Feb 20 2018 - Using the REST API for automating video wall configuration
Using the REST API unleashes the true power of info-beamer hosted. This blog post describes how it can be used to automatically create configurations for synced video walls. Read more...
Apr 20 2015 - Unix filesystem semantics or 'How to foolproof your syncing process'
Sometimes you want play a sequence of videos or images. Making sure they are not deleted while playing them might be tricky. It might add complexity to your process of syncing media files to info-beamer. info-beamer 0.9 and later help you make this a lot easier. Read more...
Feb 16 2015 - A visual watchdog for the PI
Sometimes visualisations go wrong and get stuck for various reasons. It is useful to be able to detect and react to that. Read more...
Jan 29 2015 - Understanding garbage collection
Having an eye on performance is critical when developing visualizations using info-beamer for the Raspberry PI. One of the things you have to consider when writing your code is garbage collection. Read more...
Oct 26 2014 - Taking screenshots on the Raspberry PI
Want to share something you created on your PI and could figure out the best way to create a screenshot? This small blog post will show you an easy way to create snapshots. Screenshots work both in X and in the linux console since the tool directly captures the screen using the lowlevel Dispmanx API. Read more...
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