2011-02-22, 21:49
Hi Forum,
I'm about to setup a infoscreen setup for my company and of cause thought of using XBMC for this...
My optimal setup would be:
- Cheap easily available hardware in a box, but still 100% legal - so no jailbraked AppleTv, plain motherboards, etc.)
- FullHD (1080p - 1920x1080)
- I need power (if I can't get PoE to work), RJ45 ethernet, HDMI
- PoE (so i can turn it of via a script that turns off PoE in the switch)
- No HDD (will boot via PXE)
- Automatically startup showing slideshows from a specific NFS dir (no manual intervention should be involved), but should be possible to exit to XBMC menu if we wan't to show a video or hear music, etc.
- Different NFS dirs will be used for coffee areas (company employees birthdays, internal information), reception (flight info, general information about company) , kitchen (todays menu), etc.
- NFS dir link "current" will be changed to actual date eg. "31.12" 00:01 each day to show new slideshow.
Please, let me hear your ideas on this
Thanks in advance !
~maymann
I'm about to setup a infoscreen setup for my company and of cause thought of using XBMC for this...
My optimal setup would be:
- Cheap easily available hardware in a box, but still 100% legal - so no jailbraked AppleTv, plain motherboards, etc.)
- FullHD (1080p - 1920x1080)
- I need power (if I can't get PoE to work), RJ45 ethernet, HDMI
- PoE (so i can turn it of via a script that turns off PoE in the switch)
- No HDD (will boot via PXE)
- Automatically startup showing slideshows from a specific NFS dir (no manual intervention should be involved), but should be possible to exit to XBMC menu if we wan't to show a video or hear music, etc.
- Different NFS dirs will be used for coffee areas (company employees birthdays, internal information), reception (flight info, general information about company) , kitchen (todays menu), etc.
- NFS dir link "current" will be changed to actual date eg. "31.12" 00:01 each day to show new slideshow.
Please, let me hear your ideas on this
Thanks in advance !
~maymann