XBMC infoscreen setup
#1
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
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#2
Sounds a bit... not right. XBMC really isn't built for this.

Personally'd check out the "Laptop picture frame" projects. Where people turn old broken laptops into picture frames.

http://repair4laptop.org/notebook_picture_frame.html
http://www.youplala.net/linux/a-digital-...ning-linux

You could easily pxeboot something and just put a picture or pdf in the folder and tell it how to rotate.

If you want tiny get the lowest powered atom you can find. JPEG doesn't need much to be decoded.
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