Conducting a Digital Signage CONCERTO - Jason Whitaker, Transylvania University

Conducting a Digital Signage CONCERTO

Jason WhitakerTransylvania University

Open source digital signage solution LAMP stack (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) Web based – just point a browser at the

server and go www.concerto-signage.com Active online community

What is Concerto?

What does it look like?

Web based admin interface Create users, groups, screens and feeds Feeds contain content Screens are identified by MAC address Multiple feeds can be assigned to a screen Groups can be assigned rights to place

content into a feed No built in AD integration, but has CAS…

How do you administer it?

Don’t worry about finding hardware to fit their “Live CD” – just use a browser

RSS feeds are supported, but URL must be inserted into the database manually

Serialized PHP array is used to markup certain content, must build by hand and insert into database manually at this time

Creating templates from scratch looks daunting

Password reset doesn’t appear to work

Gotchas

Conducting a Digital Signage CONCERTO

Jason WhitakerTransylvania University