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This is the portal of the MAZI toolkit
http://www.mazizone.eu/toolkit/
MIT License
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Very simple media broadcasting application #102

Open panosnethood opened 6 years ago

panosnethood commented 6 years ago

It would be nice to include in the list of applications a very simple "media broadcasting" application that would allow non-technical admins to create splash pages that simply "play" multimedia content stored in a folder (a video, a slideshow of photos, a music playlist).

There are various such applications, but I think given also the performance limitations of the raspberry Pi it might be worth it to implement a very lightweight one.

If connected to a NextCloud folder this could be even "interactive" since people could add content to the selected folder for automatic "broadcasting" ...

PascalHeynmoeller commented 6 years ago

whats about droopy upload to an folder and viewing/playing with H5AI?

panosnethood commented 6 years ago

Thanks Pascal! Does H5AI support slideshows and/or looping? I solved for now my problem by installing in a separate Raspberry Pi "feh" (for slideshow of photos in a certain folder) and https://github.com/adafruit/pi_video_looper (for "looping" video files in a folder). I think it would be great if there was a simple configurable web application that does both of these at the same time :-)

PascalHeynmoeller commented 6 years ago

No the indexer just replaces the default Apache2 index with one which is made with Html5, making it easier to preview (hear & watch) files. There is no slideshow or looping, as I can see at the moment. The files from the directory must be manually selectet by the viewer. Here you can view an Demo

~~But I've found some scripts which look for an directory or media on an usbstick playing it in an loop. May be ask "Marco Buratto](https://www.binaryemotions.com/raspberry-slideshow-download/) to use his welldone ready made scripts from his image.~~

panosnethood commented 6 years ago

Thanks again! H5AI looks very nice. But in MAZI we chose to use nextcloud for file sharing because of its wider support and additional services. Introducing alternative lighter options is nevertheless a good idea but I am not sure how soon it will be possible to be integrated in the admin panel.

Interested people could do this manually and this is a placeholder wiki page with guidelines on the manual installation of applications (including as a starting point your suggestions) here: https://github.com/mazi-project/guides/wiki/Manual-installation-of-applications

Feel free to add more!