Exploring digital signage platforms
Building a digital signage system for advertising needs more knowledge in implementing the system. Some companies and communities have built good digital signage platforms. In this section, we will review some platforms that can be deployed on the Raspberry Pi.
1Play
1Play is a digital signage system based on the Raspberry Pi (Pi Zero and Pi 1,2, and 3). It supports images, videos, RTSP video streaming, and HTML5 content. The content is pushed from a cloud server. You can also manage all content from a system. This platform is not free but you can try 1Play with a 30-day free trial. If you're interested, you can visit the official website at https://1play.tv/.
Screenly
Screenly is a digital signage platform-based web application. They provide commercial and open source editions. All ad content such as image, video, and links can be managed easily. Their official website is https://www.screenly.io. For the open source edition, you can read the installation...