setrofim / billboard

Billboard that displays messages against an image background.

billboard

Periodically pulls images and text from Reddit and displays them full-screen. Inspired by

http://imgur.com/a/Io3xi

Note

This requires PyQt4 to be installed on the system. It seems it currently cannot be deployed with pip, so it's not mentioned in the dependencies.

TODO

• Currently a bunch of stuff is hard-coded that should be configurable (e.g. subreddits to pull images/text from)
• Add more sources (currently, only Reddit)
• An ability to remotely send images/text to the billboard for immediate display
• Take screenshot of the current display and serve it over HTTP
• regex-based bad words filtering
• Support Python 2
• Switch to PyQt5
• ...

LICENSE

3-clause BSD