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Organise drivers for the arena screens #735

Closed RealOrangeOne closed 2 years ago

RealOrangeOne commented 2 years ago

We have screens around the arena to display live information, these need something to drive them.

In the past this has been Raspberry Pis displaying a web-page. If this is used again then the following things need doing:

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comp/arena/screens-drivers

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PeterJCLaw commented 2 years ago

If we can get the Pis to me I'm happy to do the checking & setup for this. The Pis are in the container, so whenever we next visit it might be useful to extract them.

RealOrangeOne commented 2 years ago

The Pi's are easily accessible in the container. I can frequently get to the container, the more difficult bit is getting them to you from there.

PeterJCLaw commented 2 years ago

This afternoon I've done a fresh deploy of https://github.com/PeterJCLaw/srcomp-kiosk/ onto my own Pi 2 using the latest Raspberry Pi OS Desktop (version from 2022-01-28, without recommended packages) and that worked fine (very lightweight testing by showing the "outside" page). I've done some small updates too, so we're now using Firefox's built-in --kiosk mode rather than the custom profile deploy mechanism we were using previously.

Most of this task is therefore still outstanding, though this gives confidence that the software we have should work fine despite several years without actually being used.

PeterJCLaw commented 2 years ago

I've just been through https://github.com/PeterJCLaw/srcomp-kiosk/ to update (and extend) its documentation so that hopefully it's now a bit more approachable to others.

sedders123 commented 2 years ago

I have collected the box of Pis from Jake (https://github.com/srobo/inventory/commit/c39448020013b32c63dd68c48c91a6e755ae3bae) so can look at getting these set up

PeterJCLaw commented 2 years ago

@sedders123 can we call this done? Now that https://github.com/PeterJCLaw/srcomp-kiosk/pull/11 and https://github.com/PeterJCLaw/srcomp-kiosk/pull/16 are merged I think the prep aspect here is done?

sedders123 commented 2 years ago

These are deployed in the venue now