Very Large Alert Message Text and RaspberryPi/ASUS TinkerBoard Compatability
furriephillips opened this issue · comments
Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask this - sorry if it's not!
I'm knocking up a lightweight, digital-signage system using ASUS TinkerBoards, as they have the power to show Power BI dashboards, hop between multiple browser tabs and stream video.
The last thing that's in my brief - which I haven't yet achieved, is the ability to print very large text alert messages to the screens, as an oevrlay/pop-up, so that staff across the office can easily read them at a distance. The sort of thing would be "Happy Birthday Chris - There Are Cakes In The Kitchen!"
Is there support for the version of Debian that is currently the default on the TinkerBoard and the architechture?
linaro@tinkerboard:~$ uname -a
Linux tinkerboard 4.4.71+ #1 SMP Wed Nov 15 14:31:48 CST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux
linaro@tinkerboard:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
9.4
If it's likely that I can get Pullover working on Tinkerboard, would we be able to request particular formatting of messages that have a certain profile/status? We'd be looking for something that showed on top of everything else, used the whole screen real-estate (or a configurable message area) and had something like a dark/black background and a definable primary colour text (perhaps based on the Pushover alert level)? Obviously, we'd not want to tread on other user's toes, so perhaps a toggleable setting for richer-formatting? If this was within the realms of possibility, please would you let me know what sort of contribution might be required, to make it a reality? My coding skills are not great, but I would be willing to help in any way that might add value.
Cheers,
ChrisP
Pullover is based on NW.js and available for linux (you can download linux builds under releases). However to show very big notifications you would need to hack it: https://github.com/cgrossde/Pullover/blob/master/src/app/services/Notifier.js
This code is responsible to show the notifications, you could adapt it to open a new window make it fullscreen and display the notification there ;) Good luck