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8 years ago I looked briefly for a basic web browsing app for Chromecase, Roku, and Amazon Fire and none seem to offer that feature (and there are forum discussions (albeit old) that indicate explicitly that such apps don't exist yet and that there must be technical limitations or else such apps would exist... Not sure why, which makes simple proof of concept challenging. What other options are there? Android based sticks? Or Intel Windows based sticks? Raspberry Pi sticks? What else? We just need a simple, cheap, appliance device that can connect to a Internet web site for receiving digital signage.
Problem (Ken)
Schools and Hospitals and businesses would greatly benefit from digital signage throughout their campuses. Typical solutions are to connect a PC or laptop to a TV and program the TV to scroll through a series of images but this is not very easy to manage or interactive. What can we provide to our clients in this regard?
Proposal
After a one-hour session in KIL we decided that ultimately we wanted to build a cloud-based digital signage content delivery platform, basically a CMS like Wordpress with an extra plugin designed to embed and control content unique to digital signage and some templates designed for a TV screen. To do this we need to deliver content to a TV through a hardware device (Roku, Chromecast, etc). So there are two core components to this project: the TV HDMI player and the cloud based web service.