TV Billboard for a school

[Krilus]

I may have an opportunity with a private school, they are looking for a solution for TV Billboard, if I understand they want to just display school events and stuff on one or maybe multiple TVs.

Anyone got any experience/wisdom to share?

Thank you!

K.

 

[Markverhyden]

The first thing you should do is get from them a detailed explanation of what they want. How many screens? If multiple screens the same content or different based on location? Such as one in the cafeteria might have menus and nutrition information, while one in the main lobby might have schedule and contact information.

There are literal hundred's of possible options for a solution.

 

[Krilus]

Yea for sure,

I assume there will be hundreads, was hoping to get a feel for the better solutions out there that people have had success with.

Thanks for the feedback though

The first thing you should do is get from them a detailed explanation of what they want. How many screens? If multiple screens the same content or different based on location? Such as one in the cafeteria might have menus and nutrition information, while one in the main lobby might have schedule and contact information.

There are literal hundred's of possible options for a solution.

 

[Markverhyden]

Personally I've setup a new health club with Apple TV's for each screen. Used different loops for each station depending activity. But to manage that you need Apple equipment. The Apple boxes were hard wired to improve content delivery

For actual schools I've done installs of large touch screens, such as Sharp LN 60" and 80", using ThinkCentre M900 for delivery content. But these were for instructional purposes in the class room. Wired and wireless on the network. Site said they wanted to also deliver school wide content but had not budgeted for that.

Done work for other companies and it was similar. Such as systems in waiting rooms, malls, banks using SFF systems like the M900 mentioned above. Those were wired or wireless as well. As expected the wired connections are more reliable. They all used proprietary software for content delivery. Either self developed, like from http://www.itouchinc.com/, or sold like Netkey

This is why I said you need to get more details. Basically develop the scope, possible future uses and, most important, budget. Being a school I doubt they are going to want to spend big bucks. Some of these new TV's will take a USB stick or SD card and just play the content using the remote. See that all of the time in small retail shops. And you can use a Raspberry Pi as well, plenty of projects in that ecosystem.

 

[Krilus]

Great info,

I'm currently looking at Screenbeam which looks like a pretty robust system that will allow me to expand if required.
The only drawback so far is that it doesnt support iOS; however I dont know if its an iOS environment or not.

Checking out this video right now:

Appreciate the help.

 

[TazUk]

A friend of mine looks after several estate agents and they use Raspberry Pi's running Screenly to display the property information on TV's. Maybe worth a look

https://www.screenly.io/