Jan 04 2019 - The 35C3 info beamer setup
As is tradition, I've been running the info screens at the anual 35C3 conference again. Read more...
May 10 2018 - info-beamer hosted CEC support
The next info-beamer hosted OS will add easy CEC support. Read more...
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...
Jan 05 2018 - Remote control interfaces
info-beamer hosted now allows a package to include a custom remote control interface that can be used to control the devices running that package in real time. Read more...
Jan 04 2018 - The 34C3 info beamer setup
I've been running an installation at the yearly chaos communication congress again. Here's how it worked. Read more...
Jan 09 2017 - The 33C3 info beamer setup
At the recent 33C3 conference in Hamburg I was running the information screens in all halls as well as on all venue TV screens again. Similar to the last 3 years I have been using info-beamer hosted for that. Here is a small summary and links to the source code. Read more...
Feb 29 2016 - A new way of organizing code and assets
info-beamer pi 0.9.5 will add a new optional way of organizing code and content of a node. This post describes how it works and what's possible with the new nested node feature. 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...
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...
Nov 02 2014 - External data sources: A bitcoin ticker
Often you have external dynamic information that you want to show in an info-beamer visualization. Since info-beamer itself doesn't provide an API to (for example) use HTTP you might wonder how to do this. info-beamer makes this very easy. It's also language agnostic. So you can use the language of your choice to fetch information and then make it available to info-beamer. Here's a pretty basic bitcoin ticker that shows how to do this. Read more...
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