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Jason Whitaker, Director of IT at Transylvania University, on how Transy utilizes the Concerto open source digital signage solution. Presentation delivered at 2011 AIKCU Technology Conference.
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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
