jr-k / obscreen

The world's least popular open source digital signage project. But it's free and working.

Obscreen

🧑‍🎄 Open to feature request and pull request

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About

Use a RaspberryPi (Lite OS) to show a fullscreen slideshow (Kiosk-mode)

Features:

• Dead simple chromium webview
• Clear GUI
• Very few dependencies
• SQLite database
• Plugin system
• Feature flags to enable complex use cases (Fleet/User/Playlist management)
• No stupid pricing plan
• No cloud
• No telemetry

Cookbooks

🔴 I want to power a RaspberryPi and automatically see my slideshow on a screen connected to it and manage the slideshow

🔵 I just want a slideshow manager and I'll deal with screen and browser myself

Discussion

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Troubleshoot

Videos aren't playing why ?

This is "normal" behavior. Videos do not play automatically in Chrome because it requires user interaction with the page (a simple click inside the webpage is enough). If you open the console, you'll see the error: Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: play() failed because the user didn't interact with the document first...

To resolve this, you need to use the Chrome flag --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required. When connecting a Raspberry Pi with Obscreen Player autorun, this issue doesn't occur because the flag is handled automatically for you.You need to enable this flag yourself otherwise.