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Revision as of 23:00, 6 November 2016
| Wall of Monitors Release status: experimental [box doku] | |
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| Description | many monitors showing many things |
| Author(s) | Heiko, Severin |
I saw this at the London hackspace: A pillar with a bunch of computer displays showing all different sorts of things. So I thought: Let's build one for the lab as well! We have a whole bunch of monitors, let's make them do something cool.
Ideas
One SomefruitPi per Monitor
- Many Pis on a network
- Super cheap: OrangePi? [1]
- Problem: Most are VGA based, Pis only do HDMI
- HDMI VGA converter? Do they work?
One PC, many graphics cards
- Old PCI Multihead cards (e.g. nVidia Quadro NVS280)
Mounting
The displays need to be mounted somehow. Ideally, we would just get a ton of display arms. But they are expensive. Maybe we can just build them ourselves?
Software
- Displays should show a website, or run through multiple websites on sort of a schedule
- Centrally managed
- https://github.com/tiefpunkt/signman
- Currently uses Midori browser, because Chromium is not available on standard Armbian build for the OrangePi One, and Firefox doesn't support kiosk mode out of the box
Hardware
- OrangePi One
- Cheap HDMI->VGA Adapter
- OS: Armbian [2]
- Software runs well, just the VGA output is weird
Mounting
- We have some steel piping we'll mount to the wall
- Monitors will get a VESA-to-pipe-clamp mount, which attaches to the steel pipe
