Would this work on raspberry pi?

[quintendewilde]

Hi,

I could not find this anywhere.

Build could this work on a raspberry pi ? This would solve our digital signage problems.

Kindest regards

[JeejD]

Quinten, if you run android on rasberry pi and install an use the Fully kiosk broswer app you can set it up easily. Just point the app to your wp installation and make the app run as a startup app.

[JeejD]

Even better: point the app directly to your foyer screen and voila 👌

[quintendewilde]

Ok promising. One little thing :) How do I get the wordpress running online (without the raspberry for the moment)

I'm unable to get any slide visible when I visit the page. Or am I not getting the fundamentals wrong of the wordpress plugin

[mennolui]

Hi @quintendewilde, check out this FAQ about Foyer and the Raspberry Pi (although, based on a regular Linux OS, not Android): https://wordpress.org/plugins/foyer/#can%20i%20use%20a%20raspberry%20pi%20mini-computer%20for%20my%20digital%20sign%3F

About the WordPress side of things: Did you manage to install WordPress, install Foyer, and add some slides? Did you add them to a channel, and that channel to a display? You should then view that display URL in the browser of you digital signage device (the Pi), or any other browser where you are not logged in to WordPress.

@JeejD Android on Pi sounds interesting. Could you point me to install instructions that I could share with other users? How is the visual performance? Are fade and slide transitions between slides smooth? And what about MP4 videos, and YouTube videos?

Best, Menno

[quintendewilde]

@mennolui I got the wordpress to work (small mistake on my side) .

In the faq it says the digital signage is choppy when using videos. Any way of improving this? @JeejD Would you say it works better on android raspberry pi ?

@mennolui Great work btw!

[JeejD]

@mennolui I have tried Foyer with Android on a mediabox (mxq to be exact) with a 2gb memory in combination with the Fully Kiosk Browser. This worked great for me. As any basic Pi setup would have simular specs i don't see any problems coming up for Quinten.

As far as I know all the functionalities of Foyer work fine with this app.

The only sources I can think of for Rasberry Pi and Android are some YT tutorials. But I am planning to make some great tutorials on the foyer plugin for my blog i'm working on right now.

[JeejD]

@quintendewilde I would say it works the same as on a laptop. Please advice my previous answer to Menno about working with Foyer on a Android mediabox. That's the only experience i have.

[quintendewilde]

@JeejD Android on Raspberry Pi = Lineage OS of Konstakang? Thanks for all the help people.

[mennolui]

Hey @quintendewilde, from my personal experience I'd say don't use video and don't use slide/fade transitions on a stock Pi. But that was over a year ago and I'm sure if you are really into Pi / Linux tweaking you could improve the performance somehow. Maybe Android on Pi works smoother, but no experience with that combination.

@JeejD Looking forward to those blog posts, cool! Let me know if you need any input.

[JeejD]

@quintendewilde unfortunately I don't that kind of knowledge of Raspberry Pi.

[Amosar]

If it can still help you or help future visitor I use stock raspbian to do that and I've just modified ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart with that :

#Disable screen saving
@xset s off
@xset -dpms
@xset s noblank
#use chromium in full screen
@chromium-browser --kiosk --incognito --app=http://url

This will start chromium in fullscreen with the url that you specified. if you want to access to the desktop, you need to do CTRL+ALT+T and then launch it

[boschkundendienst]

Hi,

I could not find this anywhere.

Build could this work on a raspberry pi ? This would solve our digital signage problems.

Kindest regards

I did exactly that, checkout https://github.com/boschkundendienst/raspisignage

DS-client and Server (WP + Foyer + Theater) on a Pi. Works on Pi3 and Pi4. For videos in the slides you should definitely go with a Pi4.