willay
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I want to display a webpage on a TV at work, I'm trying to avoid connecting it up by a long VGA cable and thought perhaps this would be a good application for a Intel NUC or one of them android TV stick things? what are the current options out there? a Intel NUC does seem very overkill for just displaying a page.
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DaveyLC
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Banggood does the Android sticks for about £30 and a full windows 7 PC stick for about £70..
Or you can use a Google ChromeCast and cast a tab from a chrome browser but that does mean having a PC running.
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pow
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Would a chromecast running www.greenscreen.io do the job?
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Nismo
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if its a cabling issue, CAT5 to VGA convertor?
1080P Asus Nettop for £83?
http://www.ebuyer.com/718137-asus-eeebox-eb1033-mini-desktop-pc-eb1033-b013e
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willay
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greenscreen looks good but unsure how mature the project is?
nismo - cabling aint an issue, in fact I dont think there be any cat5 there but we do have a nice shiney new ruckus wireless network.
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Bart
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Intel Compute USB stick: http://www.nigelohara.com/intel-compute-stick-win81-hdmi-boxstck1a32wfcr-pid180606.html?gclid=CPq4s8mh_cYCFfHJtAodEIoMDw
Windows 8.1 although that might be upgradable to 10?
Not bad for £100
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Richie
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
greenscreen looks good but unsure how mature the project is?
nismo - cabling aint an issue, in fact I dont think there be any cat5 there but we do have a nice shiney new ruckus wireless network.
Been going since Mid 2014 and is pretty robust and a good support network on github.
As long as whatever you want to display can display within an iframe you are good to go. Taking the piss with takeovers is hilarious 
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pow
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Richie - have you deployed it? Can you lend me a hand with how you set it up - ie the server side setup - what flavour of linux (I use ubuntu server 14.04 UTS for the 3 linux servers I have here), what to install?
[Edited on 28-07-2015 by pow]
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DaveyLC
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quote:
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Richie - have you deployed it? Can you lend me a hand with how you set it up - ie the server side setup - what flavour of linux (I use ubuntu server 14.04 UTS for the 3 linux servers I have here), what to install?
[Edited on 28-07-2015 by pow]
Why go through all that Agro? Why not just cast a tab from Chrome?
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pow
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Because this is a set and forget solution for lots of screens. Bodge it Dave 
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Dom
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RPi and Chromium; only downside is the lack of GPU acceleration but unless the webpage is filled with JS animations/videos/gifs then it should be fine.
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Intel Compute USB stick..
This isn't a bad shout tbh; the linux variant is around £70/80.
[Edited on 28-07-2015 by Dom]
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willay
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quote:
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Originally posted by pow
Richie - have you deployed it? Can you lend me a hand with how you set it up - ie the server side setup - what flavour of linux (I use ubuntu server 14.04 UTS for the 3 linux servers I have here), what to install?
[Edited on 28-07-2015 by pow]
Why go through all that Agro? Why not just cast a tab from Chrome?
I guess I could use a VM to cast the tabs, however this has a nice interface that we could give to certain staff if we wanted to use the broadcast feature
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Richie
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
Richie - have you deployed it? Can you lend me a hand with how you set it up - ie the server side setup - what flavour of linux (I use ubuntu server 14.04 UTS for the 3 linux servers I have here), what to install?
[Edited on 28-07-2015 by pow]
I haven't deployed it personally but our Unix/Linux chaps have it running for tickers and alerts for the service desks. Will ask them for guidance on it
If I remember correctly from talking about it you need to be careful with giving people details to it because there's no authentication mechanism leaving it open to abuse. At work it's on a private SSID on an isolated network bridged to a lab environment that runs the VM's. But they demonstrated how they can take control over all of them in case of a fire alarm or major incident ect - but they used various animated GIF's to take the piss
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pow
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I'd run it on it's own ringfenced VLAN with a hidden SSID here, any guidance on what to use would be greatly received!
[Edited on 29-07-2015 by pow]
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In terms of setup if you already have linux boxes you could put Docker on one and then just start up a container with greenscreen such as https://github.com/tomologic/docker-greenscreen
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willay
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Thanks for the link Rob! As much as I like greenscreen there is a push here to use some Pi's, we got one of each (pi and chromecast) so might have to see which one will be better...
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