Usage is very easy after you have setup the server at local network. The viewer is simply a web page so you need just computer with a browser to setup your displays.

Features

Can display easily slides from browser, you just need network connection, laptop with some browser
Output resolution does not matter, all contents are automatically scaled from full hd or half-hd as source material.
Slides:
- Supports multiple screens/displays, for example info/kiosk and big and side screens can have different shows.
- Has good text and image support, while background is shared per slide bundle
  - You can also have different image as background, just put custom image at editor to own layer
  - Slide can be as well only single image
- Supports web content as slide, with custom scale factory
  - can be useful for timetables, tournament brackets... etc even pdf document loads
Video support:
- Slide background can has .mp4 embed video loop, half-hd preferably for performance.
- It has Overlay/OnDemand layer for local obs live stream, supports sound as well, buffer delay about 2 seconds.
Easy-to-use editor for slides with support of adding text and images to slide
Finnish and English language support, sets automatically from browser language.

Setup

run npm install
copy config-default.js to config.js
check config settings and if you don't need live stream support from local network using OBS, set mediaServer to false
run npm start

Default usage

Viewer is located at: http://127.0.0.1:8000
Admin interface is located at: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin
Defaults to user: admin, pass: admin
It's highly encouraged to change the defaults to something else!

Local stream support for OBS

Works only when config has mediaServer set to true if you have changed the default port from 8000, the admin interface can be found port +1

Stream admin interface is located at: http://127.0.0.1:8001/admin Defaults to same admin username and password, which you connect to admin interface as well.

at OBS go to: Settings -> Stream
set following options:

Setting	Value
Stream Type:	Custom Streaming Server
URL:	`rtmp://127.0.0.1/live`
Stream key:	`STREAM_NAME`

Environment variables

ENV	default	Usage
PORT	8000	Server listen port
HOST	127.0.0.1	Host or ip from where to server is externally accessible
ADMIN_USER	admin	Username to access admin interface
ADMIN_PASS	admin	Password for the admin interface

Dockerfile

Dockerfile is provided for building a docker container. Docker container accepts the same ENV variables as the standard setup (see them above).

docker build -t reaby/infoscreen .
docker run -p 8000:8000 -e HOST=infoscreen.lan -e PORT=8000 -e ADMIN_USER=admin -e ADMIN_PASS=secret --name infoscreen reaby/infoscreen

README.md

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