DigitalSignage

📺 Simple self-hosted digital signage software for turning screens into beautiful content displays

Screenshots

Digital Display Preview

Administrator Panel: Changing the widget layout

Administrator Panel: Slides inside a slideshow

Demo

Use the demo website at http://digitaldisplay.herokuapp.com (username: demo, password: demo)

How to Run:

1. Set up a MongoDB installation locally (or in the cloud) and create a digitaldisplay database

2. Run the setup utility using

npm run setup

and specify the URI to your database.

1. Install dependencies and run the program

npm install
npm run dev

Updating the software

Assuming the software was cloned from this github repository, it is possible to use the included script

npm run update

which pulls the latest stable version of digital-signage from github, installs dependencies and re-builds the software.

Features

• ✅ Automatic refresh on content change (you should never need to touch a display once set up!)
• ✅ Totally modular, with a comprehensive widget management system (adding a widget is very simple!)
• ✅ Multiple built-in widgets to get you started:

  • ✅ Slideshow widget

    

  • ✅ Weather widget

    

  • ✅ “Congratulations” widget

    

  • ✅ Youtube embed widget

  • ✅ Web (iframe) widget

    

  • ✅ Standalone image widget

    

  • ✅ Announcements widget

    

  • ✅ List widget (can be used a directory, time sheet, etc.)

    

• ✅ Flexible, responsive widget grid that allows you to drag, drop and resize widgets
• ✅ Versatile slideshow system that allows multiple slideshows, multiple slide types (images, videos, youtube, web, etc.) inside the same display with variable durations, titles and descriptions for each slide!
• ✖ Support for multiple displays (in progress)

Adding a new widget

Given the highly modular structure of this program, implementing a new widget is a simple task! Simply follow these easy steps to get started:

1. Create a new folder inside the ​widgets/​ folder, name it according to your widget’s name

 /
  actions/
  api/
  assets/
  components/
  helpers/
  pages/
  styles/
  widgets/
    .
    .
    .
    (new) MyWidget/
    widget_list.js
    base_widget.js
    index.js

1. Create an index file inside the newly created folder called index.js ​(extending the​ base_widget ​class) as follows:

import BaseWidget from '../base_widget'

export default class MyWidget extends BaseWidget {
  constructor() {
    super({
      name: 'MyWidget',
      version: '0.1',
      icon: ['my-icon'], // Shown in the admin panel
      defaultData: {
         // Your implementation here
      }
    })
  }
}

The widget’s icon should come from FontAwesome.

1. Implement two React components: Options (renders the dialog that will allow the administrator to change the widget’s configuration) and Widget (renders the user-facing side widget that will be displayed on the TV), return them from getter functions that you add to your index.js file:

export default class MyWidget extends BaseWidget {
  // ...

  get Widget() {
    return (<div>Your implementation here</div>)
  }

  get Options() {
    return (<div>Your implementation here</div>)
  }

  // ...
}

1. Finally, when done implementing the widget, register it by adding its folder’s name to the widgets/widget_list.js​ file

module.exports = ['slideshow', 'weather', 'congrats', 'youtube', 'web',
    'image', 'list', 'announcement', /* new */ 'MyWidget']

1. Restart the server to see the new widget appear on the administrator panel