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What is the best way to get a web-based dashboard -- Castor, for example -- displaying on a wall-mounted television? Is it possible to do it through an AppleTV?
by nrjames 10y ago
What is the best way to get a web-based dashboard -- Castor, for example -- displaying on a wall-mounted television? Is it possible to do it through an AppleTV?
- dyladan 10y agoI'd use a raspberry pi set up as a kiosk. If you google 'raspberry pi kiosk mode' there should be a fair handful of simple tutorials.
- nrjames 10y agoAwesome - thanks for the advice!
- jonasmaturana 10y agoHi nrjames, I'm working on a small service that will let you do that using a Raspberry Pi 3 and about 10 minutes of your time. Would you be interested in super early access? It would be awesome to get some feedback as I'm trying to solve that exact problem: Get a dashboard on a HD tv in an easy way.
- _joel 10y agoAgreed, they're cheap and functional. We have a couple powering a Grafana dashboard and a Dashing one. It's pretty trivial to set them up using Raspbian and create a script that loads the browser full screen and then the dashboard of choice. If you need to display more content on fewer devices then Grafana can also do playlists so that you can rotate content, plus there are some browser plugins to let you automate tab focus (so a few tabs with a dash each and one displayed every 30 seconds, for example).
- thesehands 10y agocurrently using the web based browser in our Panasonic TVs in the office.
- vbernat 10y agoI have a pet-project for this purpose: https://github.com/vincentbernat/dashkiosk/ https://github.com/vincentbernat/dashkiosk/. While it should work with any browser, my preferred way is to use an Android HDMI stick. Same price as a Pi, far more powerful (2D/3D acceleration, JIT compilation for Javascript). There is a companion Android app.