Saturday, January 15, 2011

Xibo - Open Source Digital Signage


I managed to setup Xibo today.  I had trouble setting up the Xibo server on a Ubuntu 10.10 workstation yesterday. So, today, I tried to setup the server on a Pentium 4 2.66 GHz running Windows XP Pro.  Had to install Apache and MySQL server first.  It took about half an hour to setup the server properly.  Next, I installed the client on a Windows 7 Pro computer.  Had to setup a user and permissions properly, but eventually got it to scroll an RSS feed and display 2 pictures (alternating at 1 second intervals).  The only other alternative free digital signage solution is Concerto from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  Concerto is a pure Linux solution though - server and client must be on a *nix machine. The installation instructions were much sketchier for Concerto than Xibo, consequently, I chose Xibo.  Now, Xibo might not have as many features as a commercial solution such as Harris Infocaster, but it works and it is much less buggy.  Yet another great Open Source Solution!

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