on top of videos are not rendered inside the video. They are layered on top, so you can use transparent PNGs or HTML pages that have transparent background, or our own text overlays that can be changed easily.

Yodeck supports:

• HTML5 Widgets: that’s HTML that is downloaded on the Pi and is shown locally. In addition, it presents an input form (that you define) on the online management console, so you can type in stuff (daily schedule, etc). However, there is no ready-made Widget for what you describe; you have to build it and upload it in your account.

• WiFi: hopefully, the embedded WiFi will work with your network, but USB dongle are supported in case it does not.

• Offline Playback: player can work fine (incl. the Widget) for up to 30-45 days without Internet access. A 2-minute warning is displayed on boot if Internet is unavailable, but this message can be deactivated.

• single screen account are free

So, I think it will probably work IF Internet is allowed when you connect it to the WiFi. If no Internet is allowed at any point, then you can’t use it.

Although I have no hands-on experience, I think that after configuration of the panel, you can connect any device you want, RPi, PC, or anything. Unless they want to remotely change the configuration as well, you should be fine with a RPi. Usually, they controller will accept a set of standard resolutions on its DVI input from the output device (RPi) and (usually) will only display the top-left pixels of its input, matching the available panels/resolution.

We have several billboards on Yodeck, and we do support custom ratios and cropping, to hide that complexity from end-users. If they have not decided on the CMS (which I guess they already have), they might interested.

AFAIK, most digital signage hardware will work fine even in lower temperature. You might want to consider using a Raspberry Pi; they have been tested to work even in very wide temperature range. Someone even tested it to be stable in -100C. From our experience with Yodeck, temperature should not be a real issue.

There are a few options out there, but honestly IMHO (and not because I am biased), you should first make sure that you have considered all options for Internet access. To name a few:

• You can use a dedicated VLAN for signage and isolate the devices from the rest of your network.
• Add a (caching?) proxy between signage devices and only allow connections based on the access list provided by the vendor.
• You can use the guest wifi and add the mac addresses as an exception to the hotspot portal, all hotspot management router provide this option AFAIK.
• Add a new wifi, again isolated, and get it through that.
• Use 4G/LTE dongles for each device of a 4G/LTE gateway.

Although not answering your original question, I hope I helped somehow. And make sure you check out Yodeck, next time you might not have this internet restriction so it’s good to know what can be done on a Pi :-)

For the sidenote you mentioned: check out Yodeck. It is one of the most affordable solutions out there. We even provide the hardware Players required (Raspberry Pi) for free with Annual subscriptions (full pricing here). We support all sorts of content: Videos/Images (any format), Web Pages (with automation scripting supported), Audio (any format), live streaming sources, Office documents and PDFs, Widgets (small apps, like clocks and tickers), any many ready-to-use integrations with popular dashboard services.

Check it out (it's free for 1 screen), it should be a good fit for your business. Reach out for a 100 screen quote, we do provide discounts over 60 screens.

Try out Yodeck. If you have a Raspberry Pi laying around, you can use it for free. If you decide to move forward, all Players are provided for free with annual plans.

You can add Images, Videos, YouTube, Documents (Office and PDF), live video streams, audio files (for background music) and many more.

We have ready-to-use integrations with Twitter, Instagram, Google Analytics, and we have in our product backlog a Google Datastudio integration as well (to be released towards mid of summer). Weather, RSS feeds, and much more Widgets are included.

Reach out if you need help or have any questions.

Hi there,

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Yodeck allows displaying website. We support scripted login to Google Analytics, which the login process is the same for all Google services. We can help you build scripted login for Freshdesk and other services you might need. You do not need any API integration, and you can use our scripting engine to automate the login process, as well as use custom javascript to modify the page in order to show exactly the information you need. You can also create a layout with all these web service feeds on your screen, or display other company content as well using playlists.

Yodeck works on the Raspberry Pi (any version) and is free for managing 1 screen, so it should fairly easy to try it out. Let me know if you need help or reach out to Yodeck support directly.

I would agree with Feverpitch24 - only banks and government institutions go with on-premise solutions now days. Even big corps now go cloud.

We wrote some details on this debate in an e-book, those interested can read more on Cloud-vs-On-Premise. I think it pretty much covers all aspects, if we are missing something, feel free to send feedback.

Yodeck is used a lot for displaying dashboards that may involve internal data. We do have a few customers that worry about internal data leaking out and reach out to learn more about how we secure their accounts and data. We try to explain all aspects of our security for our customers to feel comfortable, but it is a fair concern they have. The bottom line is that a) they trust you with internal data, b) they put internal data on devices that can be physically removed, c) they put a cloud-managed device to their internal network.

