From the creator of Instant WebKiosk/UB, Raspberry Picture Frame, WebXperience OS, Instant WebKiosk/EDS, Safe Internet for kids, Snowden Tribute, and Raspberry WebKiosk, we are proud to introduce Raspberry Digital Signage, an operating system designed for digital signage installations.
A Raspberry Pi port of Instant WebKiosk/EDS
It's is a Raspberry Pi port of the Instant WebKiosk/EDS (Easy Digital Signage) operating system designed to work only on PCs, engineered to run in full-screen mode (there is no way to escape this view but rebooting the Raspberry Pi).
Offers multiple view modes and sub-views
It can easily handle multimedia and web content, thanks to the two view modes built into the OS, Media View and Web View. While the first one lets users to view image files using a slideshow and playback video files and streams from the local network or over the Internet, the latter will display HTML pages.
In addition, the Web View features the Mozilla Firefox experience, the Midori experience, and the Chromium/Google Chrome experience sub-views, each one offering a different web browsing experience.
Supports Raspberry Pi model B
Raspberry Digital Signage was tested with Raspberry Pi model B (512MB of RAM) microcomputer, with both multimedia view (video player and image slideshow) and web view (HTML and HTML5 pages display).
Getting started with Raspberry Digital Signage
To use it, simply download the zip archive from the dedicated section (see above), extract the ISO image and write it to a SD card using the dd command-line utility on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, and Win32DiskImager on Microsoft Windows.
The developers recommend a SDHC Class 10 card of 2GB or bigger, that should be empty and formatted. Plug the SD card into the Raspberry Pi hardware and reboot it. The system will automatically start, allowing users to establish a network connection, which will be remembered after a reboot.
Bottom line
All in all, Raspberry Digital Signage is a great WebKiosk operating system that can be used on outdoor advertising, public installations, marketing, exhibitions, placemaking, and wayfinding, using nothing but a Raspberry Pi portable device.
What is new in this release:
- the underlying operating system has been updated to the latest Raspbian Stretch build, which assures the new Raspberry Pi 3b+ compatibility (raspberrypi-bootloader);
- Chromium browser (the most important package for this browser-face operating system) has been updated to release 60 (armhf) and rpi-chromium-mods to version 20180409 (armhf);
- a Systemd unit file now replaces the older SysV init-script for launching the digital signage stack (some code modified to comply with this new logic);
- MAC address at URL's end feature fixed;
- Internal WordPress site viewability fixed.
What is new in version :
- the underlying operating system has been moved to Raspbian Stretch; the overall performance is sensibly better and HTML5 videos play a lot smoother;
- some improvements on code and bug fixes (the most important ones concern WiFi networks' discovery and local WordPress virtual host, which remains disabled if unused).
What is new in version 9.0:
- underlying operating system updated: raspberrypi-bootloader, apache, php, openssl and xorg packages have been updated, among many others;
- Chromium browser is now at v.56, bundled with system's new SSL certificates - needed after the infamous SHA1 collision event for browser's correct behaviour with "https" sites;
- Raspberry Pi Zero W compatibility;
- digital signage page can be retrieved from the Internet, LAN or even from localhost (a www folder inside the Raspberry Pi's SD card). To simplify the management of the internal site setup, RDS 9.0 comes with WordPress already installed;
- a little more polished UI (official 7" R-Pi touchscreen view is painless now);
- more robust prevent-cache technique for Chromium when reloading-web-page hack is enabled (thanks to Marc Giavarra);
- some minor improvements on code.
What is new in version 6.0:
- Raspberry 2 compatibility.
What is new in version 5.0:
- Raspberry B+ compatible version.
What is new in version 4.0:
- Bugfixing release. Most important bugs fixed:
- now you can display images or videos from LAN without Internet access (web view worked well);
- video sound not only to HDMI by default.
- Raspbian backend updated as 2014-04-10.
What is new in version 3.0:
- Raspbian backend updated.
- Better virtual keyboard, which now is displayed only when text input is needed (and feature enabled, of course). Thanks to Stephen Wille Padnos.
- Network settings page is displayed only if network is unconfigured (unplug network cable/adapter and reboot to force showing it).
- VNC server installed for the web view (see FAQ on how to change password; default is "rds").
- Instructions adding for a pseudo-navigation panel, Chrome view (useful when managing popups in the digital signage kiosk view is needed). Thanks to marco-s_m.
- Instructions added to site FAQ on how to remove cursor on screen (useful for touch screens). Thanks to Stephen Wille Padnos.
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