{"id":1359,"date":"2013-01-17T08:24:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T08:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2013-01-17T08:24:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T08:24:48","slug":"screenly-digital-signage-for-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"Screenly &#8211; Digital signage for #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-H5i9Fs4-ZAQ\/UA_4Ki6lUGI\/AAAAAAAAHIs\/6AKJQbsWYIE\/w506-h378-n-k\/2012-07-25%2B14.27.46.jpg?resize=506%2C378&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"506\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Developer Viktor Petersson has created a piece of software called Screenly. Screenly allows you to administer a &#8216;digital sign&#8217; over a web browser, letting you add images, videos and web-pages to be shown on a loop on a screen connected to the Raspberry Pi. Possible usages, according to Viktor are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Display business information or server dashboards<\/li>\n<li>Advertisements (in-store or in store-front)<\/li>\n<li>Internal information boards<\/li>\n<li>Fancy photo-frame<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information is available in various places:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/wireload\/screenly-ose\">GitHub repository<\/a> containing the code<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=41&amp;t=12396\">Discussion thread<\/a> over at the RPi Foundation website<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/viktorpetersson.com\/2012\/08\/01\/my-latest-project-screenly\/\">Viktor&#8217;s blog post<\/a> announcing the software &#8211; other blog posts likely to be posted in future<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developer Viktor Petersson has created a piece of software called Screenly. 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