OS for display TV
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Oh I see. I didn't realize that it had a limitation like that.
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@hobbit666 said in OS for display TV:
OK screenly might not be the best fit for us.
What OS's are good for RasPi with a GUI??
Raspbian would be the next logical choice
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@DustinB3403 I'm not logical - giving Ubuntu Mate a try
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@hobbit666 said in OS for display TV:
@DustinB3403 I'm not logical - giving Ubuntu Mate a try
I didn't think Ubuntu was operable on the Pi. But hey no harm no foul I suppose.
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@DustinB3403 said in OS for display TV:
@hobbit666 said in OS for display TV:
@DustinB3403 I'm not logical - giving Ubuntu Mate a try
I didn't think Ubuntu was operable on the Pi. But hey no harm no foul I suppose.
Most of the big distros are in the Pi
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@scottalanmiller some forms of them anyway
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@hobbit666 said in OS for display TV:
@scottalanmiller said in OS for display TV:
I've not used it. What part(s) did you not like?
Not that I don't like it
but seems to only show static stuff. I want it to display pages that need to be Logged into fiorst and there doesn't seem to be a way of doing it.So just thought to save time (as I will come back to screenly) install something like CentOS with a GUI and use Firefox and Tab Rotation.
We do Chromium in kiosk mode.
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I just setup an Intel Compute Stick on a TV in a client office. $400 for the model pre-loaded with Windows 10.
The entire purpose will be for webinars. and inter office video conferencing.
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@JaredBusch said in OS for display TV:
I just setup an Intel Compute Stick on a TV in a client office. $400 for the model pre-loaded with Windows 10.
The entire purpose will be for webinars. and inter office video conferencing.
Does the compute stick get a full "normal" Windows 10?
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@scottalanmiller said in OS for display TV:
@JaredBusch said in OS for display TV:
I just setup an Intel Compute Stick on a TV in a client office. $400 for the model pre-loaded with Windows 10.
The entire purpose will be for webinars. and inter office video conferencing.
Does the compute stick get a full "normal" Windows 10?
The one I bought is, yes. Windows 10 Home.
Currently updating. So it should be on CU 1703 sometime this afternoon.
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I did look at the compute stick, but went for a cheaper option lol
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@hobbit666 said in OS for display TV:
I did look at the compute stick, but went for a cheaper option lol
I tried a Raspberry Pi gotomeeting would not work.
Client also liked the idea of the Windows desktop /shrug. their choice.
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Neat, that is very cheap for a full Windows PC. Plug that into my television and I have a cheap Windows 10 box.
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@scottalanmiller said in OS for display TV:
Neat, that is very cheap for a full Windows PC. Plug that into my television and I have a cheap Windows 10 box.
No idea how permformant it is. but it should work well for the intended need here.
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@JaredBusch said in OS for display TV:
@scottalanmiller said in OS for display TV:
Neat, that is very cheap for a full Windows PC. Plug that into my television and I have a cheap Windows 10 box.
No idea how permformant it is. but it should work well for the intended need here.
I realize I'll have to play with it and see what it can do. But we currently carry a few Windows laptops with us for super trivial use cases. Like the kids use one or two Windows-only websites, for example. Things are are VERY light.
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@scottalanmiller said in OS for display TV:
@JaredBusch said in OS for display TV:
@scottalanmiller said in OS for display TV:
Neat, that is very cheap for a full Windows PC. Plug that into my television and I have a cheap Windows 10 box.
No idea how permformant it is. but it should work well for the intended need here.
I realize I'll have to play with it and see what it can do. But we currently carry a few Windows laptops with us for super trivial use cases. Like the kids use one or two Windows-only websites, for example. Things are are VERY light.
What website is Windows-Only? Seems kind of insane that any content your kids may access is so dated (poorly designed) that they only work on Windows.
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@DustinB3403 said in OS for display TV:
@scottalanmiller said in OS for display TV:
@JaredBusch said in OS for display TV:
@scottalanmiller said in OS for display TV:
Neat, that is very cheap for a full Windows PC. Plug that into my television and I have a cheap Windows 10 box.
No idea how permformant it is. but it should work well for the intended need here.
I realize I'll have to play with it and see what it can do. But we currently carry a few Windows laptops with us for super trivial use cases. Like the kids use one or two Windows-only websites, for example. Things are are VERY light.
What website is Windows-Only? Seems kind of insane that any content your kids may access is so dated (poorly designed) that they only work on Windows.
Lots of little kid educational stuff, sadly.
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Ah yeah... ok now it makes some sense.
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Windows 7 Embedded
Its hard to find, cause its targeted at specific usage, but this is what I use in my house.
It plays with everything nice, and I have AMD Mini ITX AM1 APU platform, and its great for drivers and running any other kind of software I need, and good drivers for GPU.
I have used the thin client option, which gives me like Windows 7 32-bit without 3.5 frame work and the installation size is 2GB instead of 13 GB of normal windows 7. And much lighter on RAM as well.
Using Linux OS watching Youtube videos are choppy not Linux fault, but AMD windows drivers are better.
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@hobbit666 said in OS for display TV:
Just wondering before I order a Intel Compute Stick.
What do people think will be the best OS for a display TV and will only be displaying graphs and stats from a web site or 3e.g. Zabbix status page, MPLS link status, maybe help desk stats.
My thoughts where simple desktop OS like CentOS or Ubuntu loading Firefox and a few tabs with a rotator plugin.
We have quite a few display TVs around (break rooms, lobbys, etc) that constantly run a slideshow that is updated daily. They also run on one of those Sticks. They come with Win10 Home, so we just used a custom setup with that. The powerpoint presentation is on a network share, and is edited from there. The Sticks are set to logon automatically, and run the slideshow at logon. It's all pretty set it and forget it, except the person that updates the slideshow. It just requires a simple reboot (which takes less than a minute) to get the TVs running the latest slideshow. The sticks are scheduled to reboot nightly so it's always running the current slideshow.
That's the basics of it, of course there's more details if you're interested.
