sugar22

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Hello, Is there a software even Open Source or not for Retail and/or Banking information display networks?

Like those information screens that have most banks or restaurants.. even night clubs..

Once I found a software
called navori server but I think is too expensive... once I watched in Jack in the Box a display rebooting and it was linux...

thanks in advance.

TB0ne

Your question is pretty vague. "A software"? What do you need/want it to do? What kind of environment?

You can run pretty much any version of Linux, and there are several desktop environments that support "kiosk-mode", which is what you're talking about. And the software can be whatever you'd like. Web pages, a program, whatever. Linux also supports touch-screens, so that's not a problem either.

Since you don't say what you're trying to do, it's hard to be specific.

sugar2

I think I was specific, I am looking for software that is used commercially on retail or banking for information displaying.. such those used by Jack in the Box, Bank of America, etc...

I founded something windows based and it costs $5,000+... that is why I remembered watching kiosk based linux based applications for that purpose and I would like to give a try... just looking for alternatives...

thanks again..

TB0ne

No, not specific at all. Retail usages vary quite a bit from banking, and those both from restaurants.

And again, are you talking about something interactive, or static (just playing a canned demo, or set of slides?). If you want to display web pages, you're going to need different software, than if you're trying to run a demo program, driving from a database, or hook to the Internet to display feeds from video cameras. All of these have usages in a 'kiosk' environment, but have different needs.

Linux in kiosk-mode will do what you want. We can help you, but need some details before we can do it.

An analogy would be asking someone "I need a vehicle to move people around". That's specific in a way, but also very general. How many people? How fast? On road/off road? etc. What you get suggested is going to depend on those details.

chrism01

Can you post any links or images to the sort of thing you mean?

sugar2

Oh, sure I can tell what sort of features we need, something like:

- Can be played on any s-video or vga display (lets say with a embedded computer as player) micro pc
- Played content can be scheduled
- Can control all players from a server and from internet (schedules, updates, etc)
- can update contents from internet (dont need to go to each display to update it)
- can play many media types: mpeg, dvd, avi, divx, power point, flash, plain text, rss feed, pictures slide show.
- Network based, something like this diagram: navori
- This commercial software do it navori server but is so expensive =(

do you think you guys can guide me on how to build a solution with kiosk mode Linux, or should I definitively look for a commercial software?

Thanks again....

Aldo

sugar2

guys....
any idea?

Praetorian

I understand what you're looking for. Its very clear to me. A quick Google search returned this.

http://xibo.org.uk/

It seems to be popular and actively maintained.

Hope this helps.