We are now designing some very interesting features that will allow a very high level of security in the cloud digital signage industry to alleviate all these issues, making Yodeck one of the most secure cloud solutions. I think we are not the only one doing so; all digital signage platforms gradually invest more and more in security to protect their platforms and their customers.

I think that Google Sheets or a Trello board will do just fine. Still, you do need a way to show it on that screen. Yodeck is free for managing 1 screen, you just need to get a Player for $79. It will allow you to show other things at different times of the day, or even turn the TV on and off automatically.

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Also, keep in mind that most solutions that can display web content (like Google Sheets or Trello) require that content to be shared and accessible without a username and password. With Yodeck, you can use our Google and Trello Widgets that allow you to authenticate and show private content.

Screenly Pro for managing 1 device is no longer available for free. You can find more information here. You can still try Screenly OSE though, that's open-source (but a bit limited). I would suggest you check out Yodeck as well; it provides clocks, dates, texts, and other stuff that you can use to include useful info.

For the screen itself, you can use any HDMI monitor, either an el-cheapo TV or computer monitor. At the office, we some smaller 10.1-inch Full-HD monitors we found on Amazon for around $120.

If you still have the Raspberry Pi, why not giving Yodeck a try? It has Widgets, Video playback is smooth, and all content is downloaded locally, so it will work even offline. It is free for one screen, and if you ever need to add more and get a paid subscription we provide a discount for non-profits.

USB-based touch interfaces are usually plug-and-play and are identified as mouse devices. You can play around with Yodeck, although we do not have virtual keyboard support yet (planning to add that later this year). If you only need menu navigation, you can build a small web app for the directory and use it.

If by "USB Players" you mean the USB Media Player feature on most TVs or displays, this will probably not allow the end-user to remotely change the content. Also, it will not power-off and power-up the screen - every morning or upon any tiny power glitch, someone will have to turn the screen on, navigate through its menu and start playback. It is cumbersome and error prone.

Yodeck allows to remote manage everything, update content, but also make sure that a) the Players are online, b) the Player is indeed connected to the display, c) the display is up and running. It will also allow them to turn the screens on and off based on a schedule, to save power and minimize screen panel wear. It also allows you to create layouts, setting up different regions of the screen with different content, like a video on one side, some playlist on another side, overlays on top of other content, and many more stuff. And do all this in a very easy way, so that anyone can manage it.

Of course, all this comes at a price, still quite affordable compared to competition. I suggest you play around and see all the features, it is free to manage 1 screen (no credit card required).

Check out Yodeck. Single Player Accounts are free. You can build your own Player using a Raspberry Pi or get one for $79. They support WiFi, but will work fine offline for up to 30 days, content is downloaded locally.

You can use your MP4 and loop it (actually, gapless looping, which can be cool). Content can be changed remotely through the web. If you do menuboard, you can use a fixed MP4 as background and do an overlay of text to show your prices, making it even easier to change. Reach out if you need any help or info.

Yodeck supports 3G/4G/LTE USB dongles. WiFi could also work, if there is any wireless networks at the site that you can use. If you go with the cell dongle, you could get a small data plan for each unit, especially if you do not intend to transfer a lot of media.

Reach out to support to help you evaluate if that approach would work better for your project.

Have a look at Yodeck. Supports any content type you might need, including web pages (which you can also script to automatically login or modify what you see). It is free for managing 1 Player and you can use a Raspberry Pi you may already have available to evaluate. You can manage it yourself (it's quite easy). And if you get an annual subscription, we provide all the required Players for free.

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Only thing you might need from your IT is to allow the Players to connect to our servers (that is, if you have firewall restrictions in your network).

You can try out https://www.yodeck.com

Users say that the UI is pretty easy. All you need is a Raspberry Pi 3 ($79) and an LKV373A sender ($35). A single-screen account is completely free. You can signup and check it out, no strings attached.

More info here: https://www.yodeck.com/news/any-hdmi-device-asvideo-infor-yodeck/

It can be depending on how your network is set up and if you can self host the CMS. Once the initial setup is done it basically runs itself and adding content is easy. I use intel compute sticks that plug directly into hdmi. Super clean looking and does what I need it to do.

Rise Vision. Free and/or paid platform and there is an App for Android that can be used to access it.

https://www.risevision.com/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myrise.riseplayer&hl=en_US

Does what you're displaying require audio? If so, just get an adapter kit from what ever the video output adapter is that takes that video input and an audio input and pushes it to hdmi.

Something like this will do that:

https://www.amazon.com/HDE-Audio-Scaler-Converter-Adapter/dp/B009L4X3ZA