[vcf-midatlantic] other museum TV options: Roku box

Jason Perkins perkins.jason at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 12:02:35 EDT 2016


If you want to simply use these for signage there's a free server /
client called Xibo, we use it at the school where I work.

-J

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Systems Glitch via vcf-midatlantic
<vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>> The trouble with Pi is the can corrupt their boot disk...
>
> As stated though, you can knock that out with a read-only root FS (what I do on most embedded systems) or a small battery backup. I've seen several Li-Ion based UPS boards (hats? plates? shields? I don't know what they're called) for the Raspberry Pi that, along with either a script or a kernel driver, will gracefully shut the Pi down when either the battery is low or just whenever main power has been offline for a predetermined time.
>
> I think someone already mentioned it would be cool to get IXR to help and do something for the VCFED blog about it.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan



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